The Four Seasons, the review of Tina Fey’s Netflix series

For the series The Four Seasons of Netflix her creator Tina Fey she returned to writing with the team of 30 Rock Composed of the faithful Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield. For the author and comic, however, it was important to have the support of one person in particular: Alan Alda, who wrote, directed and played the film of the same name in 1981 From which the show takes inspiration, with a group of six characters who choose to spend a holiday time together in each of the four seasons of the year – and who also reserves one of his cameo in the product on the platform. The Fey show, of which it is also among the protagonists, is not simply a remake of the film of the eighties, but a reinterpretation in the light of social changes and the progress of the times, while keeping in mind the main purpose that also belonged to the film.

That is to tell from the most human point of view possible the transformations that each person is led to face, as one finds ourselves different from the people who was in the past and how much this can reflect and influence relationships that we keep with us for a lifetime. A modification of their skin, as trees and plants do at the stroke of each new season, keeping the wire of friendship that binds the characters as constant and allowing the viewer to find even a little themselves within the series.

The Four Seasons and that separation experienced as a group

This is undoubtedly the strong point of The Four Seasons: a complete identification in the characters played by Fey together with Will Forte, Steve Carell, Kerri Kenney, Colman Domingo And Marco Calvaniat any point you are in your existence or age. A sort of recognition that is easy to look at them spending time together, in the group dynamics that have established after years of knowledge, feeling part of a circle that is broken by the separation of the couple formed by Nick (Carell) and Anne (Kenney). An internal fracture in the relationships established Among the three couples that form the groupas well as in the group itself that will suffer the repercussions of a relationship that reached the end after twenty -five years of marriage, questioning the relationships in itself as the fragility of each of the characters.

One event that determines the 365 following days of the protagonists, starting from the spring with which the eight episodes of The Four Seasons And who will continue two in two to dedicate their space to each season. The desire to give himself a second chance of the character of Nick will ask others if, after all, have never really lived. For a narrative that, as in the work of the same name of 81, does not work with absolutisms, does not give orders of behavior or inflicts judgments, but observes and sculpted the characters of the characters, all different from each other, each mirror in which the public can find its strengths or defects, feeling very close to them.

The value of friendship (inside and outside the screen)

It is the sense of familiarity that affected the film of Alda, never theoretical and therefore incredibly true, and that the series proposes without forcing, especially when it adapts the vision of relationships and how they are conceived in the current era. Perhaps because even the film does not suffer from the time that has passed, knowing how to cross it and showing how we are destined to repeat the same mistakes, to feel the same things, to experience the same feelings that overwhelmed the others. Fisher and Wigfield was therefore therefore to work with finishing on the transposition from series to series, in finding the right faces for the most suitable characters and sensitivity to describe them in the best way. Chemistry then came from itself.

The group of six friends – Seven with Nick’s new girlfriend, played by Erika Henningsen – It is agile in showing one’s attachment and what does not go, to return the hours of fun together, but also the resentment that can often arise despite love and affection. But it is inevitable if you decide not to be alone in the world, to find their tribewhich is what the characters have done. Just as the viewer can be joined by joining the family of The Four Seasonslooking at Netflix’s dramedy and perhaps learning to take care of the friendships around you.