The Four Seasons stars Will Forte and Tina Fey, who is also an executive producer and co-creator/writer, spoke with ComingSoon’s Tyler Treese about the second season of the hit Netflix show. The duo discussed balancing comedy and drama, the key to communication, and the show’s unrealistic amount of farts (don’t worry, it’ll be addressed in Season 3). The Netflix show returns with eight more episodes on May 28, 2026.
“Coming off a hard year, our group of friends carries on their tradition of vacationing together — now with a baby in tow. The Four Seasons picks back up with the core group — Kate (Tina Fey), Jack (Will Forte), Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), Danny (Colman Domingo), Claude (Marco Calvani), and Ginny (Erika Henningsen) — as they journey from the familiar comforts of the Jersey shore and upstate New York to the stunning landscapes of Italy. With warmth and wit, personal blind spots surface for the group as they each grieve their late friend and embark on new adventures. Co-created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, The Four Seasons remains a heartfelt and hilarious tribute to long-term relationships, while continuing to explore the highs, lows, and humor of enduring friendships and love,” says the official description.
Tyler Treese: Tina, communication is always something a couple needs to actively be working on, and that becomes an issue with Jack and Kate throughout this season. It’s in the first season of the show, too, but I feel like we got to see such different sides of both characters. How was it making sure that didn’t come across as a repetitive regression for the characters and was instead explored in a fresh way?
Tina Fey: Yeah. Well, I’m glad to hear that you felt that it was new and fresh. Because we certainly spent a lot of time in the writer’s room working on these two and trying to find like, “Yeah, what is the world’s tiniest story, but what can happen?” I do think a lot of being married a long time is just like choosing to reboot. Choosing to be like, pause, start over. I feel like these two do it a lot, and there’s a moment in Season 2 where I say to you like, “We’ve been married like a billion years. How are we still so bad at this?” that I fear is gonna be a relatable sentiment to a lot of married people. I hope and fear.
Will, there’s a wonderful bromance in the summer that you have with a new character, Mark Brett. I love a guy whose full name you always have to say. What do you like most about Jack’s summer fling and showing that adult men can make new friends?
Will Forte: Steve Pasquale, I got to act with him. He came in, and it was so easy to act like friends with him ’cause he is such a pleasant guy and obviously a great actor. So the writers had just written this, I’m sorry, I’m gonna say it, delicious. This delicious little thing with him, which was just so fun to play, which was like we were little high school boys running around with this youthful, beach buddy, enthusiasm. Then I love where his storyline went from there, but God, it was just really fun to get to do that stuff, and with him. He just seamlessly became part of the group.
He’s like a golden retriever, just positive vibes. I love Mark Brett. What a great character.
Tina, one thing that really impressed me with both seasons is the emotional beats. I’m laughing super hard one moment, then I’m trying not to let my girlfriend see that I’m crying next. So, how is it making sure that the comedy adds to the emotion rather than takes away from it? Because I feel like that’s really tricky, and you guys nailed it.
Tina Fey: Thank you so much. Yeah, it takes a lot of restraint in the writer’s room to try to build these emotional moments and not like pull the rug out from under them with a joke too much. And we just have like Tracey Wigfield and Lang Fisher and the rest of our writers just… everyone cares very deeply. We have like a lot of empaths in our writers’ room too, who get just as excited about an emotional moment as they would a big joke. When you have people like Colman [Domingo], Kerry [Kenney-Silver], and Will, who are really, really good actors…
Will Forte: Now Marco’s gonna be like, “She didn’t say me.”
Fey: And Marco is also very handsome. No, Marco’s really good too.
Forte: And Erica.
Fey: And Erica. Oh my God. Everybody but me. It’s really good. But it’s fun to see proper actors get to do real stuff, and that is how life is, too. Like life is never all one or the other. Like it’s, you know, it’s like that’s when I see a drama that has no humor in it. I’m like, “Well, that’s not real life either.”
Forte: Yeah. In your most stressful moments, you’re usually trying to cut the tension with a joke or a fart.
Fey: Maybe a fart if you can’t think of a joke.
Forte: Yeah. That’s the thing about this show that I kind of like the least. I feel like there’s an unrealistic amount of farts.
Fey: Like a lack of farts?
Forte: Yeah.
Fey: We’ll work on it.
Season 3, more farts.
Fey: We’ll add it. Season 3 — Oops! All Farts.
Thanks to Tina Fey and Will Forte for taking the time to talk about The Four Seasons Season 2.
