Gloss was the biggest pop group of the millennium - bigger than Britney, bigger than the Spice Girls. But despite their global fame, inside the group, things weren't all glitter and rainbows. And now, 15 years later, Gloss girl Cassidy Holmes is dead. Her former bandmates look back over their years together and apart, trying to see what they missed, and why Cassidy ended her life.

THE UNRAVELING OF CASSIDY HOLMES is, yes, part pop nostalgia, part Behind the Music episode. But it's also so much more than that. It's an examination of the cost of fame, of the mental strain of endless microaggressions, and the many ways talented young women are taken advantage of.

We get Cassidy's point of view from the past, as Gloss is born and rises to stardom. We get the view of her groupmates from the present, revisiting their former life and the choices they made there. I felt deeply for each of them, for different reasons. I wanted so badly for things to work out and for the women to find kinship and support in each other, but it's right there in the title - it's an unraveling, for all of them.

Content warnings: suicide, depression, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, misogyny, racism, Asian fetishism, stalkers, homophobia, substance abuse, sexual harassment and assault, rape.