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When Four Seasons landed on Netflix, it felt a bit like stumbling across an old letter you’d forgotten you kept, unexpected, familiar, and somehow exactly what you needed. From the very first scenes, you could sense it wasn’t just another polished comedy trying to impress. Four Seasons had something different running beneath it: a real affection for the small, beautiful ways our lives shift over time. The landscapes weren’t just background scenery; they wrapped themselves around the story, making you feel like you could step right into that world, touch the air, hear the crunch of leaves, or the hush of falling snow.
But where, exactly, was all this magic captured? Let’s wander through the places that helped Four Seasons come alive.
What makes Four Seasons stand out isn’t just its humor or its heart; it’s how quietly and truthfully it captures the rhythm of real life. The friendships, the regrets, the little victories... they turn right alongside the seasons. Not everything is a grand, sweeping moment. Sometimes, it’s just a glance that says everything, or the simple choice to stay when leaving would be easier. The show gives space for those quiet moments to breathe, and maybe that’s why, long after the final scene fades, it still lingers with you.
There’s something quietly brave about a show like this, one that doesn’t shout its meaning but trusts you’ll find it tucked into the smallest details. Four Seasons doesn’t rush you. It asks you to slow down, to notice how the light shifts from spring to summer, to fall, to winter, and how, somewhere along the way, we shift too, almost without realizing it.
What is Four Seasons about?
At its heart, Four Seasons is a story about friendship in all its messy, beautiful, and complicated forms. It follows three couples, Kate and Jack, Nick and Anne, and Danny and Claude, who, over the years, built a bond strong enough to survive vacations gone wrong, inside jokes no one else would understand, and the quiet passing of time.
But when one couple announces they’re getting divorced, it’s like someone pulls the thread that’s been holding them all together. Suddenly, nothing feels certain anymore. Every relationship, every promise, every memory is put under a new light, and they all have to face a tough question: What does it really mean to stick around when everything is changing?
Created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, the series doesn’t just show how friendships look on the surface, it digs into how they stretch, snap, and sometimes, if you’re lucky, find a way to hold on anyway.
What makes the show shine isn’t grand speeches or dramatic twists. It’s the quiet, stubborn hope stitched into every moment, the simple, aching truth that sometimes just holding on to each other is enough. No one’s trying to change the world here. They’re just trying to hold on to the pieces of it that still matter. It’s funny in the way life is funny, sad in the way life is sad, and always a little too real, in the best possible way.
Meet the characters
Kate (Tina Fey) is trying to keep traditions alive even as everything around her shifts.
Jack (Will Forte) struggles with the idea of change and losing the life he thought he had figured out.
Nick (Steve Carell) is the friend who tries to patch things together, even when it’s clear that not everything can be fixed.
Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) hides her own fears behind humor and small talk.
Danny (Colman Domingo) is caught between loyalty and the need to move forward.
Claude (Marco Calvani) faces the pain of being the catalyst for change, knowing it might cost him more than he imagined.
Their reunions aren't always easy; old wounds flare up, laughter slips into resentment, and silences stretch longer than anyone would like. But beneath it all, there's an unspoken promise: I'm still here. You're still worth it.
How the seasons shape the story
The choice of locations wasn't just aesthetic; it was emotional. Every setting was handpicked to mirror the characters’ inner worlds at that moment in their lives.
Winter — Mount Peter, Warwick (New York): The snowy slopes, the quiet ache of cold air, were perfect for episodes where nostalgia and regret hung heavy.
Spring — Glynwood Farm, Cold Spring (New York): Scenes bursting with new growth and tentative hope, much like the characters themselves.
Summer — El Conquistador Resort, Fajardo (Puerto Rico): Sunlight, saltwater, and the kind of reckless joy that makes you believe, just for a moment, that anything is possible.
Autumn — Beacon and Newburgh (New York): Streets cloaked in gold and crimson, a perfect backdrop for letting go of old dreams and daring to imagine new ones.
Watching the show, you can almost feel the seasons settle into your bones. It's not just scenery; it’s another character, breathing alongside everyone else.
Other series that played with seasons
Four Seasons isn't the first to lean into the poetry of the calendar. Gilmore Girls wrapped its coziness around fall leaves and winter snow. This Is Us used holidays as emotional landmarks, guiding us through generations of joy and loss. But Four Seasons feels less like a map and more like a journal, messy, personal, full of scratched-out hopes and unexpected grace.
The cast: old friends we’ve missed
Tina Fey brings her sharp wit and deeper emotional gears honed in 30 Rock. Steve Carell reminds us (as he did in The Office and Foxcatcher) that heartbreak and humor are never very far apart. Colman Domingo carries the quiet intensity we've loved since Fear the Walking Dead and Rustin. Will Forte brings his unique balance of comedy and vulnerability, while Kerri Kenney-Silver and Marco Calvani round out the ensemble with heart and humor.
Together, they don't act like old friends; they simply are. You believe in them, root for them, and hurt with them. That’s rare. And it’s precious.
Audience reaction and critical praise
Since it dropped on Netflix, Four Seasons has been quietly weaving its way into people’s lives, not with flashy headlines, but in the soft, steady way that real stories do. Critics have called it unforced warmth and praised its deceptively simple brilliance, but maybe the real proof is in the little things: the posts fans keep sharing about scenes that made them laugh a little louder, cry a little harder, or reach out to someone they hadn’t spoken to in what felt like forever.
The show is currently holding strong with an 81% score on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 21 reviews. But honestly, Four Seasons isn't the kind of series you rate; it's the kind you feel. It's the show you’re still thinking about days later, when a smell or a song brings you back to something you didn’t realize you'd been missing.
In the end
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Life doesn’t announce its biggest moments. Change comes quietly, in a summer sunset, a winter walk, a spring rain. Four Seasons gets that. It reminds us that love, friendship, and forgiveness don’t always arrive with fanfare. Sometimes they show up in the ordinary moments we’re lucky enough to notice.
And when you watch this show, you remember: maybe growing up isn’t about losing magic. Maybe it’s about recognizing the magic that was always there, waiting, season after season.
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