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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Jessop

Why is The Four Seasons so good? It’s the opposite of The White Lotus

The viewing figures are in: Tina Fey’s The Four Seasons has been a massive hit. Despite a slow start on Netflix, it’s suddenly rocketed up to the top of the streamers’ in-house rankings, garnered rave reviews and caused a significant amount of internet controversy with its twist ending (no spoilers here).

Why? Let’s unpack. Like that other mega-hit of recent weeks, The White Lotus, this is a show about affluent couples. It’s a show that digs into the micro-relations between people, and how wildly they can go wrong. Oh, and it has a shock death at the end.

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