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After getting a taste of what it s like to perform together again, the women decide to resurrect Girls5eva from its musical grave and take one last shot at stardom.
Except this time around they have to do it on their own because no one wants to hear from women over 35 and they are all in their forties.
Just as you d expect from a series crafted by the hands of Meredith Scardino and Tina Fey,
Girls5eva is brimming with an onslaught of jokes and rapid-fire one-liners, all while sharply poking fun at late ‘90s pop and the antics of Gen Z TikTok fanatics.
The songs come nearly as fast as the jokes in “Girls5eva,” Peacock’s just-launched streaming sitcom about a B-list late-’90s girl group that gets back together when a present-day rap star named Lil Stinker samples its biggest hit.
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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