The Five Star Weekend: Book vs. Series

Peacock’s 2026 series The Five Star Weekend adapts Elin Hilderbrand’s 2023 novel. In both, grieving food personality Hollis Shaw gathers friends from different eras of her life on Nantucket, where old tensions disrupt the restorative weekend she planned.

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About the book and the series
Book
The Five-Star Weekend cover
Author
Elin Hilderbrand
Year
2023
Pages
456Buy book
Audiobook length
12 hr 45 minGet audiobook
Narrator
Erin Bennett

After her husband dies unexpectedly, food blogger Hollis Shaw invites one friend from each stage of her life to spend a weekend at her Nantucket home. With Hollis’s daughter filming the gathering, old loyalties, private resentments, and long-kept secrets begin testing the carefully arranged reunion.

Series
The Five Star Weekend poster
Creator
Bekah Brunstetter
Year
2026
Episode
41 minWatch on Amazon
Seasons
1
Episodes
8
Network
Peacock
Cast
Jennifer Garner, Chloë Sevigny, Regina Hall, D'Arcy Carden
Genre
Drama
IMDb
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After a devastating loss exposes cracks in her seemingly perfect life, celebrated cook and author Hollis Shaw invites friends from different stages of her past to her Nantucket home. The restorative weekend she imagines grows complicated as old tensions surface and each guest arrives with secrets of her own.

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