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The Four Seasons Is Probably Not Your Thing


Unless you’re middle-aged. Then it’s very much your thing.

Perhaps that explains why this series’s greatest strength is its deep understanding of how it feels to be a person — admittedly with some privilege and a generous serving of self-absorption — in the deepest throes of midlife, staring down a future filled with empty nests, potential health issues, and the nagging fear that all chances for happiness are way past their expiration dates. But co-creators Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, joined by several of their fellow former 30 Rock writers, put their established flair for deconstructing generational issues to effective use in their quest to showcase all the enraging absurdity of middle-aged monogamy. The first two episodes take place in the spring as Kate (Fey) and Jack (Will Forte) join fellow married couple Danny (Domingo) and Claude (Calvani) to visit their longtime friends Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerry Kenney-Silver) at their lake house.

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