Are ‘Five-Star Weekend’s Hollis & Jack Endgame?
What To Know
- In The Five-Star Weekend, Hollis reconnects with her childhood flame during a transformative trip to Nantucket.
- The show’s creators weigh in on whether the two are endgame.
Hollis Shaw’s (Jennifer Garner) heart might be broken clean in half at the start of The Five-Star Weekend, but it starts to heal a bit once she reconnects with her former childhood flame, Jack (Timothy Olyphant), during her big Nantucket weekend with the girls.
But are the rekindled lovebirds meant to be? The creators of the new Peacock drama sure think so.
In the eight-part series, Hollis is inadvertently reintroduced to Jack when he tags along with the husband of her lifelong best friend, Tatum (Chloe Sevigny), during an outing. Since Tatum is quietly struggling with very serious questions about her health, she leans on her husband, whom she’s been with since they were kids, for support in order to avoid breaking down or alarming Hollis.
Though Hollis is resistant to Jack’s charms at first, once she learns of her late husband’s infidelity — with Gigi (Gemma Chan), a woman who befriended her under false pretenses, no less — she gives in. Together, the two enjoy major fireworks in bed, and, perhaps not coincidentally, Hollis decides to stick around in Nantucket after the weekend is over.
Speaking to our sister site TV Insider about the series’ romantic subplot, creator Bekah Brunstetter said she is left rooting for the two to make their new-old love last.
“It’s not black or white, because it’s not necessarily the story of, ‘Oh, Hollis should have ended up with him,’ right? It’s more like a story of second chances, and just going with your life as your life evolves, and just this idea that you change as you go throughout life, and that there’s still people that stay with you,” she said. “But it’s bittersweet because there was still love with her husband, too, and if she hadn’t met her husband, she wouldn’t have her daughter and that life.”
Director Minkie Spiro also found it touching that “teenage friendship is rekindled” between the two — even with the timing. “The reasons that they split up weren’t really strong enough reasons for the split,” she said. “I think there’s such an electricity between the two of them that is undeniable, that you just are rooting for them. There’s something, you know, that Jen G brings to it, where she does struggle with the loss of Matthew, while also having this second chance, and I think that that wave that she rides through the show is really beautiful.”
So are you rooting for Hollis and Jack to be endgame? Or do you think they are not meant to be?
The Five-Star Weekend, Streaming Now, Peacock
