Tina Fey has admitted that a line in the first episode of her new Netflix series, Four Seasons, is something of an Easter egg for fans.
The comedy drama follows three couples, unglamorous middle-class lovebirds Kate and Jack (Fey, who co-created the series, and Will Forte), extravagant couple Danny and Claude (Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani), and increasingly miserable spouses Nick and Anne (Steve Carell and Kerri Kenney-Silver). Over the course of four holidays (pegged to each of the changing seasons), the group evolves.
*Warning — Major spoilers ahead for ‘The Four Seasons’*
However, in the penultimate episode of the series, viewers are dealt a shocking surprise: Carell’s Nick is killed in a car accident.
In a new video for Netflix, the cast broke down the tragic twist with Fey revealing that the rest of the actors only found out about the death during the table read for episode seven.
“Because we had all started to bond, it felt like we were losing a part of this group,” said Domingo.
Fey and Carrell then spoke about one of the final scenes he had with Julia Lester, who plays his daughter Lila, in which the pair reconcile — but not fully.
“Steve being the super kind person that he is, I feel like, you know, your instinct in that scene was to like fully, fully heal with her and we were like, we have to stop just shy of it because it takes longer in real life,” Fey said.
“Even though I knew my character's impending demise, I couldn't allow the character to have any knowledge of that at all,” Carrell said of his performance.
“You don’t know that it’s your last crack at these things,” Fey agreed.
Later in the interview, Kenney-Silver asked Fey “an insider writer question” about a scene in episode one. The scene in question sees Nick and Anne scare the others on their driveway by pretending to be zombies as they arrive at their lake house.
Fey’s Kate jokingly shouts, “One of you is going to die,” which of course comes true later in the season.
“That’s the closest we have to an Easter egg in the whole series,” Fey replied, smiling.
“See if we had listened, maybe we would have been more careful,” Kenney-Silver joked.
In his four-star review for The Independent, Nick Hilton called the show “a delight” and praised Fey’s writing.
“Just about staying the right side of low-key, and propelled along by Vivaldi’s violins, The Four Seasons is something of a delight. Life – and its relationships – might eschew easy metaphors, but Fey, like Alda and Vivaldi before her, has captured the subtle changes in temperature that moderate the climate of human existence.”
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