User Reviews

This show was a blessing to TV during and post pandemic. It's so silly. There is a girl group of 5 singers (Girls 5 Eva) who had a hit in the late 90s but their album tanked in 2001 because they released a song about "flying planes in our hearts" on September 10th. Now 4 of them are in their 40s and one of them died (or did she find out in season 2) and is now a bench, but is still very present in the group. Their hit from 1999 got sampled by lil stinker and they took this as a sign to reunite and be a girl group again.

This is a Tina Fey comedy, so if you love joke joke joke, this is the show for you. Creator Meredith Scardino is also super funny.

The cast features many accomplished Broadway performers: Ashley Park, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sara Bareilles, Erika Henningsen, and Andrew Rannells. So sufficed to say the songs are amazing they are composed by Richard Simmons with lyrics by some of the funniest writers in the business.

They also write full length songs using the end credits so be sure to watch the end credits of the show to hear even longer versions of the funniest songs to make tv. They also release an album. The one thing I'm mad about is Season 1 episode 3 had 3 potentially album worthy songs, even though the instrumentals are played in the background at times, I would like to hear Alf Musik's full songs. New York Lonely Boy resonates with New Yorkers but I also loved the invisible woman song and the sidepeices song. Mostly the invisible visible woman song.

I love this show. Its about a girl group that had one hit twenty years ago and decide to reunite. It doesn't go where you think it is going to go...at least it hasn't through the first nine shows. The journey takes place in a familiar yet alternate universe of influencers, tastemakers, and superficiality that borders on the ridiculous at time. For example, one of the girls in the band signs a 1,000 year contract that has her as a judge on a show called; "American Warrior Singer"...which combines American Ninja Warrior and American Idol, a slot on the Judge Dred House where TV talent show judges all live in a mansion and have pranks played on them...and....the studio owns the rights to her corpse. If I have one complaint is that there is too much comedy in the shows; I'd like to see more meat myself. But some of the jokes just kill me. One of the girls has a piano (that she has given a person's name) that is made of clear acrylic and takes up most of an apartment. She proudly says that it was made by the same people who make the "Realtor of the year awards". Another joke is where one of the girls admits that she works at the Van Nuys airport shooting geese on the runway and she gets "paid by the goose." I lost it when I heard that. What else...Meredith Scardino and Tina Fey are two of the executive producers...there are guest stars in nearly every episode from Wanda Sykes to Jimmy Fallon to Stephen Colbert to Vanessa Williams.... The cast is clearly very talented with Sara Barelles (I gave up trying to spell her name right), Busy Phillips, Paula Pell, and Rene Elise Goldsberry (you may know her as Angelica Schulyer from the original Hamilton cast). Something else I really like (geek wise) is that the Peacock platform allows for a full run of credits to where the graphic designer has her name in the same sized font as Tina Fey and Vanessa Williams. They didn't have to do that. I am hoping for a second season. High marks all around.