The Four Seasons friend group is getting back together: The heartfelt comedy series co-created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield has been renewed for Season 3. “We are thrilled to be able to bring a third season of The Four Seasons to life,” say the showrunners. “Thank you to everyone who watched. Middle-aged people, LFG!”
“It’s been a joy watching the chaotic, beautiful journey of these lifelong friends,” says Tracey Pakosta, vice president of US comedy series at Netflix. “Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield have a magical way of blending heart and sharp humor, making us feel like part of the inner circle. Audiences have fallen in love with these characters and this legendary cast’s electric chemistry. We’re thrilled to keep the vacation going for Season 3.”
Where will their new adventures take them? Will Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani) remain in Philadelphia? Who is that handsome mystery man introduced in the finale, and what will he mean to Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver)? Keep reading to learn everything there is to know about Season 3 of The Four Seasons.
Season 2 found the friends continuing their tradition of travel in the wake of Nick’s (Steve Carell) heartbreaking death at the end of Season 1. The first two episodes brought Kate (Fey), Jack (Will Forte), Danny, Claude, Nick’s pregnant girlfriend Ginny (Erika Henningsen), and Nick’s ex-wife Anne on a hike in upstate New York to spread Nick’s ashes — and confront some of their post-tragedy fissures. “They have to learn to re-form as a group in a different configuration,” Fey says.
They reunite on the Jersey Shore in Episodes 3 and 4, and meet a new friend (and potential romantic interest) in Mark Brett (Steven Pasquale). Episodes 5 and 6 juxtapose two Thanksgivings — the former is set in the present, and showcases how much the group dynamic has changed, while the latter flashes back to the COVID era, when Nick was still alive.
Lastly, the group packs their passports and heads to Trento, Italy, where Danny and Claude have moved to shake things up after deciding not to have a kid. In the final moments of the Season 2 finale, Anne meets her neighbor, Gianpiero (David Tennant). “Gianpiero” happens to be the exact name Anne assigned to a fake boyfriend earlier in the episode.
“When you have a relationship later in life, you’re not choosing a father for a baby; you’re just having a relationship, and you might choose someone very different,” says Fey. Will Gianpiero prove himself a worthy new crush, or just someone with whom Anne can share pants?
Debrief Season 2 with the cast and crew on Tudum: Learn more about the filming locations and the additions to the cast. Unpack Steve Carell’s flashback episode and the introduction of a dashing character in the last moments of the finale. Hear from Fey and Wigfield about their directorial debuts and get a sense of the cast’s offscreen chemistry with an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette and Calvani’s dream dinner party.
The squad’s itinerary for the next winter, spring, summer, and fall remains a mystery, but some of the cast members have pitched a few ideas to showrunners Fey, Wigfield, and Fisher.
Danny and Claude always brag about their “other, hotter” friend group, so Calvani hopes that in the new season, “we will explore our gay friends.” Domingo agrees, adding how much fun it would be to “take the straights on that vacation.”
In Season 2, Ginny, Nick’s much younger girlfriend, has earned her place in the group in her own right. “If we get to make more of these, she will remain a part of the friend group,” Fey promises. Henningsen believes in the power of manifestation, and she and her fellow castmates’ “favorite thing to do is to guess about where we’re going to go, just because that means that we get to keep shooting.”
As Kenney-Silver points out, it’s the time spent together that makes the experience of creating The Four Seasons so wonderful, not the vacations they take: “We have all agreed that even if we have to sit in a basement in Dayton, Ohio, we will be thrilled,” she jokes. “It’s been the goal from the jump,” says Fey. “Let’s get a group of people that are nice, gentle, and talented, have a lovely time, and hopefully convey that onscreen.”
With all the cast’s playful speculation, Fisher adds, “We can promise you there will be four seasons, and four locations, and people will be there on their vacations.”
We don’t yet know when the new adventure will come out on Netflix. In the meantime, stay tuned to group chat (Tudum) to learn everything there is to know about the Season 3 itinerary, and rewatch Seasons 1 and 2 while you wait.
