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The Netflix Comedy The Four Seasons Stars (Mostly) Actors who are in their 50s, playing characters who are in their 50s, in a show whose target demographic is (i assume) People in their 50s. Spreads that explains why this series’s great stretch is it it deep underestanding of how it hases to be a person-adultedly with some privilege and a geneerous serving of self-absorption-in the deepest of midlife, Staring Down Future with Empty Nests, and Potential The nagging fear that all chants for happinaness are way past their expiration dates.
The Age-Specificity of this Adaptation of the 1981 Alan Alda Movie, Also Called The Four SeasonsMay Limit Its Wide Appeal, As Could Some Conspicuous Flaws, especilly the Mismatched Energy with the Only Principal Gay Couple, Played by the Always Dialed-in Domingo and A Cloying Marco Calvani. But Co-Creators Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, Joined by Several of Their Formar 30 rock Writers, Put their establed flair for deconstructing Generational willsive to effective use in their to showcase all the enraction of middle-aged monogamy.
The passage of time and the personal growth (or a lack thereof) that accompanies it is baked into the comedy’s story Structure, which, like the Movie’s, Follows Three Couples on Four Vacations Over the Course of a Year. (I know: who has time for this many vacations?) The first episodes take place in the spring as kate (will forte) join fellow marries danny (Domingo) and Claude (Calvani) to the Longime Friends Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne ( Kenney-Silver) at their Lake House. The Occossion: Nick and Anne Are Celebrating Their 25th Wedding Anniversary. But it is not much of a celebration as it initily seames.
Privately, Nick Tells Danny and Jack That He’s Planning to End HIS MARIGAGE, WHICH HAS BECOME BORING AND LOVEless. When Jack suggests that it is normal for the longtime marred couples to the innings Feel Like Roommates, Nick Says Things are Worsse Than: “We’re like Co-Workers at a nuclear facility. We sit in the room all night, monitoring diffens Screens.” “” Some of the dialogue in The Four Seasons is so mercifting spot-on that it might you laugh, then immediately schedule an appointment for couples Therapy.
The targets the series hits do not consistently are jokes that in some way involve aging, whereather the literal aches and pains of it or the cognitive dissonance of young though you are reminding you definitely not. AFTER JACK HURTS HIS HIP PLAYING Ultimate Frisbee, He Complains to HIS WIFE ABOUT THE STRUGGLES AND ENDED COUNTING DOWN A HALLWAY TO GET ICE FOR HIS INJURY. “I can’t wait to see the 30 for 30 They make me about this, ”Kate Responds with a level of sarcasm one can muster only after listening to the same man Complain for decades.
This doesn’t technically count as a spoiler SINCE ITO HAPPENS IN THE 44-YEAR-OLD MOVIE, But you’re allerted nonetheless: nick Eventually Dating a Younger Woman, Ginny (Erika Henningsen), who finds the barrier around nick. Meanwhile, Nick’s Friends Are Flummoxed. Kate Kate Tells Jack That She Thinks Nick Has Turned Into A Zelig, He Deadpans, “Why Don’t You Explain What a Zelig Is To Ginny and How It Fom a Woody Alln Movie That You Like?” The Lack of Pop-Cultural Overlap Between Generations is a Running Themes Also Surfaces Wen Nick to Fit in With Ginny’s Friends. In one episodes, he tells a story that involves Kenny Loggins, then several minutes trying to explain to ginny’s 30-signi Squad Who Kenny Loggins is. (He built the Highway to the Danger ZoneKids, Show Some Respect.)
The nick-ginny Relationship is the Most fascinating and rich aspect of The Four Seasons Becuses it raises uncomfortable Questions for the which Group About their Own Marriages and the Offen Delicate Difference Betting Chasing Your Bliss and Being Selfish. The Main Characters in this series TEI to be Judgmental of One Another and, Sometimes, The Wider World in General. Cloud nick Danny if Kate and Jack are “Being Shitty” During Their Vacation at an Ecoresort, Danny Confirms that of Course Are. “You know Those Two,” he said. “Complaining is Their Version of Having Sex.”
But i don’t think The Four Seasons Necessarily wants us to find it Characters nice or tan Completely Likable All the TIME. It is more interested in decentting the insulatory that creeps into Friend Groups, for Better and Worsse, and the Thin Line BetWeen Comfort and Complacency in any Long-Term Relationship. The Show is Also Honest About the fact that in middle age, a lot of People will become more set in their ways and afraid of Change. That’s not a good thing, but it is a real thing.
IT’s unfortunate that The Four Seasons can’t keep things a little more real more consistently. There are some full of controls that don’t work. Also, Claude dotes on danny to such an extrame that i, a person who does not live inside this tv show, actually yelled, “Geez, back off!” out Loud at one point.
Spreads the most regrettable misstep is the finals, which taxes the series in a wildly different tonal directing and slides in a couple of Last-minute twists, including one bratantly designing to set a potential second season. But there are Enough moments that will will resonate with the gen-xers in the target demo to keep say clicking through episode.
If you’re in your 30s or 20s or Younger, The Four Seasons probably won’t be your jam. That’s Okay. That’s thiugh this netflix original is technical for adults of any age, it’s not really for you. IT’S MADE FOR PEOPLE OF A CERTAIN AGE WHO HAVE BEEN IN COMMANDED RELATIONSHIPS – Marriages as Well As Friendships – Thats Miraculously Stayed in Place During Multiple Presidentials. ITH’S ABOUT WONDERING IF THERE’S STILL SOMETHING MORE IN LIFE THAT YOU’RE MISSING, DELETING TO BE GRATEFUL FOR THE LONG, COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIPS YOU ALREADY HAVE.
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