Sad, Realistic, and Brilliant — Why You Must Watch "The Four Seasons"
Today, I want to invite you to watch the series "The Four Seasons," co-created by the wonderful Tina Fey, who also plays one of the main roles. Created alongside Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, this show will definitely resonate with audiences because it is just like all good bittersweet comedies — sad and deeply realistic.
What is the show about?
The Four Seasons follows a close-knit group of longtime friends who continue their tradition of quarterly weekend getaways. Four seasons, four trips meant to be an escape from mundane daily life.
But underneath the humor and luxury summer houses lies something much heavier. These cyclical getaways become a ruthless checkpoint for their life failures. We observe middle-aged people whose relationships, marriages, and seemingly stable positions are starting to crack. Someone is getting a divorce, someone shows up with a much younger partner, disrupting the group dynamic, and someone else simply cannot cope with the passage of time. It is a story about the painful realization that being an adult does not mean you have everything figured out.
Without spoiling the exact plot, I want to draw your attention to a few specific "quotes" — moments from the show that hit me the hardest.
1. The voice you need to evict from your head
The first moment is a conversation about self-doubt, something we need to hear in today’s world more than ever:
"I just hate seeing you doubt yourself. Yeah. It's okay to fu** up. It is literally how you get better at it. I just hate seeing you doubt yourself. Because once you invite that voice into your head, the one that tells you that you can't do it... it is really hard to evict that fu***"
How often do we see this in other women? When the other person, the one closest to us, suddenly starts doubting herself... If you watch this show, the impact of these words is even stronger because they are spoken by a character who has deeply doubted herself.
I think this is incredibly important, especially nowadays when everyone on Instagram and everywhere else is perfect, making it harder and harder to just be yourself and make mistakes. Please, remember this quote. It's okay to fuck up.
2. Living in harmony with yourself (even at the cost of loss)
The second quote is a conversation between a mother and her son that deeply moved me. The son wants to respect his partner's wishes and take no action, but the mother tells him bluntly:
Do what you think is most important. It's your life and you have to do what you think is right.
I think this is a beautiful moment, especially given the context where the person denying the need for help simply doesn't want to be a burden to anyone. I don't think I can say this any more clearly: it is your life and you must live it in harmony with yourself — even if it comes at the cost of losing someone or something. Trying to please others at your own expense always ends in a personal catastrophe.
3. Do you have to be the only adult on the planet?
And finally, something that feels particularly close to me. A thought dedicated to all those people who always have to be the "adults"—the responsible and strong ones:
"- I feel like I have to use all of my energy to keep us both above water.
Why you don't have to do that?
Because if I also say every dark, horrible thing that I am feeling we will go down. If I'm not a buoy, we are gonna wind up on the ocean floor.
Look, I can be a buoy too, all right? Just give me a chance."
Maybe you don't always have to keep yourself upright? Maybe you don't have to be the only adult on planet Earth, single-handedly making sure everything doesn't collapse? Maintaining appearances at all costs and being an eternal buoy for everyone around you drains you to the core. Maybe someone can take care of us sometimes, too? It's just a loose thought, but one truly worth pondering.
