AppleTV+ dropped their new series “Palm Royale” in March and I don’t think they’ve realized what a cultural revolution they may be creating.
In its simplest terms, “Palm Royale” is like “Gossip Girl” all grown up but set in 1969. The cast is made up of olderish women (Kristen Wiig, Leslie Bibb, Laura Dern, Allison Janney, et al.) who exemplify Floridian royalty and the desperate social climbing and clinging of pre-cell phone society. While there are flirtations with the feminist movement within the storyline, there is a significant lack of woke tropes and eye-roll-inducing word vomit, which makes this show very watchable.
If you remove the soap opera storylines of murder, marriage, and mayhem, “Palm Royale” is a pretty inspirational show for women seeking to become the next generation of modern trad wife—or something close to that, at least.
It’s almost like a playbook.
One of the major issues with the older trad wife or “housewife” lifestyle was the lack of interesting things going on. Housewives across America were reduced to psychosis-inducing boredom and a total lack of self-identity, leading to both the creation of Valium and the feminist movement. But things seemed far from boring and beige in the fictional depiction “Palm Royale.”
Despite the frantic need for growth in social (and financial) capital, the female high society characters of this show are powerful, purposeful, and far more organized than those portraying the pro-choice liberal ladies brigade (led by Dern). They host philanthropic galas that feel more like dinner shows, designed to cushion their own bottom lines. (RELATED: ROOKE: Conservative Men – Focus On Finding A Good Wife, Not A ‘Trad Wife’)
They play matchmakers. They work their designer-clad butts off to end up in the “Shiny Sheet” tabloid pages for all the “good” they do. They basically do more than most modern activists and they look fabulous doing it.
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— KAY SMYTHE (@KaySmythe) February 22, 2024
The modern trad wife movement is largely targeted at Millennials who feel out-of-place in the cyber-heavy reality of the illiterate Gen Z … but we also feel grossed out by how cringe Gen X women can typically be. We exist in this middle ground where we’re disenfranchised by modern society but see no one, anywhere, offering a solution other than to try and exit it entirely. (RELATED: Dear Kay: What Happened To Real Men? Are There Any Left?)
Except for “Palm Royale.”
This series, once controlled for the cheating and murder parts, should be what the Millennial semi-trad wife aspires to in our older years: wealth that we can perpetuate by throwing parties because we’re bored, our children have left home and are independent so why worry, and our knees aren’t quite up to our glam version of homesteading anymore (but we can still dance).
Ignore the all-star line-up of liberal cast members. This series should be essential viewing for all women. I can’t wait to see how it ends — not the storyline, the style and dazzle of it all.