Bekah Brunstetter Eyes 5-Season Arc for 'The Five-Star Weekend' as Jennifer Garner Shaped Key Storylines
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Updated · Variety · Jul 11
Bekah Brunstetter Eyes 5-Season Arc for 'The Five-Star Weekend' as Jennifer Garner Shaped Key Storylines
3 articles · Updated · Variety · Jul 11
Summary
Five potential trips are already mapped out for Peacock’s “The Five-Star Weekend,” with showrunner Bekah Brunstetter saying future seasons would expand beyond Elin Hilderbrand’s novel and likely introduce a new “fifth Star” each time.
Jennifer Garner helped shape several adaptation choices, Brunstetter said, especially Hollis’ bond with adult daughter Caroline, the emotional fallout of infidelity and the split between public and private identity.
Brunstetter also detailed major departures from the 2023 book: Gigi’s affair is revealed in the pilot, Brooke discovers it first, Hollis sends Gigi away more coldly, and Tatum’s diagnosis becomes more ambiguous.
Those changes were designed to deepen the ensemble over a 72-hour weekend, giving Brooke, Dru-Ann and Caroline fuller arcs around sexuality, career reinvention, grief and female friendship.
Brunstetter said any continuation would be her own invention with Hilderbrand as a sounding board, and could move the women to new settings after what she called a difficult but complete Nantucket shoot.