The Five Star Weekend

Matt Roush says...

And now for a beach read. Elin Hilderbrand’s page-turner becomes a glossy eight-part series (all available for binge-watching), starring Jennifer Garner, who’s also an executive producer, in her element as celebrity chef Hollis Shaw, a perfectionist whose perfect life crumbles after her husband dies in a Christmastime car accident. Months later, she invites friends from different stages of her life to gather for an impromptu girls’ weekend in her staggeringly spacious seaside Nantucket retreat. The support group, each with issues and secrets of their own, includes Chloë Sevigny, Regina Hall, D’Arcy Carden and Gemma Chan. Adding the swoon factor: Timothy Olyphant as Jack, Hollis’s first love, who never left the island. Observing their reunion hug, Hollis’s daughter Caroline (Harlow Jane) remarks, “Why is my mom in a Nicholas Sparks movie with him?” Why wouldn’t she be?

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