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Tina Fey’s ‘The Four Seasons’ Takes a Step Outside the Comedy Icon’s Comfort Zone, but Doesn’t Thrive There: TV Review

Tina Fey's remake of Alan Alda's 1981 film as a limited series for Netflix struggles outside the comedy icon's comfort zone.

Fey even stars as a grouchy, judgmental, Liz Lemon-scented woman embracing her middle age, alongside previous screen partners Steve Carell (“Date Night”) and Will Forte ( Paul L’astnamé! (Three seasons are respectively helmed by Fisher, comedy fixture Oz Rodriguez, and married duo Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman; Richmond and Domingo split duties for Fall.) Aurally, the show maroons sight gags like a pedal-powered booze bus or a clumsily staged piece of theater, leaving the viewer with mixed messages about how grounded this world is meant to be.

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