Spoilers ahead for Season 1 and 2 of “The Four Seasons.”
Season 2 of “The Four Seasons” once again touches on the ever-changing dynamics between friends and partners.
From difficult conversations about adult loneliness, deciding to have a child or not, and what long-term marriages should look like, the Netflix comedy balances humor with heartache.
“Part of the show is about these long-term friendships and also long marriages,” co-creator, co-showrunner and writer Tracey Wigfield tells TODAY.com. “It was exciting to not tell love stories that are at the very beginning but decades in and talk about what marriage is really like. It’s not just boring and monotonous, sometimes it is, but it’s also funny and poignant and a million other things.”
Lang Fisher, co-creator, co-showrunner and writer, agrees, adding that aging and being empty nesters is a topic they really wanted to dig in.
“Sometimes in your 50s or 60s you are like, ‘Well, what is next? Is there a next? What do I do and who am I now?’” Fisher says.
Marco Calvani as Claude, Tina Fey as Kate, and Kerri Kenney-Silver as Anne in “The Four Seasons” Season 2.Courtesy of Netflix / Courtesy of Netflix
The end of Season 1 left viewers with an unexpected development. Nick (Steve Carell), who was married to and divorcing Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), was dating the much-younger Ginny (Erika Henningsen). After his sudden death in a car accident, his friends and Anne found out that Ginny was pregnant.
Season 2 begins with the group of friends, including Ginny, on a trip upstate to scatter Nick’s ashes on a mountaintop. Over their multiple failed attempts at having the moment be perfect, viewers learn that Kate (Tina Fey) and Jack (Will Forte) continue to have marital issues and Claude (Marco Calvani) and Danny (Colman Domingo) are at odds about having a child at their age. Anne and Nick’s divorce was not finalized and she was left with all his money, meaning Ginny wouldn’t get any child support.
But there was more to the story, with each individual character internalizing feelings, lying to themselves about what they really want and more.
Read on for what happens at the end of “The Four Seasons” Season 3 and where the characters leave off.
Kate and Jack
Tina Fey as Kate and Will Forte as Jack in “The Four Seasons” Season 2.Courtesy of Netflix / Courtesy of Netflix
Throughout the season, Jack has been committed to keeping his friend group intact and continuing their traditions despite the fact that everyone’s priorities are shifting. In a somewhat depressive and low mood, his behavior strikes a nerve with Kate, who only wants the best for her husband. His “wallowing,” as she describes it, also causes tension in their marriage.
Kate discovers that Jack’s issues run deeper and that he’s been smoking weed to help with his anxieties. She also gets upset when her hopes of starting a bed and breakfast with Danny are crushed because he’s moving to Italy.
Once in Italy visiting Claude and Danny, Kate encourages Jack to run a marathon to “turn this year around” and become “a new man.”
He struggles and she helps him cross the finish line, but not before they hash out why they have been so disconnected in their marriage.
“Something’s lurking, you wouldn’t be so obsessed with trying to fix me if there wasn’t something eating you up too,” Jack tells Kate.
She then tells him all her insecurities, which include being empty nesters and feeling like she doesn’t have a purpose. She also expresses feeling like she’s at the pinnacle of a career she’s worked all her life for “and it’s only OK,” as well as being upset that Danny moved, Nick died, aging, the world being a dark place and worried about her and Jack’s marriage failing.
“That was a very powerful moment,” Forte tells TODAY.com about Fey’s final episode monologue.
So will Kate and Jack’s marriage survive and does she still love him?
“She does,” Fey tells TODAY.com. “Her stuff is all her own stuff. We get to know a little tiny bit more about (her insecurities). We find out a tiny bit about how she grew up, and maybe why she’s afraid of big feelings.”
Fisher adds that Kate loves Jack “deeply” but are “just in a tough moment. “They fight really hard because they love each other so much,” she continues, adding that Kate’s go-to emotion is anger.
“But really, what she wants is for her husband to be (and feel) OK and she feels powerless,” Fisher says, adding that Kate is also dealing with her own personal issues and not good at expressing her emotions.
The showrunners’ hopes for the end of the season was for viewers to see that Kate and Jack are “two people who deeply love each other” and have a difficult time communicating, but are willing to figure it out.
Danny and Claude
Marco Calvani as Claude and Colman Domingo as Danny in “The Four Seasons.”Jon Pack / Netflix
Danny and Claude go through a roller coaster of emotions when deciding if they want to become parents. When one does, the other doesn’t and vice versa. Ultimately, they decide against it.
The two, however, move to Italy, where Claude is happy to be surrounded by his family after being away for so long. Danny has his own issues with the move but wants to make this work for his husband.
While Claude appears to be in control in Italy, Calvani tells TODAY.com that his character is “actually not” and believes he has to step it up to make Danny comfortable.
“He’s trying to fill the void of thinking he’s not enough,” Calvani adds.
When Danny’s mother is hospitalized, he returns to the U.S. and begs her to come to Italy with them so he can take care of her. She refuses. That’s when Marco makes an executive decision to return to the U.S. and help Danny take care of his mother.
Anne and Ginny
Kerri Kenney-Silver as Anne and Erika Henningsen as Ginny in “The Four Seasons” Season 2.Emily V. Aragones / Emily V. Aragones/Netflix © 2025
Anne begins her journey of self discovery. After being reluctant to include Ginny into their group, she offers Ginny and her baby a place to stay.
Ginny starts off “lying to herself” that she can handle her pregnancy all on her own, Henningsen tells TODAY.com. She soon embraces the help from the friend group and finds a close friendship with Anne.
When Anne becomes a little too hands on with Ginny’s baby, her friends encourage her to meet new people. A one-night stand with a guy they met during their vacation, Mark Brett, results in a comical misunderstanding and minor disappointment.
Kenney-Silver tells TODAY.com that in the beginning of Season 2, Anne is lost and keeps pushing along “with this complete terror and complete inability to complete the tasks that she needs to get to the next stage” of her life.
By the end, Anne forces Ginny to move out of her house so that she can have her own life with her baby and have room to grow. Anne also decides to stay in Italy and housesit Claude and Danny’s home.
Officially dubbing herself “Anne Classic,” the season ends with her meeting a man named Gianpiero (David Tennant). Could there be a real love interest in Anne’s future?
Will There Be a Season 3 of ‘The Four Seasons’?
On June 15, Netflix announced that they renewed “The Four Seasons” for a third season.
“We are thrilled to be able to bring a third season of The Four Seasons to life. Thank you to everyone who watched. Middle-aged people, LFG!” Fey, Fisher and Wigfield said in a press release.
Prior to the show being renewed, Wigfield told TODAY.com that with the “romantic cliffhanger,” she would love to see Anne have “a real love story that doesn’t go wrong right away.”
They also had ideas and “conversations that are interesting for all the characters that we hope we get to do more.”
Fey hoped that the cast and crew “travel some more,” while Forte was game for anything. “It is a dream job,” he said, adding, “I would do whatever.”