The Four Seasons was a famous 1981 movie starring the likes of Carol Burnett, Alan Alda, Rita Moreno and Sandy Dennis. Tina Fey was just a young girl of 12 when she first saw the romantic comedy film and it stayed with her so much that she decided to remake it as an eight-part series for Netflix along with fellow 30 Rock writer-producers Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield.
Tina Fey says: “Tracey, Lang, and I have talked about the show being a love letter to long-term relationships, both platonic and romantic because your life is ideally more than just the person you’re married to. Sometimes when you are struggling with something with just your spouse, you need a group of friends to bring humor to it. Those friendships really help marriages, I think. Having a person who just fulfills a part of you that your spouse can’t quite [fulfill] is very important.”
The Four Seasons series also sees a reunion of Tina Fey and Steve Carell who starred together in Date Night.
So here's everything you need to know about The Four Seasons on Netflix...
The Four Seasons release date
The Four Seasons will launch worldwide on Netflix on Thursday, May 1, 2025.
Is there a trailer for The Four Seasons?
Yes, in the teaser trailer you can see this version of The Four Seasons with the various trips the friends go on... often with hilarious consequences!
Here's a trailer for the 1981 movie that inspired Tina Fey so much. Take a look below...
The Four Seasons plot
Six old friends head for a relaxing weekend away only to learn that one couple in the group is about to split up. The three couples, Kate (Tina Fey) and Jack (Will Forte), Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), and Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani), are completely upended by the news.
Over the course of a year, we follow the friends on four vacations and watch how this shake-up affects everyone’s dynamic — sending old issues and new bubbling to the surface
Meet the couples in The Four Seasons
Here's a brief guide to the couples in The Four Seasons...
Kate and Jack
Hypochondriac Jack (Will Forte) and his straight-talking wife Kate (Tina Fey) have had a long marriage filled with the usual ups and downs. But when their old friend Nick meets the exuberant and much younger Ginny (Erika Henningsen), it ends up holding up a mirror to their own relationship, with plenty of comedy consequences!
"In the beginning, they’re probably the healthiest couple and they might think they're much better than everybody else at being married," says Tina. "But they need to be just taken down a peg!"
Nick and Anne
When Nick (Steve Carell) announces that he’s planning to leave his wife Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) after 25 years of marriage, it shifts the whole dynamic within the friendship group, even more so when he decides to bring his new love interest Ginny on the friends’ group holidays.
"Nick believes that dating somebody younger gives him a new lease of life," says Steve, 62. "He knows he looks ridiculous at times and he knows all the things everybody is saying behind his back, and he doesn't care, because it's too much fun and too invigorating!’’
Danny and Claude
Gay couple Danny (Colman Domingo), an architect, and Claude (Marco Calvani), who’s a stay-at-home husband, find their marriage under strain when Danny begins to suffer with heart problems and needs urgent stent surgery. But in the aftermath of the op Claude’s over-attentiveness becomes suffocating for Danny.
"The problem for Danny and Claude is that Claude has a lot more time on his hands so he puts all his attention on Danny!" says Colman, 55. "They’re also beginning to deal with the heavier realities and subjects that come with age."
The Four Seasons cast — Tina Fey
Actress and comedian Tina Fey plays Kate in The Four Seasons. "It’s a love letter to long-term relationships, both platonic and romantic," says Tina. "I hope audiences feel like they’re inside a big sweater with us, and also having a dinner party with us.
"If you’ve never seen the original movie, it has a very simple premise. It follows a group of old friends, three couples over four vacations. We never see them at home, we never see them at work. We just see how their lives change over a year by hanging out with them on vacation.
"With Alan Alda’s permission, we’ve taken his movie and built it out into an eight-episode comedy series. It’s like a love letter to long-term relationships, both platonic and romantic, because your life is ideally more than just the person you’re married to.
"Sometimes when you’re struggling with something with just your spouse, you need a group of friends to bring humour to it. Those friendships really help marriages, I think. Having a person who just fulfils a part of you that your spouse can’t quite fulfil is very important."
* Tina Fey is best known for Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. She has also starred in Date Night, Sisters (see pictured below), Mr. Mayor, Mean Girls and Only Murders in the Building.
Steve Carell as Nick
Steve Carell will play Nick in The Four Seasons.
He previously starred in the US version of The Office and has also appeared in The Morning Show, The Patient, Saturday Night Live, Foxcatcher, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Evan Almighty and The Anchorman films.
Who else is starring?
The Four Seasons series also stars Colman Domingo (Rustin), Will Forte (Bodkin), Kerri Kenney-Silver, Marco Calvani and Erika Henningsen.
All about 1981 movie The Four Seasons
The 1981 romcom The Four Seasons was written and directed by M*A*S*H actor Alan Alda, who also starred in the movie. Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno, Jack Weston and Bess Armstrong made up the cast of the film, which followed three middle-class married couples from New York who holidayed together four times a year. But then one of the friends left his wife and started a relationship with another woman, throwing their vacations into turmoil.
