The A.V. Club she was interested in writing about women in her age group, and she spent time thinking about the most intriguing setting to tell stories about female friendships. “I noticed how girl groups were reuniting. I saw the Spice Girls were doing a tour without Posh, and it occurred to me that I grew up in a time when there were all these other boy and girl bands who were a blip for a second and then they were gone,” Scardino says. With
Girls5eva, she was excited to explore the possibilities of this band getting another chance at being relevant.
“I can’t believe someone’s letting us do this,” Scardino tells TheWrap
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Peacock’s new comedy “Girls5Eva” features, naturally, a number of musical performances throughout its eight-episode run, but given pandemic filming restrictions, those numbers look a little bit different than your typical late-’90s, early-’00s pop concert.
“I put one performance in an abandoned mannequin factory because I thought it would give us a few more bodies in crowd shots, which was kind of cool,” series creator Meredith Scardino said in an interview with TheWrap. “It was definitely like throwing me into the deep end as a first-time showrunner, but I was really always amazed at how everybody rallied and made things happen, and I’m really proud of the product that we made.”
‘Girls5eva’ is a Comedic Showstopper from the Producers of ‘30 Rock’
The latest Peacock series is laugh-out-loud funny and full of catchy original music.
Welcome to
Up Next, a column that gives you the rundown on the latest TV. This week, Valerie Ettenhofer reviews Girls5eva, the new Peacock series from the team behind Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
The theme song to
Girls5eva is both incredibly corny and incredibly catchy. “We’re gonna be famous 5eva, ‘cause 4ever’s 2 short!” a group of women sing while striking poses in bedazzled camo pants and tube tops. The opening credits of the new Peacock series are fitting for a comedy that creatively skewers the absurdity of the music industry, and by the fourth episode of the binge-worthy eight, you’ll most likely find yourself singing along.
They were once a 5 member girl group in the 1990s but
Girls5Eva are now all grown up, in their 40s with kids, mortgages, in daily grind jobs and unable to slip into their skin tight outfits.
There’s also only 4 surviving members: Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Summer (Busy Philipps), Gloria (Paula Pell) and Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry).
But when young rapper Li’l Stinker (Jeremiah Craft) samples their song for his latest hit, suddenly showbiz beckons once more.
Dawn even hears the song while getting a mammogram prompting her to visit former manager Larry (Jonathan Hadary) to investigate royalties. But the ageing manager, who insists he has now had “mandatory sensitivity training,” has misplaces cheques which are about to expire in 2 days. Dawn heads off on a mission to hand over $372 each to her former vocalists.