<em>Palm Springs </em>Is the Comedy of the Summer
The new Hulu movie is about feeling endlessly trapped—and finding happiness anyway.
is set during a never-ending day. Sorry to give away the big plot point, which comes some 15 minutes into Max Barbakow’s wonderful new comedy, but that premise feels pertinent today in a way that it didn’t when the movie premiered at six months ago. The film belongs to the growing canon of time-loop stories, which ensnare their characters in a repeating cycle from which there’s no discernible escape. Life proceeds normally enough, but, the subtext is practically text: We are all trapped.
