Andy Samberg and the Lonely Island crew have been around Film and Television for nearly two decades, yet their movies never hit the big screen like they want them to. Their films Hot Rod and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping suffered below-average reviews and box office turnouts.

Well, that has all changed with Hulu’s hit movie Palm Springs starring Andy Samberg (Nyles) and Cristin Milioti (Sarah). The movie boasts a 94 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and recently won The Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy. And it’s fair to say the movie deserves that high rating. It is great! The film takes on the played out Time Loop genre and spins it in its own creative, original way. Instead of a good deed like in Groundhogs Day, endless studying of quantum physics is actually the answer to escape the loop.

The movie’s two characters are, in their own ways, at the lowest points of their lives. Nyles attends a wedding with his current girlfriend, who cheats on him at that same wedding. To make it even worse, Nyles will wake up next to her for as long as he is in the loop. On the other hand, Sarah is an alcoholic whose career is going nowhere and is sisters to the bride. Nyles might get to wake up to his cheating girlfriend each morning, but Sarah gets to wake up to the groom-to-be. Not exactly how you want to start your sister’s wedding day.

The movie continues its unique spin on the Time Loop story with the character of Nyles. Nyles has already been in the Time Loop for what seems to be years before we are introduced to him through Sarah. As the audience, we are experiencing the world at the same pace as Sarah, with Nyles acting as a guide. It’s a quick and easy way to throw out all of the overdone tropes on how to escape the Loop situation. In previous iterations of Time Loop films, we are experiencing the new world with our characters. But a veteran of sorts in Nyles allows for the story to worry less about figuring out that the characters are in a repetitive day and more about trying to escape it.