The Four Seasons EPs Break Down That Tragic Twist, Tease Ideas for a Possible Season 2
Warning: This post contains spoilers for all eight episodes of Netflix's .
Netflix's The Four Seasons follows six friends through a year of their lives — and that year, sadly, ended in tragedy.
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In the penultimate episode, we learned that Nick (played by Steve Carell) died in a car crash while driving alone on New Year's Eve. His death sent shockwaves through the group, including his ex-wife Anne and his new girlfriend Ginny. The show managed to find some laughs amid the tragedy — Kate's haggling with the funeral director led to Nick's ashes ending up in an urn shaped like a red high heel shoe — but it was still a surprisingly dark turn for what had been a lighthearted comedy up until that point.
'It was a decision we thought about a lot,' co-creator Tracey Wigfield tells TVLine about the choice to kill off Nick. 'But it did seem like the right kind of thing, because when we pitched the show initially, we were very clear about: It's a human scale show. There's no murderer on the loose. It's the stakes of real life. But when you're middle-aged, the stakes of life do include death.'
She notes that 'a lot of times, it's a parent who is dying… and sometimes, a friend your age dies as well. So if our show is all about these long relationships and these friendships that see you through all of it, the good and the bad, it did feel correct to have that be included in our story.'
And the story might not end there: The finale seemed to point towards a possible Season 2, especially with Ginny announcing that she's pregnant. 'We would love to write a Season 2, if they want one,' co-creator Lang Fisher says. She and the writers 'have no ideas for what it would be yet,' she claims, but Wigfield disagrees: 'Well, we have some ideas!'
If Netflix does renew it for Season 2, 'we do know that we would bring the core cast back,' Fisher reveals. '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.' But beyond that, the possibilities are endless, she jokes: 'It could be in space!'
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