![]() Or, well, Eve and Brandy.) It’s a spectrum of settling back into civilian life and perpetually chasing the high of that stardom, at least as portrayed on the show. (Think some semblance of TLC in the early aughts. ![]() Why is this not the plot of all TV series? If we can have three “Chicago” universe series and 75 Law & Orders, we should have at least half a dozen shows paying tribute to the greatest era of modern pop music while simultaneously giving juicy starring roles to iconic female entertainers in their 40s.īeyond the whole “getting the gang back together” framework of the early episodes, Queens tracks what happens to celebrities of the magnitude that Nasty Bitches reached. There’s millennium nostalgia and fun music. Yes, this is exactly the plot of Girls5eva. Each of the foursome is unfulfilled with how their lives ended up since-an overextended mom/housewife, a struggling has-been artist, a closeted churchgoer, and a flailing C-list celebrity-and agrees to forgive the past that led to their initial breakup and ride the wave of buzz into a career resurgence. The general conceit is that a four-woman group called the Nasty Bitches that had chart-topping, MTV-minted success in the late ’90s and early ’00s is back in the headlines 20 years later when a hot new artist samples one of their big tracks. I’m loath to use any word once it’s been bastardized by Mark Zuckerberg’s tiny mouth, but there is something deliciously “meta” about this series.
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