If there is a specific rhythm to American comedy, it might sound suspiciously like a mashup of a Tina Fey eye-roll and a Steve Carell wince. One perfected the art of weaponized sarcasm in writers’ rooms, the other made silence so loud it could win awards. When those comedic frequencies aligned in The Four Seasons, the result was like a group chat you are grateful you are not part of, but can not stop reading.

Season 1 arrived with quiet confidence and left with loud group-therapy energy. Across eight episodes, it turned quarterly vacations into emotional battlegrounds. Viewers embraced its cocktail of cringe, candor, and carefully timed chaos, making it one of Netflix’s most talked-about adult comedies of the year.

And now, the suitcase is barely unpacked before Season 2 is already booked.

Netflix has confirmed that The Four Seasons will premiere its second season on Thursday, May 28, 2026, alongside first-look images that suggest the tans may fade, but the tension absolutely will not. Co-created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, the new installment once again follows the six friends navigating four vacations over the span of a year.

Returning cast members include Will Forte, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Marco Calvani, Erika Henningsen, and Colman Domingo. Season 1 notably featured Steve Carell as Nick, whose unravelling marriage to Anne (Kenney-Silver) detonated the group’s long-standing tradition of seasonal getaways. Carell’s performance was a masterclass in smiling-through-the-pain comedy, equal parts oblivious and, eventually, devastating.

The show, produced by Universal Television under Little Stranger, Inc., proved that middle-aged malaise can be both hilarious and alarmingly relatable.

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But what exactly made Season 1 feel like a vacation you could not leave early?

The Four Seasons chronicles three couples, Kate and Jack, Nick and Anne, Danny and Claude, whose decades-long friendship is rattled when one marriage fractures. Over spring brunches, summer beach trips, autumn retreats, and winter cabins, old resentments thaw and refreeze with brutal efficiency. Season 1 ended not with tidy bows but with emotional recalibration.

The divorce forced each couple to examine their own fault lines. Some leaned into reinvention, others clung to routine like a life raft. The genius of the writing lay in its restraint, arguments felt lived-in, not performative, and the humor often arrived a beat after the heartbreak.

The series is based on the 1981 film The Four Seasons, written and directed by Alan Alda. While the Netflix adaptation modernizes the anxieties with midlife crisis in group chats and passive-aggressive Airbnb reviews, it preserves the original’s thesis: friendship, like marriage, requires maintenance.

Season 2 promises eight new episodes and, presumably, four more trips where sunscreen cannot protect anyone from emotional exposure.

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Before May arrives, will The Four Seasons survive another year of shared villas and shared secrets? Share your thoughts in the comments.