Abe Sylvia, the creator of Apple TV+’s , had for years been trying to make a show that takes place in Palm Beach, and he finally cracked it with the Kristen Wiig-led comedy series about a woman who strives, and will do anything, to be a part of high society in the exclusive community. The writing, the star-studded cast (including Carol Burnett, Allison Janney, Laura Dern and Ricky Martin) and the vibrant production and costume design all helped the show resonate with Academy voters, who awarded the series 10 Emmy nominations, including best comedy. Below, Sylvia talks filming in Los Angeles, how the script was tailored when Burnett came on board and why multiple seasons were always the endgame.
Very little of the original novel remains in the show — spoiler alert! The book is wonderful, I should add, and certainly was the jumping-off point for this iconoclastic woman who’s sort of a bull in a china shop and does things that are not in her self-interest. ..
. But for a series to have ongoing legs, sometimes you have to really build out the world because we didn’t envision this as a limited series. And I’d tried my hand several times in developing Palm Beach-centric shows.
It was a world I’ve been wanting to explore for a long time, and I finally found the way to do it. I hadn’t seen it before. And I’m obsessed with the photos by Slim Aarons.
He always said, “I photograph beautiful people in beautiful places, doing beautiful things,” but I think the reason th.