What if I told you that Netflix is premiering three full seasons of a comedy series produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock that offers the perfect companion to their work on “30 Rock” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”? You might wonder how such a show could amass that many seasons without reaching much of an audience, and the answer is: Peacock. That was the streaming home for the first two seasons of the excellent comedy “Girls5eva,” produced by Fey and Carlock and created by former “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” writer and producer Meredith Scardino.
In its first two seasons, “Girls5eva” was a bright spot among Peacock’s original programming. It’s a smart, hilarious show about the reunion of a briefly popular 2000s girl group, full of the kind of layered pop-culture references and oddball characters that Fey and Carlock are known for. “Girls5eva” may have suffered from being among Peacock’s earliest original series, debuting at a time when the service had few subscribers and minimal buzz. If it had premiered a bit later, it could have joined shows like “Poker Face” and “The Traitors” among Peacock’s breakout hits.
