Make It a Double: Rollicking ‘Girls5Eva’ Renewed for Second Season on Peacock
The girls from Girls5Eva may not be on the air 4Eva, but they are getting a second season.
The Tina Fey-produced series had its first season debut May 6th and rapidly became a word-of-mouth hit. The show stars Grammy Award-winning singer Sara Bareilles, RenĂ©e Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton), Paula Pell (Saturday Night Live) and Busy Philipps (Cougar Town) as the remaining members of a one-hit-wonder â90s girl group. (A fifth singer is played in flashbacks by Emily in Parisâ Ashley Park; her character died in an accident.) After their old single âFamous 5evaâ is sampled by a young rapper, the quartet reunite and try to relaunch their music career.
âWe are so excited to continue Girls5eva alongside this incredibly talented group of cast and producers,â Lisa Katz, President, Scripted Content at NBC Universal Television and Streaming, said in a statement. âIt was hard to miss the immediate fandom that was born after the launch of this series. This aspirational comeback story is filled with heart and friendship, perfectly blended with catchy-songs and humor, and delivered by an exceptionally versatile cast. We look forward to following this groupâs journey as they continue to hit just the right notes.â
In the Season one finale, Girls5eva (the band) made a stab at a comeback, after finagling a way to perform their new song at the important (in the show’s universe) music industry event called the Jingle Ball. Season two should find the group trying to leverage that tiny bit of notoriety into something more substantial.
âThey say they want to be famous and all that sh*t, but itâs not really about fame,â creator Meredith Scardino (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) said in an interview with TVLine. âItâs about fulfillment and trying to build something together and the way theyâre kind of activating each otherâs lives.”
“They were all, in their own way, kind of frozen in amber after the band went away and they all had to pick up the pieces of their lives. I just like underdogs, so I didnât want them to become hugely famous. I also didnât think that was realistic, that they would become hugely famous, these four women without a lot of representation and a lot of resources. So in season two, I would like to retain some of that scrappy âus trying to go up against this big, giant machine as underdogsâ [energy],â she said.
Fans of the show’s original soundtrack are in luck too; as a companion to the first season, Peacock and Epic Records released a soundtrack album, Girls5eva: Music From The Peacock Original Series. The nine-track collection is available here.
Season one of the series reached âCertified Freshâ status on Rotten Tomatoes, with the Top Critic rating remaining at 100%. All eight episodes of season one are streaming now on Peacock.