Girls5eva is top of the class of Tina Feyâs school of rock
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There is some delightful silliness on
Girls5eva, and it adds up quickly. âQuick quesh,â asks Summer (Busy Philipps), one of the surviving members of a turn-of-the-century girl group now trying to make a comeback in the music industry. âAre croutons wood?â Making a salad, as with making a hit song and virtually everything else someone aspires to on this quick-witted comedy, is harder than you imagine. The showâs secret is that itâs also illuminating.
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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.
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Girls5eva, the latest sitcom co-executive produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, that you wanted to go to there “there” in this case being Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service. Like the rest of the Fey/Carlock corpus, this new show, which was created by Meredith Scardino, boasts an impressive joke-per-minute ratio. But because the show centers on a late-’90s/early-’00s girl group with frequent flashes back to that period, some of those jokes may fly over the heads of anyone who didn’t spend those years parked in front of MTV. If you’re one of those people, no worries, we’re here 5 you: The following is a guide to some of the bubblegum pop–era references on
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