In the eight-episode series—adapted from a Elin Hilderbrand novel by the same name—Hollis organizes a girls’ weekend at her house on Nantucket and invites a friend from each stage of her life. But the women also bring their own baggage to the island, literally and figuratively. So does Hollis, who has been hiding that she and Matthew were not happily married in the end.
Five Star Weekend starts on a wintry Massachusetts day, with Hollis in her kitchen talking about how she feels happiest there, cooking and baking for people. In fact, she’s making elaborate Christmas cookies when police officers show up to tell her that her husband has died.
Hollis gets to planning a girls’ weekend. But since she hasn’t stayed in regular touch with these women, she doesn’t realize that they are all dealing with major problems of their own.
Tatum (Chloë Sevigny) is a childhood friend who runs a dry cleaner on the island and is awaiting results from a biopsy on her breast. She feels like Hollis drifted apart from her to socialize with a more upper-class orbit.
Gigi (Gemma Chan) is a commercial pilot who developed an internet friendship with Hollis after she reached out offering to be a sounding board when Matthew died. She’s the only one who doesn’t know anyone on the trip, so the other friends are trying to figure out how she got invited.
Jennifer Garner stars as food influencer Hollis Shaw in Five-Star Weekend —Greg Gayne—Peacock
Tensions simmering
Hollis is channeling Martha Stewart all weekend, creating an elaborate itinerary that includes five-star meals inside and outside of the home, spa sessions, dance parties, shopping excursions—and even an ice cream truck that rolls up to her house.
Meanwhile, the girls’ weekend turned out to be a time of self-discovery for Brooke, who realizes she has shrunk her identity to accommodate her husband. Gigi gives her a makeover, and she’s so grateful for the new duds that she kisses Gigi on the lips. She apologizes profusely, and Gigi insists it does not have to be a big deal and that they can move on. But it unearths something deeper in Brooke. Her husband has never satisfied her sexually. And he keeps calling her to make sure she’ll support him through his lawsuit. When Brooke finally asks him if he really did do something inappropriate with the intern, he doesn’t deny anything. So she decides to follow her heart and flirts with a local female tour guide named Sunny, bonding with her over a shared love for history.
A heated confrontation follows in a sauna room during the planned spa day—amplified by the weed mints that the women ingested. Gigi admits to Brooke that Matthew was the first person she ever loved and that her online conversations with Hollis helped her feel connected to Matthew after his passing. Meanwhile, Hollis, the baking influencer, is so baked wandering around that she starts seeing Matthew in the spa rooms.
Now the distance Hollis felt with Matthew at the time of his passing makes sense, plus all of Matthew’s planned domestic and international air travel; he was meeting Gigi on her route. She also recalls that he’d get texts from someone named “G,” and he always assured Hollis she was just an OR nurse messaging about work stuff. And now it made sense why Matthew had been driving to the airport when he got into a car accident: he was driving to meet Gigi.
Cooling off
Hollis questions whether Matthew is really going to a work conference given the timing over the holiday season and calls him out. She acknowledges that she’s been busy with her social media accounts, and their daughter Caroline has moved out to go to college, but insists that they need to try to adapt to the new normal together. Matthew says it’s sad that they need to “try” at all.
Hollis hears a noise outside, and when she walks out, she finds her ex, Jack (Timothy Olyphant) on a ladder cleaning her gutters. He says he noticed they needed maintenance but that’s not the real reason why he came over. She confesses that she’d have dreams about him and wake up sweating next to Matthew. They share a kiss and hook up in Hollis’s bed.
Hollis and Gigi retreat to the laundry room to talk in private (though all the friends are listening at the door). Gigi reveals to Hollis that Matthew “was going to choose you.” Before he died, Matthew left Gigi a voicemail saying they needed to talk; Gigi says he was going to break up with her. Hollis looks back at the accident report, which shows that Matthew was driving back toward their house—to Hollis—when he died.
Five-Star Weekend stars (L-R), D'Arcy Carden, Regina King, Chloë Sevigny, Jennifer Garner, and Gemma Chan —Seacia Pavao—Peacock
An ending as sweet as honey
Given all of the drama going into the weekend, the show wraps up with happy endings for the characters. The weekend made the women all best friends with one another, and they immediately started brainstorming destinations for another girls’ trip for the same time next year.
On the beach, Tatum receives her biopsy report. It’s not good news—the lump doctors found is benign but they find abnormal cells forming behind it. But by the end of the show she is feeling optimistic because she knows she is surrounded by supportive family members—and now the friends she made during the girls’ weekend. Tatum and Hollis share a tender moment over a cigarette in which Hollis vows to call her the next day and stay in touch better.
Brooke runs up to Dru-Ann and shares excitedly that she has a girlfriend. Dru-Ann too has had a transformative weekend. She still has her job as a sports agent because it’s revealed that her client pretended to need a break to deal with mental health struggles just so she could watch her boyfriend play basketball. But she resents the way the colleagues at her agency did not support her during the controversy and decides she’s going to quit and launch her own talent agency. She’s always been a surrogate mother to Caroline when Caroline needed someone to talk to, and she feels similarly toward her client Posey. Following this strength—her ability to listen and offer guidance well—feels like the right move for Dru-Ann.
Once Hollis learns the truth about Matthew, she is desperate to keep it from Caroline. But Caroline tells her mom that she figured it out anyway. “I’m an adult person with eyes and ears,” she says. She begs her mom not to hide her feelings from her because it makes it hard for her to confide in her—and she wants to confide in her because Hollis is her only parent now.
Overall, it was a messy but clarifying weekend for everyone.
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