Four seasons

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Anyone watching? I think it’s brilliant. So funny on Gen x /Gen z differences and how long marriages really are

I couldn’t agree more - Anne made SC’s mid life crisis believable because she was so awful. That farm game. The cringy surprise vow renewal when she knew he was unfaithful. Her refusal to,let the new girlfriend be involved in the funeral (redeemed at the end I suppose). I could see her being terribly controlling with the new baby.

In a way that made SC’s character more sympathetic. He didn’t seem to meet the new woman until after the split and was clearly desperate for some joy.

I’m much too highly invested in this. Suffice to say it was nice to see something that examined emotions, life choices ,and what a grind long term relationships can be. And my DH loved it too and we had a proper conversation about the issues it raised. That’s a win.

@mnhqplease can you put a spoiler alert in the title? Thanks!

Glad someone else agrees!

also agree that Anne (plus SCs generally affability) made the breakdown so much more understandable/empathetic and i had way more sympathy for SC than I wanted to at.
the point when they went skiing i was like "God poor you....all you wnat is nice wine iland some decent skiing and you've been forced into this nonsense"

I was expecting more to be made of Tina Fey's character's daughter who didn't want to spend time with them.

i thought that too. In the scene where they met it seemed to imply that she’d had an issue or falling out with Anne’s daughter. But then it was not followed up at all. The only thing I could think of was that Kate’s daughter was embarrassed about the context of Layla’s play?

Finally finished this. Absolutely loved it. I called it at the end of Winter Part 1.

I love Tina Fey and SC, am heartily tired of murder, sci fi and dystopia, and generally love character driven comedy/drama, so wanted to love it but just didn't. I found it unoriginal and trite and overacted and a bit lazily written. Other than the reactions to the eco lodge, I didn't think it was funny. I found Anne intensely annoying and they all felt like caricatures more than characters.

@Violetparis and @delightfuldweeb I don't understand why they bothered giving the Tina Fey couple a daughter at all. They pretty much never mentioned her again. If you went to parents' weekend at your DC's uni and they didn't want to spend time with you, wouldn't that at least be a topic of quite a bit of conversation between you? I'd be devastated.

I think I must have seen the original at some point. I do have a soft spot for Alan Alda.

The original was a film in 1981. Ham fisted attempts to update the script and make it current just didn’t work , IMO.

I can't see Frank as a good guy. He let her make her vows! What a sadistic knobhead.

Who’s Frank?

Same!

Oh, sorry, His name was Nick!

I really liked it. I don’t think it was trying to be particularly amazing or profound (although it was quite acute about midlife relationships). It was just aiming at a solid, intelligent, well put-together drama-sitcom for people in their 50s. I do love Tina Fey though so I’m prejudiced. I cackled several times each episode.

agree Anne wasn’t very likeable, surprised Fey thought she was! I assumed it had been a deliberate choice to make her a bit irritating and controlling. None of the characters were ‘perfect’ and none were ‘awful’, (mostly) like real life.

I thought SC was killed off just before his plot line got interesting. I find him very charismatic so felt it was rubbish after that. It also felt like it didn’t know what genre it was; the immediate reaction to his death was ridiculous.

Loved it ! Was a bit like Friends

I wonder whether SC only signed up for one series. But it’s got to No 1 so Netflix must be pleased.

I loved this!! One of the best series I have watched in a while

I enjoyed it, found it a relaxing, easy and entertaining watch. I always love seeing resorts and different travel places so it was right up my street in that respect.

I liked the dynamic of their friendships, I'm of the same age group, so there's that feeling with long time friends of just rubbing up against each other, and accepting your friends for who they are in the long term.

I've seen three of my male school friends go through a similar mid-life scenario so I thought it was pretty realistic in that sense.

I don't really want to see another season tbh, just enjoyed it for what it was.

Was obsessed with Claude, I loved his character.

Just binged it all today… I really enjoyed. Nice and easy to watch

We liked it. Husband loves Tina Fey so we end up watching a lot of her stuff like 30 rock, Mean Girls etc

I liked this well enough. Agree with pp that some of the acting was hammy. The Nick death was a good direction for it to go in I think as it made it more interesting.

I enjoyed it too, much better than the Sex and the City reboot which obviously tried to appease a younger audience.

I agree, Ann was really annoying, especially for some reason her haircut. And I think we weren't supposed to find Claude a bit annoying? But we all dislike Ann and love Claude 😁

I mean WERE supposed to find Claude annoying. Gah

I found Claude annoying but seem to be in the minority on this thread. I found it hard to understand him too. Pleased there is going to be another series.

I found him very annoying too @Violetparis