GIRLS5EVA
Created by Meredith Scardino, and produced by Tina Fey, “Girls5eva” is an American musical comedy television series that follows four grown women as they try to balance spouses, kids, jobs, debt, aging parents, and so much more as they chase their music dreams that premiered on Thursday, May 6, 2021, on Peacock.
The series stars Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell, and Busy Philipps as the women who make up the titular group.
All eight episodes of the series follow a one-hit-wonder girl group from the ’90s as they reunite 20 years later to give pop stardom one more shot, which will drop at once.
“Girls5eva” tracks the attempted comeback of the same-named one-hit-wonder girl group. Back in the late 1990s, early 2000s, Girls5eva was a clearly manufactured, incredibly mismanaged collection of young women baring their midriffs and singing songs clearly written by men. (The series’ best recurring jokes are the ludicrousness of these lyrics, including “We’ve got the kind of birth control that goes in your arm/And tell me again why Tarantino’s a genius,” and how they’ve performed in music video flashbacks, like Philipps ripping off a graduation gown to reveal a shimmery gold bikini while singing “Jailbait/Great at sex!”) They appeared on a number of different MTV shows, like “TRL” and “MTV Cribs,” when the network was more interested in fawning over celebrities than crafting reality-TV empires around pregnant teenagers. But then the group’s next big single about airplane safety happened to drop the day before Sept. 11, 2001, and member Wickie (Goldsberry) left to pursue a solo career. Girsl5eva both burned out and faded away, the ultimate fear of all celebrities.
Where can I watch “Girls5eva”?
Exclusively available for streaming on NBC’s new streaming service Peacock.