I can’t believe The Four Seasons killed this character - This Netflix theory has me shook!

The Four Seasons on Netflix had been going well, perhaps a little too well, until its penultimate seventh episode, which threw audiences for a loop. For a show like The Four Seasons, it was quite out of the box to kill one of its key characters off-screen in a drama that otherwise is abundant with a bright and hopeful narrative. Adapted from Alan Alda's 1981 silver-screen romantic comedy of the same name, The Four Seasons is an eight-part series that premiered on April 11, 2025, and has stirred conversation for both its charm and its curveballs.

The seventh episode of The Four Seasons, which dropped on May 2, 2025, saw the unexpected off-screen death of Steve Carell's character, Nick, and it is in this respect that the show differs from the movie. Here's everything that you need to know.

Four Seasons: The shocking death of Steve Carell's Nick

The storyline of Four Seasons starts by following three long-time couples who have been friends for decades and have grown accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle that involves getting away to vacation together frequently. However, things soon change when one of the couples undergoes a divorce.

This is the direction in which the show progresses until it does not. An unexpected turn of events results in the Netflix show abruptly killing off Steve Carell's Nick in a car accident offscreen. This happened while the other members of the group were away on a skiing trip in New York. While Carell's death caused considerable consternation among the audiences, I was rather expecting it, especially since the actor has an unbroken string of dying on his shows. Speaking to Netflix, Carell confirmed:

"It is a running joke now that I die in every TV show that I’m in, I’ve died in the last two, and now I die in this one. I hope to continue to die in TV shows well into the future.”

This was further reiterated by Colman Domingo, who also appears on the show. He stated:

"For someone who had divorced his wife and created chaos within these friend groups, it was such a loss because we were already losing him a little bit before, but now we’ve fully lost him.”

Four Seasons creators speak about Nick's shocking death

Speaking in an exclusive interview with TVInsider, Four Seasons co-creators Lang Fisher and Tracy Wigfield pointed out that the creative decision to kill Nick on the show was on their minds for quite a while and was necessary to implement a sense of reality:

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"We thought about killing Nick for a long time because it’s a big move, it’s not a move that’s in the movie, but (the show) does have the stakes of real life. And when you are friends with people for 20 years, they see you through the good and the bad. They’re with you through everybody getting married, they’re with you for parents dying, and sometimes when a friend dies.”

All the episodes of the show are available for streaming exclusively on Netflix.

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