The Four Seasons is back for a second go-around but with one major difference — no Steve Carell.
The Netflix comedy — co-created by Tina Fey, Tracey Wigfield and Lang Fisher — premiered last year as a star-studded series adaptation of Alan Alda’s 1981 rom-com, following three couples as they go on vacations in spring, summer, fall and winter while navigating marital and friendship troubles along the way. Carell’s character Nick shook up the group when he suddenly divorced his wife Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) and began dating the much younger Ginny (Erika Henningsen); then, at the end of season one, Nick died in a car crash and Ginny discovered she was pregnant.
That means in season two the friends are in a much different place, with “this big hole in the group and how is everyone responding to that and how are people filling that hole?” Wigfield explained at the Los Angeles premiere on Tuesday. “New character dynamics are coming out because of that, and how does Ginny fit into the group?”
On top of Kenney-Silver and Henningsen’s characters, the rest of the gang is made up of married couples Kate and Jack (Fey and Will Forte) and Danny and Claude (Colman Domingo and Marco Calvani), who are all dealing with their own set of issues as explored through the quarterly trips. Carell’s character was, as Fisher pointed out, “the connector of the group — he has that personality that makes everybody do stuff and feels like he is the one driving some of these vacations — but when you take that guy out, does the group survive?”
