In an episode of the new netflix comedy The Four SeasonsTina Fey's Character, Kate, Compares A Situation to ZeligAn Obscure Woody Allen Film from 1983. Kate's Husband Jack (Will Forte) Sarcastically Replies, “Oh, that's a Really Fresh Reference!”
The Four Seasons is perhaps an event less fresh reference. The Story of Three Couples-Jack and Kate, Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), and Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani)-Who on Four Memorable Vacations Together Over the Course of A Year, It's A Remake of A 1981 Movie That were Alan Alda's Film Film Directorial Debut. Alda's Version Was Well-Reviewed, and Grossed Over $ 50 Million (Nearly $ 180 Million in 2025 Dollars), A Testament to How Beloved Alda was at the time as the Leading Man on the hit sitcom M*a*s*h. But it hasn'T Linge in The Collective Memory The Way Some Other Films of Its Vintage Have, in Part Because Its Target Audience was moviegoers Who Were Middle-Auged, Like It Stars, Back then.
It was alo released at a time when there werently family-friendly movie options in Theaters Every Weekends, I know some parents living didn'T Want to have a babysitter took their kids along to The Four Seasons. I SAW IT AS A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD, but Recall Nothing Other Than the District Feel That It was a film in No Way Made for Someone My Age. Fey is a Little Older Than Me – She would have just Turned 11 When it Came Out. And apparently either the film or her interactions with alda when he guest-sturred in several episodes of 30 Rock (Playing Jack Donaghy's Biological Father) Left Wides of An Impression That She, Along With Past And Present Collaborators Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, Decided to Adapt The Four Seasons for television. Hey, at Least It's a Relatively Unusual Deviation
From the Kinds of Things That Usually Get Remade in the IP is Everything was of TV! A Few Other Seventies and Eighties Film For Adults Have Gutten Similar Treatment in Recent Years, with showtime at one point offering New Versions of Both American Gigoloand and
Both of Which Came and Went Without Much Notice.
Editor's Picks Since Even the 1981 Movie's Most Laudatory Reviews suggests Alda Had Shot Several Episode of Television and Strung Them Together, The Switch in Mediums is an Easy Fit. And the Nature of the Story Lends Itself to Being Told in this format, with two episodes apiece for each calendar season, and thus each trip the group takes together.But Despite The Pedigree of That Cast and of Fey, Fisher (Who Also Created Never Have i Ever ), and Wigfield (Who created Great news and peacock's Saved by the Bell Legasequel) as Writers, The Four Seasons Never Quite Makes a convincing Argument for Why Its Story Needed to Be revisioned TODAY. There are some amusing moments, and a few genuinely poignant one, but on the Whole it feels think – less on TV show Than an excese for bunch of Talented People, Several of Them Old Friends Irl, to Hang Out Together in Variety of Pretty Locales. It's like a
Grown-ups
Movies, but Without The Fart Jokes.
Our Story Begins in Spring, When the Group Traditionally Assembles at Nick and Anne's Beautiful Lake House. The Other Duos Have Problems-Jack and Kate's Marriage Has Become A Bit Too Routine, While Claude Feels Danny is Being Too Cavout Some Age-Appropplete Health News-But the Main Source of Tension Comes from Nick's Confession That He Wants to Divource Anne. “We're like co-workers at a nuclear facility!” Heys of How Lifeless Their Marriage Feels. “We sit in the same room all night monitor different screen!”
Carell and Kenney-Silver as a coupe in Trouble.
After a cameo by Alda himself — by far the funniest and most touching part of the whole affair, with Alda proving he's still got it, even at 89 and dealing with Parkinson's — we shift to summer, where the other couples are struggling to get used to Nick's much younger new Girlfriend Ginny (Erica Henningsen) While On Vacation At a Comically Crunchy Eco-Friendly Resort She Picked Out for Them. Then there's an autumn parents' Weekend trip to college to visit the daughters of jack, kate, nick, and anne, before the season concludes with parallel winter lodge stays for the now-can
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There are some solid bits of physical comedy here and there, particlerly in The Summer Episode, and Dramatic Moments Land from Time to Time. There's Also A Late Plot Development That Turns The Show Into A Weirdly Specific Piece of Typecasting For One of Its Actors. Mostly, Though, Fey and Company Seem Content to Coast on Vibes and the Chemistry Amag the Cast. The results are pleasant, but rarely more That that. Nick's Daughter Lila (Julia Lester) Accuses Him of Having a “Pretty Basic Midlife Crisis,” and the First Half of That Phrase Applies to Most of The Four Seasons. Everybody Seemed to Have a Good time Making it. Sometimes, That Spirit Becomes A Bit Infectous. But Just As Various Characters Keep questioning Why the Group Chose to Go One One Trip Orother, You will probably as to the End of the Season Wondering Why this Group of People Decided This Was the Project they was to Join Forces To Remake.
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set Behind the Scenes of a Hollywood Production. That's a Subject Fey Might Know a Thing or Two About Turning Into on TV Show.All eight episodes ofThe Four Seasonsare now streaming on Netflix. I'm Seen the Whole Season.
