Can anyone recommend a show that's pure anarchic comedy, without characters mooning after each other, engaging in cloying emotional arcs or trying to teach lessons? Something like Arrested Development, Police Squad, Trial & Error, Year Of The Rabbit, Another Era and Ten-Year-Old Tom?
I'll try to avoid spoilers, but maybe they can't totally be avoided. I just finished watching Palm Springs and, while I liked it, it took me awhile to figure out my thoughts about the ending: I'm pretty sure bad things are going to happen to the main characters after Palm Spring ends.
I think the movie doesn't realize what it's foreshadowing. It goes for a joke ending, with the family that owns the pool showing up, but that actually highlighted the difference between the endings of Palm Springs and Groundhog Day.
In Groundhog Day, I think Bill Murray's character learned that every day is precious and that little things matter. In Palm Springs, they spent so many days (years? Centuries?) trapped in the time loop, being reckless and killing themselves without a second thought, that I don't think they'll be able to function in a world where they're vulnerable. They don't appreciate each day. They don't appreciate the little things. They're going to have to relearn what it's like to be vulnerable, what it means when every day is different and there are actual consquences (like the family returning).
Honestly, the movies and endings were very similar, but the lessons one character learned fill me with hope and the lessons the other characters learned fill me with dread.
What are your thoughts on this? (Also, what other "stuck in a time loop" movies are there? Run Lola Run maybe counts, but all the rest I can think of are Sci Fi, so it's not an unexplained phenomenon.)