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Netflix Brings Music Satire ‘Girls5eva’ Back From the Dead for a Well-Deserved Season 3: TV Review
Netflix has revived the canceled Peacock sitcom 'Girls5eva' for a well-deserved, and slightly meta, second chance at pop music satire.
The parallels to real life only compound from there; just as the actual production had to rush a six-week shoot on a shoestring budget, this no-longer-girl-group is traveling between decidedly minor markets in a van driven by their tour manager Percy (“30 Rock” favorite John Lutz). There’s at least space for more original songs, from a strained tribute to tour stop (“Know Your Fort Worth”) to a half-baked single from the failed solo career of Renée Elise Goldsberry’s delusional diva Wickie Roy (“Yesternights”). Cutaway gags to the group’s first run at the charts remain some of the series’ comic highlights: a “sex tape” between then-closeted Gloria (Paula Pell) and NSYNC’s Lance Bass turns out to be a game of hide-and-don’t-seek in an empty hotel room.
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