Four holiday periods structure the second season into two comedy-heavy episodes each, with major events occurring off-screen and consequences shown afterward. Vivaldi music and bracing jokes accompany themes of loneliness, anger, and midlife unraveling. After Nick’s death, three couples shift: Kate and Jack struggle to keep their marriage intact, Danny and Claude bicker while staying stylish, and Anne navigates life with Ginny, the younger woman Nick left her for. Anne resists friendship with Ginny, while Kate pushes back with humor. As summer arrives, Anne and Ginny move in together, and Anne becomes intensely involved in caring for the pregnancy, leading to increasingly outrageous moments.
"Again there are four fancy holidays split across the seasons, each one given two gag-packed episodes a rigid but neat structural device that allows the big moments to happen off-screen. Meanwhile we get the aftermath soundtracked by an avalanche of Vivaldi and bracing jokes about sad lonely donkeys, secret vapes mistaken for thumb drives, and the tragicomedy of being an angry, unravelling fiftysomething man in a T-shirt printed with Keep Calm and Fuhgeddaboutit."
"The three couples have been reconfigured after the death of Nick (Steve Carell) at the end of season one. So there's Kate (played by Fey) and Jack (the uptight/softie duo relentlessly workshopping their marriage into the ground), Danny and Claude (gay, unbearably chic, forever bickering) and Nick's ex-wife Anne and the much younger woman for whom he left her, Ginny now heavily pregnant with his baby."
"Ladies aren't supposed to be friends with the woman their dead husband left them for, wails Anne. You're right, says Kate. There is no Beyonce song about that. Anyway, come summer the two women and a baby have moved in together, and Anne's so besotted with her new role she is testing Ginny's breast pump on her own nipple."
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