andy samberg is nyles, a hawaiian—shirted wastrel who's been reliving the same wedding day, not his,rah, the sister of the bride who finds herself unwittingly dragged into the same temporal vortex in which nyles is trapped, about which she is not best pleased. she's not alone, withjk simmons, who was similarly dragged into nyles' private hell, seeking revenge with a crossbow. you don't have to be a film historian to get a sense of deja vu, or to go, "hang on, isn't thatjust groundhog day but with more people dragged into the time loop?" the answer is yes and no. yes, palm springs owes a debt to the �*90s classic in which bill murray woke up on the same day over and over again while gradually falling in love with co—star andie macdowell... wait, stop, there is a bomb in the cake. ..but rather than simply replicating or ripping off groundhog day, which itself owed a debt to such diverse sources as it's a wonderful life and anne rice's novel the vampire lestat, palm springs takes that premise and runs with it, acknowledging and even joking about some of its predecessors' philisophical c