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In “Girls5eva,” the latest sitcom to emerge from the Tina Fey-Robert Carlock combine, Sara Bareilles, Busy Philipps, Paula Pell and Renée Elise Goldsberry play the members of a briefly famous ‘90s girl group who fate, if not the public, calls to reunite. Like other shows in the Fey-Carlock canon — “30 Rock,” “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” the much-improved “Mr. Mayor,” renewed for a second season on NBC — it is a hodgepodge of real feeling and cartoon rhythms, deadpan reactions to crazy stuff and meltdowns over nothing, surrealist throwaways and pop-cultural satire. At once biting and heartwarming, it may mock its characters but never their feelings, of which they have many.