A New Trailer for The Five Star Weekend Spills Secrets By the Seaside
Jennifer Garner's character gets tragic news that has her reaching out to old friends in the new 90-second spot.
Key Takeaways
- The Five Star Weekend trailer introduces Hollis Shaw’s life-altering loss and her attempt to heal by gathering friends from different stages of her life in Nantucket.
- The eight-episRead More
- The Five Star Weekend trailer introduces Hollis Shaw’s life-altering loss and her attempt to heal by gathering friends from different stages of her life in Nantucket.
- The eight-episode Peacock Original will be released on July 9.
- Featuring a star-studded cast led by Jennifer Garner, it explores themes of grief, identity, friendship, and personal transformation.
Peacock released the full trailer for The Five Star Weekend, the forthcoming series based on Elin Hilderbrand's popular novel, on May 11. And it's got us counting the days until its July release.
Set to "Shake It Out" by Florence & the Machine, the 90-second spot reveals the tragic inciting incident that changes the life of cookbook author Hollis Shaw (Jennifer Garner), as police inform her that her husband has been in an accident. We cut from a stricken Hollis to gorgeous Nantucket, where she says she's "just trying to move forward." That means rallying her equally-stunning inner circle of friends from "each stage of life."
Watch the full trailer for Peacock's "The Five Star Weekend" series here.
In a feat of wonderful casting, said friends are played by Darcy Carden (The Good Place), Chloe Sevigny (Feud), and Regina Hall (One Battle After Another). Hollis' friends have never met Hollis' fourth guest at the weekend, played by Gemma Chan (Crazy Rich Asians).
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The Five Star Weekend trailer spills the characters' secrets
The trailer widens its focus to all five women's lives, and we soon learn that Hollis isn't the only one pretending things are okay as they are.
"We're all dealing with a lot," Hollis says, as Tatum (Chloe Sevigny) receives medical news, Brooke (Carden) seems to be exploring her sexual orientation, asking, "what if I'm not brave enough to be myself?" And perhaps most intriguingly, Dru-Ann (Hall) clocks that Gigi (Chan) is definitely hiding something.
Things get messy from there — arguments! smashed glass! walking into the ocean fully clothed! — and Hollis' daughter (Harlow Jane) draws gasps when she calls it a "Golden Girls weekend." If drinking wine in gorgeous light by the beach with your besties makes you Blanche Deveraux, sign us up.
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Per the official show description from Peacock, "Hollis Shaw (Garner), a famed cook and best-selling author known for her delicious recipes, impeccable taste, and warm demeanor, who suffers a devastating loss. Unable to move forward, the death starts to expose the cracks in Hollis’s picture-perfect life—her strained marriage, her complicated relationship with her daughter, and her growing pursuit of validation from her fans. In an effort to overcome grief and find herself again, Hollis gets the idea to host a weekend away at her house on Nantucket with three friends from different stages in her life: her childhood, her twenties, thirties, and one surprise fifth star. Set against a luxurious and coastal backdrop, the stars will mature in ways they could never imagine as boundaries are pushed and secrets are exposed."
The Five Star Weekend also stars Timothy Olyphant (Justified), and is executive-produced by Garner, author Elin Hilderbrand, series creator Bekah Brunstetter, Sue Naegle, Ali Krug, Merri Howard, Beth Schacter, and Minkie Spiro.
Minkie Spiro, who directed four episodes of the wildly successful Peacock Original All Her Fault, is also a director of Five Star Weekend. Stream all eight episodes when they hit Peacock on July 9.
