The Four Seasons Season 1: Release date and time, plot, and everything we know so far

Netflix is gearing up to launch The Four Seasons Season 1, a new comedy-drama series starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell, on May 1, 2025. Adapted from Alan Alda’s 1981 film, The Four Seasons Season 1 brings a modern take on the story of three longtime couples whose tradition of seasonal vacations is upended when one of the couples divorces.

Developed by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, the eight-episode series blends humor with an exploration of long-term relationships, both platonic and romantic.

The cast also features Colman Domingo, Will Forte, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Marco Calvani, and Erika Henningsen. Each episode of The Four Seasons Season 1 runs approximately 30 minutes and will be available globally at 12:00 AM PT.

When will The Four Seasons Season 1 be released?

The Four Seasons is officially scheduled to premiere on Netflix on May 1, 2025. Created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, The Four Seasons Season 1 will be available to stream globally at 12:00 AM PT, aligning with Netflix’s typical release schedule.

Tina Fey, who stars in the series alongside Steve Carell, Colman Domingo, and Will Forte, collaborated with Universal Television and Little Stranger, Inc. to bring the adaptation to life. The production wrapped filming in late 2024, with scenes shot in New York and Puerto Rico.

Plot summary of The Four Seasons Season 1

The official synopsis for The Four Seasons on Netflix reads:

"The decades-long friendship between three married couples is tested when one divorces, complicating their tradition of quarterly weekend getaways."

The Four Seasons Season 1 centers around three long-standing couples whose lives are deeply intertwined through decades of shared friendships and seasonal vacations.

Their comfortable dynamic is disrupted when one couple, Nick and Anne, decide to end their marriage. This decision sends ripples through the group, affecting how each pair confronts their own relationships across four trips during the year. The presence of a new, much younger partner further challenges the group’s stability, reshaping friendships and loyalties.

More about The Four Seasons Season 1

The Four Seasons reunites Tina Fey with Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, longtime collaborators from their 30 Rock days, to create a fresh, serialized adaptation of Alan Alda’s 1981 film.

The project, which took over five years to secure rights for, was described by Fey as a personal passion, with Fisher and Wigfield quickly getting onboard once they revisited the original story, as per The Hollywood Reporter report dated April 28, 2025.

Unlike their earlier comedy work, The Four Seasons Season 1 leans into more grounded storytelling. Tracey Wigfield told The Hollywood Reporter,

“Knowing Tina would star in this is what excited me because it felt tonally different than anything we’d done before. It’s grounded, it gets into deeper emotional stuff.”

The team emphasized that the production experience was notably positive, with Fisher adding, "I didn’t cry once!" regarding their smooth collaboration during development.

The series also allowed Tina Fey and Will Forte to play a married couple for the first time. Discussing their dynamic, Fey in a TVLine interview on April 24, 2025,

"I think we’re just at ease with each other because we’ve known each other a long time,....and that’s what people who are married a long time are like. It’s not the beginning of the book. It’s the middle of the book."

Initially pitched as a limited series, The Four Seasons could continue depending on audience response. As Wigfield noted, “We have ideas if it goes on,” suggesting room for the story to evolve while keeping the focus on the same group of characters.

Stay tuned for more updates.