Palm Springs is the perfect quarantine movie.

Story

Palm Springs follows Nyles and Sarah, two strangers who meet at Sarah’s sister’s wedding and end up in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over.

The premise of the movie is very simple and that’s why it works. The premise allows the writers to build on it and create an out of the box story and creative ways to tell said story. It also allows for comedy as the situation in and of itself is absolutely ridiculous. (In a good way.)

Actors

Given the structure of the story, the movie is anchored by two people, Andy Samberg who plays Nyles and Cristin Milioti who plays Sarah. The two of their characters serve different purposes, one of them being the audience surrogate while the other delivers exposition. And this is one of those times that spoken exposition makes sense as Sarah needs things explained to her.

That being said, there are more to these performances that meet the eye. They’re surprising deep which given the story is both expected and unexpected. It’s also a bonus that you have likeable actors with chemistry even though their characters aren’t likeable people, which goes in the plus column for me. Following happy-go-lucky people, while they are stuck in a time-loop would get a little boring no?