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Palm Royalewears its time period like a sweetheart-neckline cocktail dress.
Every element has been researched, designed, and presented with the utmost care.
Something that should complete the panorama as perfectly as a splash of Angostura bitters in a Manhattan cocktail.
Nobody smokes onPalm Royale, which is set in Florida in 1969.
This is not right, artistically or historically.
I enjoy the heck out ofPalm Royale, but half these characters should be smoking.
And by smoking I dont mean they should take one or two puffs, then stub it out.
If you catch a glimpse of their dreams, there should be smoking in them.
Mad Mengot this right.
Righter than any period drama made for TV during the preceding two decades.
This is a separate but related discussion.
Again, if its set in period, in your mind the entire thing should smell faintly of tobacco.
Actors dont smoke real cigarettes on set, by the way.
Cinematographers have always loved what smoke does to light and shadow and the way it frames actors.
Humphrey Bogart had a hundred different ways to dangle a cigarette from his lips.
Bette Davis was a jabber.
Burt Lancaster drew in the air with his ember.
NBC madeMiami Vicego smoke-free starting in season three.
Its hardly a coordinated movement, though.
Smoke added to the story and images.
One of which probably had a cigarette in it.
