The Four Seasons

I don't know how I binge-watched this so fast, I just found myself at the final episodes wondering how the time flied. The episodes are short and pretty fast-paced, so it's super easy to just continue with the next one without realizing how deep you've gone. Also, almost every episode ends with a little twist that hooks you into watching the next one.

I really liked the characters too and their interactions, there's a general feel-good vibe, which made it enjoyable to watch. The thing is... that's exactly why the ending caught me completely off guard. I didn't expect things to take such a turn, especially considering how light the rest of the show felt.

Definitely worth watching, just... be prepared for that ending.

I remember watching the original Alan Alda/Carol Burnett movie when I was younger, finding it amusing. Years later watching this remake, having gone through a divorce myself and realizing how friendship and family dynamics change during and after, I find this comedy to be on point! The storyline is not outlandish, the jokes land well, and the actors really do pull off what appears to be a decades long friendship with occasional speed bumps and misunderstandings.

Do not go looking for high art or deeper meaning. Watching this simply reminded me of my life, my friends, and how we've all changed over the years for better or worse, yet still remain friends.

I don't really understand a lot of the comments on here, both the ones in favour and against. I enjoyed the show for the most part. It's got an interesting mix of characters, and there's tension because one of the characters decides to leave their wife, which causes mayhem for the group of friends, comprised of three couples. It's not laugh out loud funny but there are plenty of amusing moments, mixed with mostly easy to digest drama. Where it really goes astray however is in the end of the second-last episode and the final episode, when the story takes a twist which just makes the whole show a downer. And totally takes the shine off of it. It wasn't necessary to go this direction at all. Given that the whole series tracks the original film pretty closely, I don't see why they needed to make this particular deviation which took the fun out of the whole thing.

I loved this limited series. Good cast, good script, I laughed out loud several times in every episode. The person whose review called it bourgeois sounded very bitter and was way off base in my opinion. I did not find the characters "out of touch" and there were no "lavish" vacations. One of them owned a vacation home that the all went to twice. One of the other trips was to their and their children's college for " family weekend" and the third was to a presumably inexpensive ie not very fancy Caribbean resort. I have seen the 1981 movie 2-3 times and was pleased with the way this version was similar but did not try to replicate the original. And I loved the ending which I was not expecting. Such an enjoyable experience!

I'm a gen Xer who watched, and liked, the original Alan Alda movie and it tells you something that the funniest bit in the 3 episodes i have seen is his cameo. This show has a charismatic cast that are let down by a script that simply doesn't quite dare to go where it probably needs to go to be both seriously funny and insightful. It tries, but it just seems a bit scared of itself and every time it goes close it runs away and hides.

A show about long term relationships should offer a fertile ground for both humour and pathos and yet it fails to seriously deliver on both counts. Yes, there are some funny moments...just not quite enough.