Among the guests of HBO Season 3 White lotus They were three childhood friends, and they were immediately obvious and could not stand with each other. From the moment they got off the boat, the 40s were passively attacking and talking behind each other's backs. However, at the end of the week, people sincerely reflect the meaning of how time gives them bonds. "We started this life together. I mean, we are separated. But we are still together." "I look at you and it feels meaningful."

I recall the speech while watching another unpleasant group on Tina Fey's new Netflix show Four Seasonsbased on Alan Alda's 1981 film. The inherent value of sharing history may be the only explanation for why its members continue to attract each other to take four (!) group vacations each year, although limited evidence suggests they like each other’s companies. But if time gives people weight Their Relationship, I can't say that the same is true for this series. Its eight and a half hours didn’t take as much time as it just took, hating in harmless ways, but it was too boring to cherish.

Three couples fairly with center Four Seasonsthe friendship between them seems pretty good, even if you have a very strange chemistry with the simple and traits expected by people who claim to know each other for decades. It is marriage that is moving towards the rocks. No one except Nick (Steve Carell) knew that the group gathered a Lake House weekend to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) as he had decided to leave her.

The news blinded friends much more than Anne, causing their lives to be confused. More than three trips - a nasty eco-friendly hotel summer vacation, a fall Vasa University parents’ weekend and New Year’s Eve ski resort - we watched the remaining two pairs of the remaining Gemini were forced to check the cracks in their relationship through storms and metaphors.

Four Seasons With a compelling lineage. In addition to Carell and Kenney-Silver, its cast includes Fey as Uptight Kate, her anxious husband Jack, Colman Domingo, who is her coolest friends Danny and Marco Calvani, who are his wealthy husbands Claude. Fey is also from Tracey Wigfield (NBC Good newspeacock's Saved by the bell Restart) and Lang Fisher (Netflix I've never). Even after the first two chapters (directed by Oscar nominees Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini), the name list alone is enough to maintain high expectations.

well. Each plot begins with a seasonal image of blooming flowers or trees, dripping frost on the corresponding Vivaldi concerto, from which they rarely get memorable. Four Seasons Not the same as Fey's joke delivery 30 Rocks And its spiritual successor, which is good. But I found myself wishing it retained at least the humorous humor of some of these shows, the tight rhythm or especially the quirky world building.

Instead, we get a lot of stuff just… there. There are a few sharp lines (one of my favorites is Nick's evocative description of marriage, as he is "like a colleague at a nuclear facility - we sit in the same room all night, monitoring different screens"), and occasionally solid comedy rewards, but not enough Four Seasons Any special sense of humor. There are some pleasant sweet moments and some poignant moments, but few characters are thin because the characters are thin.

Danny and Kate are one-dimensional sour tastes strong in the thief's shared doubts about emotions and contempt for their spouses. As for what the husband said, they were exhausted in different ways, but still somehow similar: Jack easily boned, Claude about melodrama, and they both needed their partner, not what their partner needed. Nick embodies the stereotypical midlife crisis until the sexy new car and sexy new girlfriend, and the show almost tries to pretend that it is deeper than that. These characters are not personality quiz results.

The exception is the two women on Nick's track. Kenney-Silver's performance as Anne is fascinating, balancing the pain in sorrow and sadness. You see in her broad eyes the internal war between her despair and anger at the end of her old life, and her desire for a new outbreak. Erika Henningsen succeeds in evolving Nick's adventure young girlfriend Ginny from an annotated joke (as a character means: "(her personality is crouched), becoming a conflicting woman who tries her best to meet her boyfriend.

Anne and Ginny's this The damage series seems to be more interested in watching the old arguments between Kate, Jack, Danny, and Claude. Four Seasons It is true to position yourself as an honest examination of marriage, and indeed, in any long-term, close relationship, some disagreements will be repeated enough to form a nearly unparalleled groove. But when these dissatisfactions are basically all We were allowed to see these people, and even happier moments began to feel like they were set for the explosion.

Four Seasons Ending with an incredibly romantic attitude, a character even came up roughly on the concept of a “soul mate” they had ridiculed earlier. But I think its heart is in cynical people who see marriage as a source of work rather than comfort. I think if you have a quarter century of memories, a kid you both love and you both have your own house, then you might find it worth keeping everything - just because lifting everything seems to be real pain.

Luckily for me, what I have Four Seasons It's four hours of history. I was so satisfied that I could label them as memorable pieces and go on for the rest of my life.