Steve Carell Has ‘Midlife Disaster’ (Unique)

Nobody’s marriage is ideal, however Steve Carell’s is especially dangerous in The 4 Seasons — so he does what any man would do: he begins courting his dental hygienist.

In PEOPLE’s unique take a look at the upcoming Netflix collection, which is a brand new tackle the beloved 1981 movie of the identical title, Carell performs Nick, whose marriage to Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver) has come to an finish, a revelation that sends shockwaves via his good friend group.

The collection follows three pairs of {couples} — Nick and Anne, Kate (Tina Fey) and Jack (Will Forte) and Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani) — because the breakdown of Nick and Anne’s marriage leaves the group of greater than 30 years “fully upended” and trickles into every of the 4 holidays they take that 12 months.

Within the trailer, Nick asks Jack (Forte) and Danny, “Are you guys completely satisfied?” to which Danny (Domingo) exasperatedly asks, “What sort of query is that?”

The explanation his and Anne’s marriage fell aside appears fairly clear, as he describes their dynamic to his associates: “We sit in the identical room monitoring totally different screens. We’re like coworkers at a nuclear facility.”

It is a feeling that Kate (Fey) pertains to considerably, although. “I might like to go someplace alone and simply learn my cellphone, all the best way to the tip,” she tells Danny.

In Danny’s phrases, although, Kate’s marriage to Jack may be summed up fairly simply. “You recognize these two — complaining is their model of getting intercourse,” he tells his husband Claude (Calvani).

Danny and Claude’s relationship is not excellent both, although. As he tells Kate, “Claude lives in his personal opera. This explicit one is many hours lengthy.”

Nick’s daughter (Julia Lester) calls it how she sees it. “Dad, this looks like a primary midlife disaster,” she tells him.

Later, his estranged spouse Anne defends him from their daughter’s critiques — although she tosses in one in every of her personal whereas she’s at it. “Present your father some respect,” Anne says. “Even when he’s sporting a tank high which you could see his nipples via.”

Nonetheless, he tells his daughter within the trailer, seemingly of him and his ex-wife, “We’re simply folks. Flawed folks.”

Following his separation from Anne, Nick is seeing his dental hygienist Ginny (Erica Henningsen), who joins the buddies on one in every of their journeys — and who he reveals he is planning a visit to Burning Man with.

Within the trailer, Kate says she understands what her good friend is doing, contemplating Ginny is “younger and scorching,” to which Jack aptly replies, “Do not see a ton of upside for me in answering that.”

The collection, which Fey created and wrote alongside her 30 Rock associates Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, is “a love letter to long-term relationships, each platonic and romantic,” in Fey’s phrases.

“As a result of your life is ideally extra than simply the individual you’re married to. Typically if you end up battling one thing with simply your partner, you want a gaggle of associates to convey humor to it,” she informed Netflix’s Tudum. “These friendships actually assist marriages, I believe. Having an individual who simply fulfills part of you that your partner can’t fairly [fulfill] is essential.”

“What we hoped for the present was to drive dwelling this little perspective shift that in case you simply checked out your husband or your greatest good friend in a sure gentle, it is like, ‘Oh, that is essentially the most treasured factor in my life,'” Wigfield mentioned. “And one thing that you need to be greedy onto with each fingers.”

Together with Lester, Ashlyn Maddox, Jacob Buckenmyer, Taylor Ortega, Simone Recasner, Toby Edward Huss, Tommy Do, Chloe Troast, Jack Gore and Cole Tristan Murphy additionally visitor star within the collection, which is a remake of the 1981 movie that starred Alan Alda, Carol Burnett and Rita Moreno.

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The 4 Seasons premieres Thursday, Could 1 on Netflix.