Netflix has released Season 2 of The Four Seasons, with eight new episodes now streaming. The comedy-drama reunites Tina Fey, Will Forte, Colman Domingo, Marco Calvani, Kerri Kenney-Silver and Erika Henningsen as the group continues its holiday tradition after a life-changing Season 1 finale.
The new season picks up in the aftermath of Nick’s sudden death, with Ginny revealing she is pregnant with his child. As Kate, Jack, Anne, Danny, Claude and Ginny try to move forward without him, their usual group trips take on a different emotional weight. Grief follows them from place to place, old friendship tensions start to surface, and Ginny’s pregnancy gives the group one more change they are not quite ready for.
Season 2 takes the friends through a fresh set of destinations, beginning with a spring hike in upstate New York to spread Nick’s ashes. From there, the group heads to the Jersey Shore, returns to Anne and Nick’s lake house for Thanksgiving, then eventually travels to Trento, Italy. Danny and Claude also find themselves pulled towards Philadelphia, adding another personal stop to the season’s itinerary.
The main cast sees Tina Fey return as Kate, Will Forte as Jack, Colman Domingo as Danny, Marco Calvani as Claude, Kerri Kenney-Silver as Anne and Erika Henningsen as Ginny. Steven Pasquale joins as Mark Brett, a Jersey Shore arrival who crosses paths with the group while Jack is still deeply feeling Nick’s absence.
Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield are back as creators, showrunners and executive producers, with David Miner, Eric Gurian and Jeff Richmond also executive producing. Alan Alda, whose 1981 film inspired the series, produces alongside Marissa Brennan, Universal Television and Little Stranger.
For CultureCues, The Four Seasons is definitely on our watchlist. We loved Season 1 because it had that cosy, easygoing comedy feel, but it never treated the harder parts of the story like an afterthought. Nick and Anne’s marriage breaking down gave the series a real ache under the holiday set-up, then the finale’s sudden loss of Nick added a proper gut punch and left us wondering where Season 2 could possibly go next. Season 2 now seems set to follow them through that grief as they try to keep their tradition going without one of the people who helped hold it together. It is still a comforting ensemble comedy at heart, but there is clearly a lot more going on underneath, which is exactly why we are looking forward to watching.
The Four Seasons Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
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