![]() In “The Golden Palace,” which turns a domestic comedy into a workplace comedy (albeit a workplace in which the characters also live), Blanche ( Rue McClanahan), Rose ( Betty White) and Sophia ( Estelle Getty) buy a hotel they have been assured is a good investment but which turns out to be a bad one, even though it is a well-equipped beachfront property. Set in an age of padded shoulders and roomy pants, it is an old-fashioned, multicamera affair, to the point even of the cultural references, which may require recourse to the encyclopedia: Gordon McRae, Leona Helmsley, Señor Wences, Jimmy Swaggart, Paul Prudhomme, Chia Pet, the musical “Li’l Amber,” “I Dream of Jeannie” and “That Girl.” New to Hulu as of Monday is “The Golden Palace” - 24 episodes dropped at once - which shares a theme song and three actresses with “The Golden Girls,” a show about three widows and a divorcee sharing a house in Miami.
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