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Every perfect rom-com should contain at least one dance scene set to disco music. Palm Springs contains two.
Palm Springs, a rom-com you should watch immediately on Hulu, also hinges on a sci-fi concept that isn’t complete gobbledygook. The movie is set at a wedding where the two main characters are stuck in a time loop. They repeat the same wedding day — with its deluded parents, out of control best friends and grandmas saying judgy things — over and over again.
But Palm Springs isn’t a wedding movie. It definitely isn’t Groundhog Day 2.0. It’s a subversive rom-com, where two drifting strangers meet at their lowest points. Through meaningful human connection (and time folding in on itself) they learn something about how to move forward and function in life. In other words, Palm Springs is an existential crisis wedding movie.
Palm Springs stars Andy Samberg as Nyles, a contradictorily energetic and downcast man whose vapid girlfriend is terrible at giving wedding speeches. As Nyles slides through the festivities, he takes surprising side-steps — we don’t find out every single thing about his character in one efficient introductory scene.
