“Four Seasons” Review: Tina Fey and Steve Carell on vacation in Winning Comedy

Four Seasons You are not what the Tina Fey project expects.

Creator 30 Rocks and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt It has long been associated with whipping popular cultural satire and punch lines that fly at blink and your speed. and Four SeasonsFey chose the slower burn—but that never makes the show’s wit or rewards dull.

What is it Four Seasons about?

Co-created by Tracey WigfieldGood news) and Lang Fisher (I’ve never), Four Seasons Rediscovered the 1981 Alan Alda movie titled Netflix miniseries. Conceit remains the same: Three couples take a new holiday every season, with each trip scoring by Antonio Vivaldi. four seasons Violin Agreement.

Our couple are Jack and Kate (Will Ford and Fuy), “Complaints are their gender version”; Nick and Anne (Steve Carrell and Carey Kenny Self), whose marriage is a bit outdated. And Danny and Claude (Coleman Domingo and Marco Calvani), their different view of the upcoming medical procedures is the tension of the barrel.

(It is worth noting that Claude Four Seasons Their own. )

The three couples have known each other for decades, as evidenced by the ensemble easygoing comedy chemistry. (Would you expect anything else with a monster actor like this?) Still, the first two episodes of the show (“Spring” part) are a little frustrated. Pacing is slower than other projects of these creators, but contradicts the crazy running of building a dynamic of couples.

This abrasion may be partly due to adjustment Four SeasonsThe story from the length of the movie to the length of the TV, but there is also a narrative reason. Something feels wrong because of something yes Error: Nick intends to leave Anne, a decision that will not only ruin their marriage, but also tear apart the friends group.

During the “Summer” section, the breakup happened and Nick had moved to a young woman: 30-year-old Ginny (Erika Henningsen). Her arrival stirs up the group’s dynamics and the entire trajectory of the show, ushering in the perfect comedy comedy, as well as related issues regarding marriage and relationships.

Four Seasons Provides fascinating, interesting views on marriage and friendship.

Colman Domingo, Tina Fey, Erika Henningsen, Will Forte and Steve Carell in the “Four Seasons”.
Credits: Francesco Rome/netflix

The core of each couple Four Seasons From lack of communication to congestion, face your own problems. However, these terms are really just surface descriptors of complex networks, the complex networks weaved between Wigfield and Fisher. These relationships feel life, and each scene has years of history. Each pair is in the sun, just like each pair has some kind of explosion or breakout point in a certain process Four Seasons.

The same is true for the friendship on display Four Seasons. Imagine a full performance dedicated to Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan Story Arc White lotus Season 3, including all the behind-the-scenes gossip and a sentence of remarks, and true love for each other. No other guests brought the spotlight. Four Seasons Getting a deep dive into the dynamics of holiday friends is full of energy, and the result is immediately poignant and fun. For every joke or embarrassing misfortune of Nick and Ginny’s romance from May to December, Nick and Anne’s friends try to estimate a heartbreaking moment with their separation. How do you stay friends with two people you love when one hurts another?

Tina Fey, Colman Domingo and the entire cast Four Seasons shine.

Marco Calvani, Colman Domingo, Tina Fey and Will Forte in Four Seasons.
Credits: Jon Pack / Netflix

Four SeasonsThe cast matches the tone adjustment of the show, whether it is fighting the complexity of the relationship and the work in it, or making jokes about masturbation.

Fey’s humor is the perfect foil for Forte’s clumsy affinity, but the best work both have done in the second half of the season when Jack and Kate’s relationship broke down forced them to check out some hard facts. Domingo is an outstanding figure in OH-SO-Cool Danny, who went all out with Calvani about Claude’s troubles about Danny’s health. Kenney-Silver moves well between poor and revenge like Anne, and Carell miraculously ensures that Nick is a somewhat sympathetic character, not just a caricature of someone experiencing a midlife crisis. As a strange person in the group of friends, Henningsen nails Ginny’s vulnerability and occasional forgetfulness, and she and Nick both share this when interacting with Nick and Anne’s daughter, Lila (Julia Lester), Julia Lester (Julia Lester), and Anne’s daughter.

All these great performances and a range of picturesque resorts, from lake houses to ski resorts, Four Seasons Make summer carnival easy. Still, it does make you sneaky Four Seasons Winner, even if the jump is slower.

Four Seasons Now streaming on Netflix.