The Four Seasons season two review – Tina Fey’s brilliant follow-up is up there with 30 Rock

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According to The Guardian’s source item, The Four Seasons season two review – Tina Fey’s brilliant follow-up is up there with 30 Rock, Poignant, hilarious, loaded with a super-sharp script … the second outing for this midlife comedy is even more fantastic than the first Middle age is a brutal time of life. As those of us mired in it know, it’s perfectly suited to being mined for laughs (the unhinged type of laughs that are bound up with tears, crisis, and, inevitably, death.) But still too few comedy series take this pressured segment of time and squeeze it for all its acidic worth. Enter middle-aged joke machine Tina Fey, who with The Four Seasons – her zippy 2020s update of the 1980s film of the same name, co-created and written with Tracey Wigfield and Lang Fisher – has triumphed once again. The second season of her midlife comedy drama is even more perspicacious, poignant and hilarious than the first. Again there are four fancy holidays split across the seasons, each one given two gag-packed episodes – a rigid but n

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