The women of Palm Beach are so back.
Following its juicy, scandal-filled and Emmy-nominated first season, "Palm Royale" has returned for season 2, and there are even more twists and turns this time around.
"Season 1 being what it was, this is times 10, I think," Kristen Wiig, executive producer and star of the hit show, told "Good Morning America." "As far as story, intrigue -- it's sexy, it's funny, there's lots of surprises."
Wiig's co-star Carol Burnett added, "I'm not gonna give away a lot, but there's a lot of secrets that will come out."
Ahead of the second season, Wiig, Burnett and the rest of the "Palm Royale" cast sat down with "GMA" to discuss what's in store.
In season 1, audiences were introduced to Wiig's character, Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons, an ambitious woman who schemes her way into securing a seat in Palm Beach high society, particularly to belong at the Palm Royale Club. To achieve her goal, she steals from rich socialite Norma Dellacorte (Burnett), who has fallen into a coma, and pawns her belongings.
The new season of the hit Apple TV show picks up after season 1's infamous Beach Ball, when all of Maxine's schemes come crashing together and chaos breaks out. Additionally, fans will see how a bombshell pregnancy, which sent ripples through Palm Beach's elite, will unfold.
Showrunner Abe Sylvia added that this season, the show will explore the lives of all the Palm Beach women beyond Maxine.
"This season, we go into the homes of the other women, and they have their own sort of standalone storyline that still feed Maxine's, but I really wanted to get to know the women's lives on a deeper level this season," Sylvia said.
Along with Burnett and Wiig, returning cast members include Laura Dern as Linda Shaw, Allison Janney as Evelyn Rollins, Ricky Martin as Robert Diaz, Leslie Bibb as Dinah Donahue, Josh Lucas as Douglas Dellacorte, Amber Chardae Robinson as Virginia Lyons, and Kaia Gerber as Mitzi.
Bibb said the women this season are "redefining themselves," adding that it's "really fun to watch a character evolving and in some sort of evolution and all of their worlds sort of get turned upside down."
The "White Lotus" star, who returned to "Palm Royale" after filming in Thailand, said stepping back into the world of "Palm Royale," which is set in 1969, was "exciting."
"My first day on set, and I'm in all-black, and I am stealing a dead body, and I'm running down a corridor with, like, a gurney, and we're trying to steal Ricky Martin, and I'm like, 'What is going on?'" Bibb said.
For Palm Beach queen bee Evelyn, who is in survivor mode after her husband's death in season 1 and has gone from rags to riches to rags again, Janney said she's at a crossroads.
"Everything's been torn away from her, her money and her trappings of her birds, her wealth," she said. "Everything is gone, and she's there, and she doesn't want to be. She wants to reinvent herself. That's what you see happen for Evelyn and a lot of women this season."
Martin added that his character Robert, the bartender also at the center of the series, is also keeping "a lot of secrets" and continues to discover details about himself.
"There is a sadness to his eyes, but he still feels very protected by Norma, and the love he feels for her is conflicting," he said.
Behind-the-scenes, the powerhouse cast opened up about their joyous reunion on set.
Co-executive producer Jayme Lemons said, "We have a ball."
"I feel guilty, because we have such a good time," she continued. "We love each other, and we laugh all the time, and Apple lets us make this huge show that we look forward to going to work every day, and we get to do it with our best friends. I get to produce it with my best friend, and it's, I don't know, what did I do right?"
Mindy Cohn, who portrays Ann Holiday, the editor of the Palm Beach newspaper the Shiny Sheets, added, "We're all just obsessed with each other. It is as good as you want it to be. As much as you think, 'I wonder if those people are as magnificent as we think they are?' -- they are."
Joining the series regulars this season is a new group of actors, which includes John Stamos, Vicki Lawrence and Patti LuPone.
Star and co-executive producer Dern shared how she and her co-producers were able to score the three stars for the new season.
"It's us going, 'How do we get Carol Burnett to ask Vicki Lawrence to be in this? How do we get Patti LuPone to be part of something where we're going to have actual musical numbers?' And, 'Do you think John Stamos would come and play this unbelievable character?'" Dern recalled.
She added, "So, it was just, 'How do we make it even more fun for an audience?'"
With the new season exploring more of each cast member, showrunner Sylvia opened up about how the series speaks to the pressures that women experience in real life.
"It's about how marginalized people or people who are not straight white dudes have to kind of go about their lives if they want to live with ambition," Sylvia said.
Wiig added, "I do think some things that these women want and or struggled with then, it's still present today in some form. There's definitely a lot about their story of standing in society, their appearance, all of that stuff."
Robinson highlighted how the show speaks to power and secrecy in a glamorous setting.
"There's a lot of layers here that people don't actually get to see," she said. "A lot of times, the glamour and the lights and the glitz is so blinding for people that they don't understand that there is a lot that goes into that -- at what cost? At what cost do you have this lifestyle?"
She continued, "I think it's important to show the layers, because it allows people to empathize with others and to have grace with people, because not everything is perfect, and everybody has a story."
"Palm Royale" season 2 is available to stream now on Apple TV.
