Critics Are Saying This 'Breezy' New Netflix Comedy Is Your Next Binge-Watch

Netflix’s caller reimagining of The Four Seasons is present streaming – and if the aboriginal reviews are thing to spell by, the level whitethorn person different large deed connected its hands.

Based connected the movie of the aforesaid name, the four-part bid stars Tina Fey (who besides serves arsenic its co-creator) alongside an awesome formed that includes Steve Carell, Will Forte, and Colman Domingo.

The amusement centres astir a radical of travel-loving, lifelong friends whose interwoven lives are turned upside down erstwhile 1 of the couples announces they’re getting a divorce.

So far, critics person praised Tina Fey’s comedic penning (the Mean Girls and 30 Rock writer besides penned respective of the episodes) and the show’s wide code which mixes cosy, low-stakes play with a fewer uncomfortable moments.

Meanwhile, immoderate of the much captious reviews person called retired the amusement for being a small dilatory and lacking successful drama.

Here’s a enactment of what critics are saying astir Netflix’s The Four Seasons… 

The Times (4/5) 

“The premix of Fey and her penning team’s operation of clever wordplay and wide drama is performed arsenic skilfully arsenic you would expect from a formed this strong, but it is astute alternatively than smart-arsed. Friendship groups successful existent beingness tin beryllium annoying, exclusive and excluding, but this 1 welcomes you successful and you mightiness beryllium amazed astatine however overmuch you bask spending clip with them.”

The Independent (4/5) 

“As groups of midlife professionals go, this ensemble is terrifically entertaining. Netflix has taken the unvarnished joyousness of the movie and added a slick overgarment of gloss.”

The Guardian (4/5) 

“The Four Seasons is afloat of decently comic lines, rooted successful decently middle-aged experience. In its drama and its play it captures the warm, weary affection for beingness and each different that lone aged friends and enduring couples truly know. It understands that aft a definite point, it’s not whether your different fractional ordered you the close sandwich from your favourite place, it’s that she did truthful astatine all.”

Digital Spy (4/5) 

“It’s a comfortableness amusement that isn’t acrophobic to propulsion you retired of your comfortableness portion a bit, hitting viewers with a astonishment acold drawback earlier settling backmost into the snug warmth that lone household tin bring, chosen oregon otherwise.”

AV Club

“Despite a fewer foibles, this much heartbreaking and little wry instrumentality connected middle-age friendships and crises is highly enjoyable.”

The Los Angeles Times

“A precise watchable, breezy, bumpy caller Netflix drama [...] it’s an big amusement successful the archetypal sense, notwithstanding a quality ‘only’ successful her aboriginal 30s, with jokes astir aches and pains, flagging energy, earlier bedtimes, the stresses of agelong relationships successful longer lives, and present and determination a consciousness of nostalgia for the radical they utilized to be. Many volition relate.”

USA Today

“With each these fantabulous performances and an array of picturesque abrogation spots from a water location to a skis resort, The Four Seasons makes for a breezy summertime binge. Still, it’s the substance that sneaks up connected you that truly makes The Four Seasons a winner, adjacent if it’s a slower pain from the jump.”

Variety

“Most notably, the code skews decidedly dramedic, trading a accelerated gait of punchlines for a much melancholy instrumentality connected semipermanent matrimony. The Four Seasons is yet capable to present immoderate astute insights into big relationships, but besides struggles to settee into this awkward caller rhythm. The Fey encephalon spot is visibly moving to grow its repertoire – an effort that, inevitably, comes with immoderate increasing pains.”