Sometimes, people just need a vacation from their vacations.
Netflix dropped the first teaser trailer for their new comedy series, The Four Seasons, and never has vacation seemed more stressful.
A remake of the 1981 film of the same name, the series follows three couples from the suburbs: Kate (Tina Fey) and Jack (Will Forte); Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), and Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani), who go on vacation together every season. But after one couple splits up during the first-weekend getaway, it begins to send the group into disarray, causing new and old tensions to rise again.
“It is rare to find your soulmate. And yet, somehow, all six of us have done it,” Jack says during a dinner party toast in the trailer, as the rest of the group awkwardly looks on, seemingly less assured in their relationships.
Along with Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield are co-creators and executive producers of the show, with David Miner, Eric Gurian, and Jeff Richmond listed as producers. The series also features Jacob Buckenmyer, Tommy Do, Jack Gore, Toby Edward Huss, Julia Lester, Ashlyn Maddox, Cole Tristan Murphy, and Taylor Ortega as guest stars.
In an interview with Tudum, Fey discussed their team’s inspiration behind this remake and what they are hoping audiences will get out of it.
“Tracey, Lang, and I have talked about the show being a love letter to long-term relationships, both platonic and romantic. Because your life is ideally more than just the person you’re married to,” Fey said. “Sometimes when you are struggling with something with just your spouse, you need a group of friends to bring humor to it. Those friendships really help marriages, I think. Having a person who just fulfills a part of you that your spouse can’t quite [fulfill] is very important.”
Will the couples’ relationships survive these vacations? Or are there more divorces on the horizon?
Tune in to Netflix on May 1 to find out.
