Palm Springs

The Rom Com Rewrite

It is August, which is supposed to be summertime in the UK (where we record from), so Lisa and Charles Adrian have picked a sunny rom com for this month’s episode. If you haven’t seen this film, don’t read any further! Don’t listen to this episode yet! Watch the film! Enjoy the surprises! Then come back to read on and listen. You will thank us.

Palm Springs

Year: 2020

Screenplay by: Andy Siara

Based on a story by: Max Barbakow and Andy Siara

Director: Max Barbakow

Stars: Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti, J.K. Simmons

Show notes:

A reminder that this podcast is all spoilers all the time and this film is so delightful to watch unspoiled that we urge you, if possible, to watch it without knowing anything about it (as we did).

We loved this film. We had to work really hard to find anything to fix. We hope you like it as much as we did.

The short, spoiler-filled plot summary for this film on imdb.com can be found here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9484998/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

In this episode we reference (and this is, in itself, a HUGE SPOILER) Groundhog Day (1993) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/), Russian Doll (which Charles Adrian calls “Russian Dolls”) (2019 – ) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7520794/), Love Wedding Repeat (which Charles Adrian calls “that other wedding thing that was on Netflix recently”) (2020) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5096470/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_7) and The Good Place (2016 – 2020) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4955642/).

We record these episodes over the internet. Sometimes the audio is not perfect. We apologise for that.

Music in this episode is by Martin Zaltz Austwick (martinzaltzaustwick.com). Artwork is by Lisa Findley.

Thank you for listening!