Anonymous wrote:I am so obsessed with this show, I am about that age and have a very close friend group from school and found it so relatable, hilarious, and frightening at the same time. Watched the original and it was not as good, but maybe just dated. From reading all of these comments its obvious who is the real life version of the characters but can't see it.

You mean who are the Ann's? That's gonna be mostly what we see here on DCUM.

It was so boring, which is such a big disappointment considering it's tina fey.

I couldn't make it through episode 1.

I loved it.

I am so obsessed with this show, I am about that age and have a very close friend group from school and found it so relatable, hilarious, and frightening at the same time. Watched the original and it was not as good, but maybe just dated. From reading all of these comments its obvious who is the real life version of the characters but can't see it.

Anonymous wrote:I just binged it and thought this show was great. Surprised at all the negative reviews from this thread.

Loved seeing Gen Z(whatever Ginny and her friends are) through the eyes of Gen X. Wish more shows showed that perspective (said as a Gen Xer)

Ha. Just read the Jobs forum on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:In the original, the two girls were played by Alan Alda's real-life daughters and there was more backstory.

Are the characters supposed to live in Manhattan?

recently watched the original movie.

I thought in the movie there's LESS backstory on the daughters and Nick's kid was even more miserable and clinically depressed. I'm glad they gave her more of a voice in the new show, a voice through her awful play. All Nick in the movie does is tell her to smile, smile, smile for ME. Nick in the show played by Steve Carrell at least seemed to care about her and not just having her smile so he can feel better about himself.

I'm sure I'm doing some projecting here, but I think this probably reflects a greater appreciation of the impact of divorce on children now than there was 45 years ago. (Or probably not even divorce-specific ... just a more caring attitude toward children generally.)

My bias: my father split for greener pastures in the 70s and never, so far as I'm aware, gave any indication that he recognized this as even an inconvenience to anyone else. My own marriage has been solid, but friends who have gotten divorced seem to make an effort to keep a solid relationship with their children even if they don't get along so well with their exes.

I just binged it and thought this show was great. Surprised at all the negative reviews from this thread.

Loved seeing Gen Z(whatever Ginny and her friends are) through the eyes of Gen X. Wish more shows showed that perspective (said as a Gen Xer)

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Anonymous wrote:Some nice moments but overall fairly mediocre with tired stereotypes and trite jokes. I give it a B-

Tina Fey is not a good actress.
Steve carrel as Nick was good but he’s sort of a one to two note actor. I would like to see him stretch more.
Ann was great and I think she was purposely made a little clueless about her bad haircut and older lady clothes.
Ginny was also a good actress but they sort of wrecked her character with her friends who were flat stereotypes

The gay couple- too campy and stereotype ish.

The play- ridiculous and they could have delivered that message in a funny but more realistic way.

In the original movie, Nick was kind of an aging hot guy clinging to his youth and his pregnant girlfriend was a sexy young woman who filled his need to be younger. They portrayed the pregnancy as an accident as kind of a cautionary tale of when older guys get with younger women and unintentionally get a second family.

In the original, Ann was a hippy dippy weirdo played by Sandy Dennis. She was portrayed as kind of stuck in life and unable to understand why her husband Nick was unhappy in the marriage. Even her friends could not stand her and barely tolerated her.

I disagree with this assessment of the movie

Ann was lost and maybe depressed and searching for meaning. She was a photographer who photographers vegetables. She likely shrink into that life because Nick took so the air in the room and was a chronic cheater. She lost her self esteem after that, which is understandable.

It's not until after the divorce that she finally moves on and up in her career, photographing things for magazines like the other women has been trying to do (one was working at the magazine and tried to connect her but Ann couldn't do it when she was still with Nick).

In the movie Nick was clear about wanting to start over with a family. He seemed very excited about the pregnancy. I think he couldn't relate to his wife and his daughter as they both were deep feelers who drifted towards depression.

Anonymous wrote:In the original, the two girls were played by Alan Alda's real-life daughters and there was more backstory.

Are the characters supposed to live in Manhattan?

recently watched the original movie.

I thought in the movie there's LESS backstory on the daughters and Nick's kid was even more miserable and clinically depressed. I'm glad they gave her more of a voice in the new show, a voice through her awful play. All Nick in the movie does is tell her to smile, smile, smile for ME. Nick in the show played by Steve Carrell at least seemed to care about her and not just having her smile so he can feel better about himself.

Anonymous wrote:I didn't understand the brief scene with Karen and Jack's daughter at the college. Like there's clearly weirdness with Lila but then it's never brought up again. Why even include this character??

Agree. I really wanted to know the story there. Maybe they cut that part out for time. Or, it might come up next season?

In the original, the two girls were played by Alan Alda's real-life daughters and there was more backstory.

Are the characters supposed to live in Manhattan?

Kate* and Jack's daughter

I didn't understand the brief scene with Karen and Jack's daughter at the college. Like there's clearly weirdness with Lila but then it's never brought up again. Why even include this character??

Anonymous wrote:https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_four_seasons_2025/s01

This is on our list to try, it just came out today. Anyone want to give it a shot with me? It's Steve Carrell and Tina Fey.

Six old friends head for a relaxing weekend away only to learn that one couple in the group is about to split up. The three couples, Kate and Jack, Nick and Anne, and Danny and Claude, are completely upended by the news. Over the course of a year, we follow the friends on four vacations, and watch how this shake-up affects everyone’s dynamic -- sending old issues and new bubbling to the surface.

I found it trite and too long and too shallow and kept watching it. It was a waste of time.

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Anonymous wrote:I find Tina Fey deeply annoying, but I don't know why.
And the actress who played Anne seemed permanently bewildered, like a lost puppy.
Steve Carell was awesome, as was Erika Christensen.

Who did she play? I don't recall her being in this.

Love Erica Christensen, but she wasn’t in this show.

This is off topic and I'm not the one who said she was in this show, but does anyone else get her confused with Julia Stiles? For a long time, I didn't realize they were two separate people.

🙋‍♀️ me! I got them confused for the longest time!