The Five-Star Weekend Season 1

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The Five-Star Weekend premiered on Peacock on July 9 as an eight-episode adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's novel, and critics met it warmly: 91 percent positive across 32 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, 68 from Metacritic's 19. Jennifer Garner plays Hollis Shaw, a grieving food influencer who reassembles four friends from different decades of her life for a curated Nantucket weekend, opposite Chloe Sevigny, Regina Hall, D'Arcy Carden and Gemma Chan as the women carrying their own quiet crises into her house. The show earns its warmth honestly, mostly avoiding the prestige-drama impulse to bury a body in a beach read; the grief plotline around Hollis's late husband Matthew lands harder than the show's glossier real-estate-porn instincts. It is comfort television that knows exactly what it is, never reaching for more than a satisfying midsummer binge.

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