The answer to your half-hour comedy prayers is here

The holy grail of TV endorsements is almost always a half-hour comedy. It's not that people don't want other things—a good thriller, weirder horror, or shows that go on forever that you can fold laundry to—but what most people I talk to will want at some point and burn through the fastest is a half-hour comedy. I'd say there's only so many times you can watch 30 Rock or Seinfeld or Cheers all the way through, but history (and the Nielsen ratings) show that's not true. And even still, the hunger for a new version of these is always there, especially when you might have sat through one of your comfortable sitcoms recently. That's why it's great that you can now watch Girls5eva on Netflix, and with a new season in the works.

The show picks up with a former girl group, now in their 40s and each grappling with their lives as a 'has been'. That is, until one of their songs gets sampled by a famous rapper, and the (now) four members get together and decide to give stardom another shot.

There is some bootstrapping, but this is far from just a simple story about the can-do attitude of showbiz. Rather, Girls5eva falls in line with 30 Rock, which constantly teases celebrity, show business, and the ridiculous ways these things come together and transform, all while jam-packed with jokes. Bits are taken to an absurd degree in a way that still feels surprisingly true – and yes, I'm including the part where the Property Brothers appear as themselves for a joke about how they secretly want to make a show about fighting people.