Everything We Know About Jennifer Garner’s Newest TV Drama The Five Star Weekend
After starring in season 2 of The Last Thing He Told Me earlier this year, Jennifer Garner has another TV drama coming to our screens next month. Based on the bestselling novel by Elin Hilderbrand, The Five Star Weekend stars Garner as a famed food blogger who suffers a devastating loss and hosts a weekend getaway with friends on the picturesque island of Nantucket. Here’s everything you need to know.
What is The Five Star Weekend about?
The Five Star Weekend centres on Hollis Shaw (Garner), a hugely successful food influencer and bestselling author whose apparently perfect life is suddenly shattered by a devastating personal loss. As she struggles to process her grief and pick up the pieces, the tragedy starts to reveal tensions and problems that had long existed beneath the surface, including a strained relationship with her daughter Caroline (Harlow Jane) and unresolved issues in her personal life.
Searching for a way to move forward, Hollis comes up with the idea of inviting four women from different times of her life to spend a weekend together at her Nantucket home. One friend, Tatum (played by actress Chloë Sevigny), represents her childhood, another, Dru-ann (Regina Hall), her twenties, while Brooke (D’Arcy Carden) represents her thirties. There’s also a mysterious friend named “Gigi” (Gemma Chan) whom she has only ever known online and will now meet for the first time. Timothy Olyphant also appears, playing one of Hollis’ past boyfriends.
Against the backdrop of beaches, luxury homes, and summer gatherings (always good for a juicy drama), the series explores grief, identity, and friendships, and the ways people ultimately evolve and change over time.
What begins as an opportunity for healing soon becomes something much messier, however. Old tensions start to bubble to the surface, long-buried secrets emerge, and friendships are tested as the women spend more time together- and perhaps Hollis is reminded why people move on to different friends and acquaintances. Against the backdrop of beaches, luxury homes, and summer gatherings (always good for a juicy drama), the series explores grief, identity, and friendships, and the ways people ultimately evolve and change over time.
What else do we know, and when does it release?
Adapted by Bekah Brunstetter (American Gods), the miniseries is set to consist of 8 episodes. The official trailer (which you can watch below) begins with Hollis midway through a food vlog when she’s told the devastating news about the loss of her husband. Explaining her idea to invite friends from each phase of life (with some trepidation from said friends), she heads off to Nantucket with the group in tow. While Hollis is intent on trying to move on and recover from her grief, the simmering tensions mentioned in the plot synopsis are already evident in the trailer, and the perfect weekend might not be so idyllic.
The Five Star Weekend premieres on Sky in July (the exact release date is TBA), with all eight episodes available to stream immediately.
