SPOILERS are forward for The 4 Seasons, now streaming with a Netflix subscription.
It’s solely been just a few weeks since Tina Fey’s The 4 Seasons TV present landed on Netflix, however I’m one of many tens of millions of viewers who wolfed it up when it landed on the 2025 TV schedule. Now, because of all that viewership, it’s already been greenlit for a second season. Personally, I’m excited and have already got some concepts about how I need to see the dramedy proceed. Nevertheless, it’s a massive bummer that Steve Carell in all probability received’t get to be a part of it, contemplating his character died earlier than the tip of the season. I used to be inquisitive about how the actor thinks about it, and his response didn’t disappoint.
When Tina Fey spoke to The Hollywood Reporter in regards to the stunning plot level on the finish of The 4 Seasons, she revealed that Steve Carell wasn’t too completely satisfied about what occurs to his character, Nick, both. Right here’s how she recalled it:
He was like, ‘Why does this preserve occurring to me?’… I didn’t know [a similar thing happened to his character in The Morning Show] after we pitched it, in order that’s on me. However I dug my heels in.
Steve Carell is such a well-liked and lovable man that, for some motive, I believed he’d brush off the reveal because it frees up his schedule to work on different tasks. Nevertheless, because it seems, he was as upset as I used to be. And, what makes it worse, is that one of many different nice exhibits he was on, Apple TV+’s The Morning Present, additionally had his character, Mitch Kessler, die unexpectedly on the finish of Season 2.
As Tina Fey shared, she had no concept that this wasn’t Steve Carell’s first rodeo on the subject of discovering out a TV character of his could be dying, and it solely made issues worse when she let him find out about what occurs to Nick. Whereas I’m nonetheless in shock over how nevermind one author, however two, would kill off the actor of their present, she did share why they discovered it crucial for the venture with these phrases:
We felt like on the time that every little thing was type of grounded and human scale when it comes to story, and we had been like we do need one thing to occur, and that could be a factor that occurs to people. We wished this present to essentially mirror the time within the lives of those individuals. And whenever you’re in your 50s, it’s not like a loopy factor to think about dropping a pal. We wished this present to have massive human stakes, and so somebody dying and the group having to come back collectively to take care of that felt proper.
I do know when the second occurred late within the season, I used to be actually stunned as a result of Steve Carell’s character was so central to The 4 Seasons, and had so much occurring plot-wise when he all of a sudden dies.
He was in the midst of a ski journey along with his youthful girlfriend Ginny, and having a rocky time there as a result of he felt misplaced along with her associates. He had simply referred to as his group of longtime associates and had a candy go to with them, earlier than enjoying the iPad recreation that he as soon as scoffed at his ex-wife for enjoying. Whereas it appeared just like the present may get into these threads extra, it as a substitute determined to remind us that demise can come out of nowhere, it doesn’t matter what’s occurring in a single’s life.
Nevertheless, whereas he is gone, Nick will probably be a personality of word in Season 2, given the primary season ended with Ginny revealing she’s pregnant along with his baby. We do surprise if it can discover Ginny extra prominently subsequent season. It’s simply unhappy we received’t get to see extra of Steve Carell’s Nick.