Review of Girls5Eva’s Season 2

As I worked on my last semester of graduate school and cranked out a 90 page master’s thesis on colonial and postcolonial Korean women’s literature, I really found myself wanting to binge watch a lot of television that I did not have to think too hard about. This meant an influx of drama reviews on this blog, as well as a lot of comedy shows that I would probably have not watched under normal circumstances.

Anyways, Girls5Eva I started in the middle of March, just as spring break began approaching. I headed to New York City for my spring break, which allowed me an actual break from binge watching the show, but I hit season two just as April was around the corner. If you haven’t read my first blog post on this show, then I originally began watching this because I saw Renee Elise Goldsberry and Sara Bareilles were in it.

Ashley Park was the final seller for me, but I’m a theater girl. I never saw Goldsberry live, but I saw Bareilles in Into the Woods as the Baker’s Wife, and thought she was pretty good in the role with Brian D’Arcy James paired opposite her. And that’s the story of how I ended up watching way too much of this show, although I won’t be reviewing Season 3.

I simply could not get through a third season of this. I was fine with it until halfway through this season, and then the show just started getting kind of old for me too quickly. But more on that later.

Onwards to the review!

Girls5Eva is signed onto a record label, but now they just need to get an album out.

At the end of the first season, we saw how the girls were able to have their moment. Well, at the beginning of this season, they’ve been brought onto the record label Property Records, and now they really need an album to record before they lose their momentum.

An executive at the record company tells them that they have six weeks to get this out, and things are rocky from the get-go. Gloria does a death drop at a showcase, and has a knee injury because of it. Despite this, she perseveres and continues going on interviews. Eventually, the girls decide they need to take a break before throwing themselves back into things.

Right after that, they find themselves not only struggling with each of their personal lives, but getting this album out into the world. From problems with songwriters and recording to random music video controversies, this continues to be a hard sail to the top for these ladies.

All in all, I find that this season continues a lot of the same humor from the first season, except now the girls are going full-on pop star mode and don’t know how to adjust. This leads to personal conflicts along with professional ones, making things even more difficult for everyone involved in these processes.

I wish I could add more to this summary section, but I find that a lot of this season is just repetitive. I think that boils down to my major complaints about the show, especially as we approach season three—it just doesn’t feel fresh anymore.

Like I enjoyed the first season, but as things felt like they were running through the same loops, just within different contexts, that’s when I really began losing steam for the show. Each actress is certainly talented, but I just wasn’t into the content anymore.

I will say, a great twist would’ve been exposing that Ashley was alive this entire time.

Overall Thoughts

If it wasn’t obvious, I didn’t love this second season. I was into it until about the fourth episode, and that’s when it began sliding downwards for me.

But if you loved it, truly great for you! We just have different tastes at the end of the day, and that’s completely fine. I could see how someone might watch this all the way through, while others would dub it brainless television.

All in all, I want to see these ladies in more work. The show has concluded its run by now, but I’ll watch whatever they do next for sure as independent or solo projects. One could say the band has been broken up in a different way.

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