The Netflix adaptation of 'The Four Seasons' features a star-studded cast, including Tina Fey and Colman Domingo, but struggles to modernize the original film's themes of aging and friendship. While the showrunners attempt to infuse new ideas into the relationships of the middle-class couples, the storytelling remains outdated. The show features some familiar scenarios, loses significant confrontational elements, and does not provide a robust, relatable narrative, despite a minor diversity update to the original casting. Overall, it reflects a regressive approach rather than an innovative one for today's audience.
While the remake brings back the charm of growing old together, it struggles to present a relatable narrative for today's audience, lacking fresh storytelling elements.
The adaptation attempts to modernize the original by incorporating diversity, but it ultimately fails to innovate beyond surface-level representation, resulting in a regression of the original narrative.
Collection
[
|
...
]