The Five Star Weekend will be back for Season 2

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The Five Star Weekend has seemingly become a five-star show. The friendship-fuelled Jennifer Garner drama is the most-watched scripted series of all time on its U.S. streaming platform, Peacock.

The numbers are undeniably stellar. The show has clocked 2.1 billion viewing minutes — or the equivalent of nearly 4,000 years — since its July 9 debut, according to Peacock’s parent company, NBCUniversal. The Five Star Weekend airs on W Network in Canada and streams on StackTV.

The show is based on Elin Hilderbrand’s like-named 2023 novel, and its success has also helped land the book on the New York Times bestseller list. It’s not surprising, then, that Peacock has renewed The Five Star Weekend for a second season.

“If you’re curious about what’s going to happen next, imagine how we feel!” said Garner in a statement announcing the renewal.

The actress plays Hollis, a food influencer with legions of social media followers. But after a life-changing loss, cracks start to show in her seemingly picture-perfect life. Hollis decides to reunite with three besties from her past, as well as a new friend she met online, and invites them to her Nantucket home for the weekend.

The main cast features Chloë Sevigny, Regina Hall, D’Arcy Carden and Gemma Chan as her guests. By the end of the first season, which was originally billed as a limited series, a revelation results in one of them being banished from Hollis’s life.

The finale ended with Hollis suggesting that she and her remaining “stars” reunite every year, and one even posed Greece as the next destination. In the book, meanwhile, the epilogue caught up with the group returning from Italy.

Showrunner Bekah Brunstetter, who also developed the series, previously confirmed that The Five Star Weekend has the narrative potential to extend well past its first run of episodes. She likened the concept to HBO’s jet-setting series The White Lotus.

“I’ve got a lot of ideas,” she told Variety in July. “From the beginning, we thought, ‘In a perfect world, well, there’s five Stars. Who is the new fifth Star?’ That’s a fun setup, and then you could focus a little bit on a different Star every season. So you get five trips, five Stars, or four trips and a new fifth Star every season.”

For her part, Garner is happy that the show is resonating with audiences and that it can explore the changes across women’s lives with honesty.

“I hope people watch this and have a blast,” she told Elle UK. “You have women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, talking about perimenopause and menopause, but it’s not pedantic and it’s not an eye roll. It’s just (presented as) part of life: talking about kids, comparing kids, success and failure, marriage being hard.”

To be sure, the show’s storylines tackle things such as health challenges, career changes, difficult family dynamics, and unexpected romantic relationships.

“We’re all fed this idea that this has to happen by this age, this has to happen by then, and it just isn’t that way,” said Garner. “It’s all so much more open.