If The Five-Star Weekend were a cookie recipe of the kind its protagonist, food influencer Hollis Shaw (Jennifer Garner), has become known for, it’d be one that sounds great on paper, looks pretty coming out of the oven and tastes…y’know, fine. Sweet. Soft. And yet somehow underwhelming, missing the complexity that might take a dessert from good to great.
Likewise, with its starry cast, picturesque views and breezy beach-read origins, the Peacock limited series is perfectly palatable as a mid-summer binge, just hefty enough to hold your attention but not so heavy as to tax it. It’s just never as special, or as memorable, as one might expect from the sum of its very promising parts.
The Five-Star Weekend
The Bottom Line
Pretty and polished, to a fault.
