Netflix's new dramedy The Four Seasons is a funny and surprisingly emotional view of lifelong friendships and marital malaise. Based on Alan Alda's 1981 film of the same name, the series from Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield follows three pairs of middle-aged married couples as they take four vacations together over the year, each in one of the titular timeframes. By the final season, "Winter," the longtime friend group faces a devastating tragedy that changes their dynamic even more than divorce ever could.
With all eight episodes of the comedy series out, fans are wondering whether there will be more episodes following Kate (Fey), Jack (Will Forte), Danny (Colman Domingo), Claude (Marco Calvani), and the rest of the lovable cast. Read on for everything we know about the future of The Four Seasons so far.
What happens at the end of 'The Four Seasons'?
Season 1 of the Netflix series ends with an unthinkable tragedy. While the rest of his friends celebrate New Year's with a ski trip, Nick (Steve Carell) spends the holidays with his girlfriend Ginny's (Erika Henningsen) friends. The latter trip is awkward, and after a fight, Ginny goes on a hike with her friends while Nick makes a grocery run alone. We later learn, through Kate, that Nick got into a car accident on the way back. He died.
Exes Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) in The Four Seasons' "Fall" episodes.
The final episode, "Fun," centers on the group planning and hosting Nick's funeral. The entire group mourns, and Kate, Jack, Danny, and Claude rally to help Anne get through the proceedings. Ginny's there, and wants to contribute more, but a grieving Anne shuts her out. Mid-eulogy, Anne realizes that she doesn't really know Nick anymore, but she asks Claude to come up and speak instead of Ginny. Once they all get home, Ginny blows up at them that they'd rather have a horrible funeral (as symbolized by the "stripper shoe" urn) than let her be part of it.
While Jack saves Kate from drowning in a frozen lake with the help of Napoleonic strategy (long story), Anne finds Ginny, and the two women finally have a real heart-to-heart, realizing that neither of them has to be more important to him. The group of six reunites for dinner and starts planning their next trip together in his honor. They share a whiskey toast, but Ginny doesn't drink. The Four Seasons ends with Anne casually saying, "Yeah, she's pregnant."
Ginny (Erica Henningsen), moments before the cliffhanger reveal, in the Four Seasons finale.
Is 'The Four Seasons' renewed for season 2?
Yes! During Netflix's upfront presentation to advertisers in May 2025, just two weeks after The Four Seasons premiered on the streamer, it announced that a season 2 was confirmed.
Showrunners Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield shared a joint statement, per The Hollywood Reporter. "We are so grateful that audiences worldwide share our love of cozy sweaters, drinks by the ocean, and picking fights in a hot tub," they said. "See you on our next vacation together!"
The renewal came after the co-creators had been hinting to the press that they hoped to continue The Four Seasons. While the three of them spoke with Variety in an interview shared just one day after the show hit streaming, Fey coyly said, "We’re going to start talking next week, the three of us. We’ll see."
In a separate interview with TV Insider, the SNL alum added, “I feel like we sort of don’t dare to dream yet, but we did. Who knows. If we were lucky enough to do more of these, we’d certainly all like to hang out again."
Thankfully, she was write, and the comedy followed in the footsteps of other recent series that received quick renewals like Nobody Wants This and Running Point.
Besties Kate (Tina Fey) and Danny (Colman Domingo) during the "Winter" ski trip.
When will 'The Four Seasons' season 2 come out?
There's a chance that The Four Seasons could return sooner rather than later. Unlike some of Netflix's more VFX-heavy shows (ahem, Stranger Things), The Four Seasons arrived on the streaming platform fairly quickly after it was filmed in fall 2024.
Fey confirmed in a mid-June 2025 Deadline interview that the writers's room had been open for a month and was going along swimmingly. She said they were discussing feedback they heard from viewers and are deciphering how to proceed with more episodes. "...Now we’re figuring out, Okay, without the template of the original movie, what can happen that still feels in scale and realistic, but also entertaining? So it’s coming along," the TV legend explained.
If the writers are hard at work during early summer, and the show begins filming in the fall or early 2026, new episodes could arrive as soon as mid-2026.
Who in the 'Four Seasons' cast will return for season 2?
Almost all of the Four Seasons main cast will likely return for season 2, including Tina Fey (Kate), Will Forte (Jack), Colman Domingo (Danny), Marco Calvani (Claude), Kerri Kenney-Silver (Anne), and Erika Henningsen (Ginny).
After his character's tragic death, Steve Carell (Nick) isn't expected to reprise his role, unless the series includes some flashbacks. However, it doesn't seem likely. When Deadline asked Fey in a June 2025 interview if he'll be back in the form of flashbacks, she responded, "I couldn’t possibly say. We have our format. I mean, of the many mistakes I’ve made in my career, killing him will hopefully go down as the biggest."
Fey added, "We had a really funny group text chain that when we got picked up for season 2, everyone was like, 'Yay, hooray, blah, blah.' And then five minutes after everything, Steve just wrote, 'I’m dead.'"
While we may not see more of Carell, our fingers are crossed that Julia Lester will return as Lila, so she can debut her new play about welcoming a half-brother.
Were The Four Seasons to return for season 2, it seems likely that almost all of the ensemble would return.
What would 'The Four Seasons' season 2 be about?
The plot of the second installment is hard to guess for a character-driven show like The Four Seasons. While speaking to TVLine, co-showrunner Fisher kindly summed up what we could expect for a second season at this point.
She said, "We do know that we would bring the core cast back. It wouldn’t be, like, an anthology. We would keep our group because I think that’s what makes the show so great, this particular group. You’d know there would be four trips [and] still the same four seasons."
Claude (Marco Calvani), Anne (Kerri Kenney), and Danny (Colman Domingo) lounge during the "Summer" trip.
Meanwhile, the co-showrunners hinted to Variety that Ginny's pregnancy would be a significant part of the new season, as she and Anne have now bonded and will always be connected through Nick and Lila. Beyond the cliffhanger, relationship woes could affect the rest of the couples.
"I think the heart of our show is this group of friends, and obviously there will be a little bit of a change in that," Wigfield told the outlet. "There’s no Nick, and Ginny’s pulled in whatever way that she is. But I think I’m looking forward to the opportunity to look at these couples and what we had them go through in the first season, and think about in relationships that are so long, what is the next thing that you’re going through? And what are more things that kind of can throw your relationship for a loop in bad and good ways?"
Fey has also shared some updates on what the writers are thinking about. While speaking to Deadline, she teased that we might see how Anne will "bounce back" and "at what pace," as well as how they're thinking about the show's "container plate," or how it only follows the characters when they're on vacation. "We definitely want to keep the format of only seeing them when they’re together, only seeing them over four occasions," she shared, joking that they are not always "lavish" trips that the characters are taking.
Regardless, we can't wait to see where their next holiday leads!