It s been 20 years since their last performance but the fictional one-hit-wonder girl group
Girls5eva is making a comeback in Peacock s latest original series and we have all the details on how you can watch the new musical comedy on TV or online.
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Created by writer and producer Meredith Scardino who is known for her work on Saturday Night Live, The Colbert Report and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,
Girls5eva tells the tale of Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry), Gloria (Paula Pell) and Summer (Busy Philipps) who rose to fame in the late 90s as members of the group Girls5eva.
Ted Danson series
Mr. Mayor). Accordingly,
Girls5Eva boasts an abundance of supporting players with ties to previous Fey projectsâthose aforementioned sitcoms, as well as
Saturday Night Live, the Broadway musical version of
Mean Girls, and a few more left-field titles.Â
In fact, the more you look at the new series, the more youâll see that all roads lead back to Fey. Forget about [Wickie voice]
Jim Carreyâs
oeuvre. Itâs time to take a deep dive into the Tina Fey Cinematic Universe, and how
Girls5Evaâs players fit in. (Obviously, some light spoilers for the series lie ahead.)Â
Saved by the Bell reboot, created by
30 Rock alum Tracey Wigfield, follows a similar breakneck comedic pace. New to the fold is
Girls5Eva, created by Meredith Scardino (
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,
The Colbert Report). The series follows a pop girl group (the titular Girls5Eva) who achieved early 2000s fame and then promptly sank into obscurity like so many one-hit wonders.
But when rapper Lil Stinker samples their hit song in his latest single, the ladies find themselves tasting pop culture relevancy once more and contemplating a reunion. But it’s been a long 20 years since their bubblegum pop days. Dawn (Sara Bareilles) is married and living in Queens, where she manages her brother’s (Dean Winters, channeling beeper king Dennis Duffy) restaurant. Dawn has a son, and is debating trying for another kid. There’s a great subplot and song where she fears that her son is becoming a “New York lonely boy” whose only friends are doormen. Dawn is essentially the Liz Lemon of
The ladies of
Girls5eva: Gloria (Paula Pell), Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry), and Summer (Busy Philipps). Heidi Gutman/Peacock
In 2000, MTV dropped the made-for-TV movie
2Gether, a parody about a fictional boy band of the same name and its rival, Whoa. 2Gether consisted of five members, each cast to fit a very specific type, including the bad boy and the heartthrob. The not-a-real-boy-band boy band eventually became real enough – or rather, popular enough – to spawn a short-lived TV series spin-off and a second album,
It seems doubtful the ladies of Girls5eva, the fictional late- 90s girl group in the new Peacock series