‘Palm Springs’: Here’s What That Final Scene Meant

You don’t need a degree in quantum physics to understand that very last scene

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(This article contains big spoilers for Hulu’s “Palm Springs,” including details about the ending. In case that wasn’t clear from the headline.)

Unlike something like “Dark” on Netflix, which is built to tie your brain in knots with its time shenanigans, Hulu’s “Palm Springs” is more about making you laugh and feel some nice human emotions. So even while it’s teasing the audience with some quantum mechanics, it doesn’t really get too far into the weeds on how its “Groundhog Day”-ish time loop works.

That’s probably a good thing. Getting too mired in the details of quantum theory and multiverses and all that stuff would just be a distraction.

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