Girls5eva, a musical comedy series created by Meredith Scardino and produced by Tina Fey and her frequent collaborator Robert Carlock, asks what happens when girl bands grow up. The show’s characters are members of Girls5eva, a Spice Girls-style one-hit-wonder act from the early 2000s. The five-girl group’s oeuvre included the zeitgeist-pandering “Tiny Butts Forever” (Two silver dollar pancakes in jeans/ This will be what people like forever) and an unfortunate flop, “Quit Flying Planes at My Heart,” released on Sept. 10, 2001. A Bush-era anthem, “I Feel Sexual About the Flag,” recorded at a country-music station called The ’Gasm, wasn’t enough to arrest Girls5eva’s slide into obscurity.

Time, and the times, moved on. The group’s unifying personality, Ashley (portrayed in flashbacks by Ashley Park), died after falling off an infinity pool. Dawn (Sara Bareilles) got a job at her brother’s Italian restaurant and became an anxious New York mother. Gloria (Paula Pell, Erika Henningsen in flashbacks) came out as gay, became a workaholic dentist, and made history with America’s “first same-sex divorce.” Wickie (a luminous Renee Elise Goldsberry) pursued a slew of embarrassing schemes to stay relevant. Summer (Busy Philipps) moved into a McMansion with her husband, an ex-boy-band-star-turned-media personality, and their daughter, Stevia.