Sometimes you just want a lot of jokes in a hurry â inside jokes, outside jokes, sight gags involving huge bowls of airborne salad, sound gags involving musical interludes pulled from the bottomless well of â90s synth-pop.
This is the stuff of the zippy new sitcom âGirls5eva.â Created by âThe Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidtâ writer Meredith Scardino, produced by â30 Rockâ's Tina Fey, the show owes its deft musical pastiche vibe to âKimmy Schmidtâ and its splatter-gun banter to â30 Rock.â Eight half-hour episodes are currently streaming on the NBCUniversal Peacock network. Though the showâs appeal depends on your tolerance for a rich degree of archness, itâs just sincere enough on the fly to make something of its central idea: how women in show business navigate the minefields at one age, and then attempt a comeback in another.