Netflix’s newest comedy series, The Four Seasons, is based off the 1981 film of the same name starring Alan Alda and Carol Burnett, so you wouldn’t be off base to assume the 2025 TV version was intended as a one and done limited series. But if you’ve watched all eight half-hour episodes (and consider this your spoiler warning now if you haven’t), then it’s obvious the writers intend to keep telling the story.
Episode eight ends—again, spoiler warning—with Nick’s (Steve Carell) funeral after a car accident, at which his much-younger girlfriend, Ginny (Erika Henningsen) reveals that she’s pregnant. It’s a stunning development, especially for Nick’s ex-wife Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), who is still reeling from his sudden passing.
As of May 1—the day the series launched on Netflix—it hasn’t officially been renewed for a second season, but who wouldn’t want to spend more time with Fey, Kenny-Silver, Henningsen, Colman Domingo, Will Forte, and Marco Calvani in some of the most picturesque locations on earth? (Hey, Netflix: More lakeside scenes, please.)
In fact, when Glamour spoke with Kenney-Silver on Zoom, she not only confirmed that everyone involved hopes for more seasons, but explained how the film version differs from the TV adaption as well as what’s next in Anne’s complicated journey. Read on to see what she had to say.
Glamour: I would imagine after that cliffhanger, you’re hoping for additional seasons of the show instead of this being a limited series. Is that the case?
Kerri Kenney-Silver: We’re all dreaming for more. We would do this show till they turn the lights out. It has been the most fulfilling experience for all of us. We all have our fingers crossed, but you never know what’s going to happen. I don’t care if the next season is in a basement in Dayton, Ohio, and there’s some sort of lockdown. I would show up. Selfishly, as an actor, I just want to be around these people. I would follow Tina Fey anywhere.
In this version, Nick (Steve Carell) dies. Does that also happen in the 1981 film version?
Not at all.
Were you stunned when you read this, or did you know ahead of time?
I gasped when I read the script, and it was right before a table read. We were Zoom table reading since we were on different coasts. I had to compose myself before the Zoom because I did not see that coming, and I don’t think the audience is going to see it coming.
After Anne finds out about Nick’s death, Terry (Toby Huss) breaks into song on the guitar by singing a rendition of “Candle in the Wind.” That scene nearly killed me as a viewer, so what was it like for you?
That scene with Toby Huss playing the guitar…I rewound that 15 times. How can you write something that is equal parts soul-sucking, gut-wrenching, the saddest thing you’ve ever seen in your life, and in a millisecond, you are laughing so hard that you’re crying?
Also, the way we find out when Anne gets the most horrific information delivered to her, while we see Toby and his little naked tushy, and then Will’s character getting frustrated and saying, “Terry, get out!” To have these high, high moments of comedy with these deeply painful moments; Tina threads that needle like nobody else. That’s why she’s the GOAT.
Then we get the reveal at the end that Nick’s girlfriend, Ginny, is expecting. I did not expect that at all. What excites you about potentially getting to play that storyline in a season two?
Anne needs to be needed, and she needs a purpose. She doesn’t know what it looks like to just be Anne in space. I’m not saying that’s necessarily a good thing, that she’s always searching for what that other half is or that other thing that’s going to fulfill her, but she is at this point in her story. I think there’s hope there of continued connection of; she’s come full circle, and in the end, she did find connection with the least likely person in her current orbit. Now, here comes this little baby who is the child of the man she loved. There’s so much to it. The juxtaposition of what Lila, our daughter, says, “Can we just admit that Ginny is just mom in a younger body?” There’s so much there. It’s a beautiful mess.
It truly is. I was devastated for Anne because her story is so relatable, whether you see your ex with a new partner, or having to start over again when you don’t want to. And now this. I want to see another season, but getting this cast together seems like a logistical nightmare. That’s why I assumed it was maybe a limited series.
Well, you would think it would be, and the logistics would be, I think, on any other project…but to a person, everyone in this cast feels like this is a dream scenario, a dream space, and making it was like floating on an inner tube. Who doesn’t want that?
For more with Kerri Kenney-Silver and The Four Seasons, read her profile here.
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