The Five Star Weekend

The premise feels forced with the desire to orchestrate another luxe reunion drama in the style of Big Little Lies, The Perfect Couple and The Four Seasons evidently so great that an implausibility is allowed to drive the plot. But there are some good lines — and some refreshing sullen ungirlyness from Hollis’s oldest friend, Tatum (Chloe Sevigny).

I like the cast and how they interact with each other, but a series like this doesn’t need a whole lot of edginess to be entertaining. Unfortunately, this series has so little edge that it might struggle at times to hold viewers’ interest.

All told, and especially by the end, the limited series (which could, in theory, become an ongoing series) is best when it’s not taking itself too seriously.

It's as forgettable and as disposable as the biggest critics of the beach read genre would fear and did the unthinkable: for the first time in my life, it made me wish the weekend would end a lot sooner.

The Peacock limited series is perfectly palatable as a mid-summer binge, just hefty enough to hold your attention but not so heavy as to tax it. It’s just never as special, or as memorable, as one might expect from the sum of its very promising parts.

The Five Star Weekend tries to pack too much in. In addition to the five stars, their personal issues, and conflicts with each other, Caroline also gets plenty of screen time, and it's to the show's undeniable detriment. Sure, she gets sympathy for having lost her dad, but that hardly makes her an interesting character.