Skip the first 11 paragraphs that are all just complaining about what a slog the series is and you will get to the last two paragraphs that the headline refers too. (Saved you a click)

At the very least, audiences who plod through Palm Royale Season 2 will be rewarded with a predictably excellent nonagenarian Burnett villain performance (ironically, the protagonist of a far better new Apple show, Pluribus, was named after her). The comedy legend manages to imbue her scheming grand dame character with enough twinkly-eyed mischievousness and unexpected pathos that she manages to transcend her underwritten scenes in a way that even her highly capable co-stars cannot.

Watching Norma sing The Sound of Music’s “Something Good” under a blue spotlight is almost enough to give the season a pass, well-decorated flaws and all. On the whole, though, it’s hardly the vacation we were promised.