The Four Seasons - Netflix TV show

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**nO SPOILERS**

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciate that they didn't make the younger GF a cliche. Appealing character.

That was a surprisingly judgment-free storyline. If anything, he was relatively sympathetic because the wife's character was so deeply annoying.

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Cute, but doesn't hold a candle to the original. Too much trite updating.
Scenes that were dumb- the throuple

Stereotypical gay tropes
Stereotypical Gen Z crap- the sober gluten free vegans who don't know who Kenny Loggins is. Bad writing.
The college play. Come on! There were better more subtle ways to do that. It was just cringe.
If you want a mindless evening- or 2 evenings, ok, watch it.

But- the original Four Seasons made you think and feel.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate that they didn't make the younger GF a cliche. Appealing character.

That was a surprisingly judgment-free storyline. If anything, he was relatively sympathetic because the wife's character was so deeply annoying.

True. I really wanted to dislike him, but found it hard to.

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I liked most looking at the house interiors, so east coast. (I am on the west coast so it felt very exotic)

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Anonymous wrote:Cute, but doesn't hold a candle to the original. Too much trite updating.
Scenes that were dumb- the throuple

Stereotypical gay tropes
Stereotypical Gen Z crap- the sober gluten free vegans who don't know who Kenny Loggins is. Bad writing.
The college play. Come on! There were better more subtle ways to do that. It was just cringe.
If you want a mindless evening- or 2 evenings, ok, watch it.

But- the original Four Seasons made you think and feel.

This is my problem with all these remakes. The original was perfect as an example of mid life couples dealing with divorce in their friend group.

It was a very goox representation of upper middle class East Coast life in that era. Burnett, Alda, and Moreno are Hollywood legends. There was no need to "remake" this for 2025. Wtiters need to do something original and stop trying to recapture the glory of Hollyweod from the 1980's.

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I finished it last night. Not good.

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Anonymous wrote:Cute, but doesn't hold a candle to the original. Too much trite updating.
Scenes that were dumb- the throuple

Stereotypical gay tropes
Stereotypical Gen Z crap- the sober gluten free vegans who don't know who Kenny Loggins is. Bad writing.
The college play. Come on! There were better more subtle ways to do that. It was just cringe.
If you want a mindless evening- or 2 evenings, ok, watch it.

But- the original Four Seasons made you think and feel.

These are all really good points.

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Anonymous wrote:Trying so hard to see what you all liked about this. I just hated every bit of it -- and I watched the whole thing in part because of the positive comments here, trying to see if it would grow on me.

No one was convincing as longtime friends or spouses. It bummed me out how unattractive they all are and how ugly their clothes and stupid hats were. (That's not something I care about and don't know why it makes me cranky except maybe they screwed around with a movie I loved.) The editing and pacing were horrible. Maybe that's what happens when you stretch a single movie into 8 episodes.

This was godawful.

When they shared the backstory it became even more confusing. Only Danny, Kate and Jack are the college friends? Then Jack worked for Nick briefly until he got fired (he's a teacher now). I think I got that right. Anyway, I do not think Kate would be so chummy with her husband's rich boss who fired him's wife? I would think that's a very distant relationship. And why are Nick and Ann related to the college at all. Their kid wanted to go there? Or did one of them actually go to the college. I agree it doesn't make for such a close group as they are trying to be.

I thought Danny, Kate, and Nick were the college friends. Kate met Jack in college and brought him into the group.

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Anonymous wrote:Trying so hard to see what you all liked about this. I just hated every bit of it -- and I watched the whole thing in part because of the positive comments here, trying to see if it would grow on me.

No one was convincing as longtime friends or spouses. It bummed me out how unattractive they all are and how ugly their clothes and stupid hats were. (That's not something I care about and don't know why it makes me cranky except maybe they screwed around with a movie I loved.) The editing and pacing were horrible. Maybe that's what happens when you stretch a single movie into 8 episodes.

This was godawful.

NP. I’m not done yet but I tend to agree. It was meh. I think of Tina Fey as such a brilliant writer but this was just sort of corny with lots of flat jokes (sounding off a bull horn when you hear your friend have sex? Har har har har).

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I loved the original film, so I had low expectations for this series. Mainly I watched it to see Vassar campus and Beacon, NY scenes (DC is currently at Vassar).

It wasn't horrible; there were some funny scenes, but I had to completely separate it from the original film and consider it on its own (otherwise, it wouldn't hold a candle).

Most disappointing was the Tina Fey and Will Forte dynamic. Their situation was painfully accurate, but felt like a missed opportunity for these 2 talented comedians to be playing a pathetic bickering middle-aged couple.

Agree that the gay couple felt a little too campy/cliche.

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Watching it now. Eh

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Anonymous wrote:i hate nick and I'm glad he died

Yeah, the problem I had with the show is they never really convinced me that Ginni would be with him. I get that he has money, and maybe he was more romantic than guys her age. But all of her friends were not coupled up and she tried to come across it first that she was really into fluidity blah blah blah. And he was super messy with a teen daughter and an ex-wife? I just don’t buy it.

Like why would she get with this older dude and want to hang out his friends? It just wasn’t a convincing relationship to me. And it made no sense that after only a few months, she would’ve done the parents weekend. I also didn’t get that she was a dental hygienist! They should’ve made her the Pilates, instructor or something. It just didn’t track with her friends that she would be a dental hygienist. That’s kind of a working class job and she clearly comes for money as do her friends.

But I will say I did really love the show. It kept me hooked for sure.

I thought Ginny was realistic for a guy having a midlife crisis, up until we met her friends. The seemingly together and responsible dental hygienist didn't seem to match the friends who seemed younger and much more into fads to make money vs having a "normal" career.

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I have a cold and I binged the whole thing. Cried a lot in parts, which might have been the cold meds. But also a little bit of sadness over the idea of taking marriages and relationships for granted.

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I enjoyed it. I am definitely the target audience and even the stereotypes ran true to my experience as a college kid in the 90s.
My favorite part was the guitar guy singing candle in the wind. It just completely cracked me up and brought me back to college when Princess Diana died and Candle in the Wind was EVERYWHERE.