I was not a day one Girls5Eva fan, and for that I blame both myself and all of you. As Jackson McHenry reported for Vogue recently, people are quite simply not watching! For the uninitiated, Girls5Eva is a hilarious sitcom created by Meredith Scardino about an early aughts girl band that reunites in present day to revive their careers. The women had gone their own separate ways when the group broke up, but they fall back into their old patterns of knowing each other in no time at all.

What was a group of five is now a group of four after one of the members tragically died— Dawn (Sara Bareilles), Wickie (Renée Elise Goldsberry), Gloria (Paula Pell), and Summer (Busy Philipps). They were previously typecast as the chill one, fierce one, hardworking one, and hot one respectively, but now that they’re adults they’re ready to break out from their toxic management and find themselves for real.

What this show does a great job of is not just the humorous moments, but being honest about early 2000s fame culture and the effect it had on the women. They were taken advantage of, exploited, groped, and forced to do things they didn’t want to do. It was just the price they paid for being young and hot! It’s pretty incredible to see the way they slowly realize that they were being exploited, and how they react to these realizations in ways that seem incredibly real and gut wrenching while never breaking from the light, entertaining vibe of the show. The writers did an incredible job balancing these two realities to create a consistent tone.

I am a sucker for friend group TV shows (think: Girls, Sex and the City, Insecure, Sex Lives of College Girls), and this show falls in line with that while also subverting it. These women are the same age Carrie Bradshaw was at the start of Sex and the City, but they’re in remarkably different phases of their lives. Dawn has a husband and a child. Summer, perhaps the one who changed the least in the intervening years, is married to early-aughts boy band member Kev (Andrew Rannells). My favorite two characters are Gloria (a divorced lesbian) and Wickie (a pathological narcissist). The way they were shaped by their girl band experiences is so opposite and yet equally damaging that they make perfect foils in the most unexpected way.

If it wasn’t obvious already, I adore Girls5Eva. I find myself walking around the house singing the theme song, and relate to each of the characters in a way I wouldn’t have expected to based purely on the demographics of the main characters. Now that this show is on Netflix, more people need to watch it immediately. It wouldn’t be fair to the immense talent of everyone involved not to renew it for dozens more episodes. They have what it takes, now make it happen!