"Girls5eva" Will Be Loved 4eva

Executive produced by Fey and others including Meredith Scardino the series creator Girls5eva stars Sara Bareilles Busy Phillips Paula Pell and Renamp233e Elise Goldsberry as the titular pop group that was once a one hit wonder in the nostalgia filled days of yesteryear that would be the 90s and have now come back together to reclaim their fame after 20 years of just being normal folksI have to say this show definitely feels like something that in the wrong hands could39ve been pretty terrible but thanks to the solid writing and talented cast what we get is more downtoEarth than I could39ve predicted Furthermore thanks to its presence on a streaming app as opposed to a network in the classic sense it doesn39t pull any punches as far as language goes but in a way that feels more intentional and measured than one39s average PG13TV14 production For example there39s a scene where the newly reunited group tries to rehearse while the one of them who ended up being a dentist Gloria Paula Pell tries to join in via FaceTime during a procedure she39s doing Her patient whose mouth is wide open has such terrible breath that Gloria gags during the first verse and apologizes by saying quotThis guy39s mouth is like a straight shot to his assholequot Pell had another moment later in the season where she referred to her quotJohn Hancockquot as a quotJane Hanpussyquot which is just amazingBeyond the potty language the majority of the writing is simply clever as hell The rapper that sampled Girls5eva the move that made them vaguely relevant again is named Lil39 Stinker which sounds ridiculous at least until you consider the fact that DaBaby Lil Baby and Lil Uzi Vert are all the equally ridiculous names of reallife rap artists who are all grownass menThe execution of the flashbacks is also top notch They really help sell the storied yet familiar past of the now almost middleaged girl groupers Let39s forget the fact that what made a lot of this stuff relatable to me was how I lived through that time period the heyday of MTV39s TRL and the height of America39s pop group obsession and think about the expertly comped visuals during the interview that Girls5eva has with a 199039s Carson Daly who is actually voiced by the presentday Carson Daly now host of The Voice and a coanchor on Today Or how about the interview they did with a 1990s Larry King who passed away in early 2021 The editing was so clean and it nailed the classic aesthetic so well from the grainy footage to the 43 screen ratio that it made G5E seem like they fit all the way in during that time periodIndividually each of the show39s main cast members bring something important to the mix Busy Phillips39 character Summer provides ditzy comic relief and Pell39s character Gloria represents for the LGBT community while also just being a hilarious source of nononsense comedy Goldsberry plays Wickie the boujee one who lords after the kind of game and stardom we all yearned for as tweens and Bareilles plays Dawn quotthe chill onequot turned anxious wife and mother who39s songwriting abilities powered by the real life singersongwriter39s musical and comedic talents may be the secret weapon this group needsMusically the songs are exactly what they should be The group39s classics sound like vintage 3990s pop all the way down to the ridiculously patriarchal lyrics like the song quotDream Girlfriendsquot which has a verse that disparages female comedians or quotSpace Boysquot which was about traveling the universe to find boys to kiss The stuff made later in the series is even more hilarious like quotThe Splingeequot a song about a made up dance that sounds almost impossible to do and quotI39m Afraid Dawn39s Song of Fearsquot which is a song about you guessed it a list of things that Dawn finds scary It includes stuff like being decapitated by a stop sign during strong winds and getting a UTI the second she leaves town and is no longer able to get the medicine over the counterWhen Great News came to an end I remember thinking it was too good of a show to have ended so soon and if this first season is all Peacock ever gives us of G5E I39ll feel exactly the same way Girls5eva is hilarious in a way I couldn39t have predicted and Sara Bareilles has flexed comedy muscles I didn39t know she had Girl groups and boy bands topping the pop charts may not really be a thing anymore but my love for this show just might last 4evaClick the social buttons above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writers

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