The Four Seasons, the review of the Netflix series

How do you stay friends at forty? How do couples evolve or burst into fifty? The relationships between people who have lived a few years together are never easy, but fortunately The Four Seasons He does not try to make us believe the opposite. In this new series Netflixcreated by Tina Fey, Tracey Wigfield and Lang Fisher, they tell about friendship, love and loss without resorting to clichés, with that particular type of sincerity that comes from the experience.

Erika Henningsen in the role of Ginny, Tina Fey in that Kate and Will Forte in that of Jack in The Four Seasons, on Netflix.

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Adaptation of the 1981 film by Alan Alda, The Four Seasons He follows six friends who find themselves, season after season, for a weekend together. The seasons pass, but the dynamics remain: the same defects, the same misunderstandings, the same truths silent that, in their own way, bind us. There is no need for striking dramas: it is the silent conflict, the one that accumulates under the surface, that makes the difference. The great reference declared is a The great coldthe film that in 1981 described the repatriation of a group of friends in a weekend that mixed nostalgia and difficult awareness of the change. And in a sense, The Four Seasons He reflects that same intimacy and that sense of disillusionment that accompanies middle age, but with a more contemporary filter, less dramatic and more rooted in reality.

Nick (Steve Carell) He left his wife Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) for the young woman Ginny (Erika Henningsen). Barb (Tina Fey)the rational, tries to maintain a balance that inevitably crushes. Meanwhile, the others try not to fall on the void that experience has created between their expectations and reality. There are no white and black, as in life we ​​are from the parts of a great perennial gray, because complexity is perhaps the greatest conquest of maturity.

“We wanted an adult show,” said Lang Fisher, “that it wasn’t Euphoria, but something that reflected the real problems of real adults.” Like gen z has Euphorianow the gen x has its series.

Courtesy of Netflix © 2025

Courtesy of Netflix © 2025

Courtesy of Netflix

Source: Vanity Fair

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