Ryan O'Rourke is a Senior News Writer at Collider with a specific interest in all things adult animation, video game adaptations, and the work of Mike Flanagan. He is also an experienced baseball writer with over six years of articles between multiple outlets, most notably FanSided's CubbiesCrib. Whether it's taking in a baseball game, a new season of Futurama or Castlevania: Nocturne, or playing the latest From Software title, he is always finding ways to show his fandom. When it comes to gaming and anything that takes inspiration from it, he is deeply opinionated on what's going on. Outside of entertainment, he's a graduate of Eureka College with a Bachelor's in Communication where he honed his craft as a writer. Between The IV Leader at Illinois Valley Community College and The Pegasus at Eureka, he spent the majority of his college career publishing articles on everything from politics to campus happenings and, of course, entertainment for the student body. Those principles he learned covering the 2020 election, Palestine, and so much more are brought here to Collider, where he has gleefully written on everything from the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes to Nathan Lane baby-birding sewer boys.
Netflix's slate of comedy television runs the gamut from darkly comedic to feel-good fare and just about every degree in between. That remains true in 2026, with highlights ranging from the sophomore outing of the modern sports sitcom Running Point to the heavier, more dramatic Season 2 of Beef, which is packed with The White Lotus vibes. Another acclaimed series that invokes a similar feel to HBO's resort-set black comedy anthology is gearing up for a return for Season 2. In anticipation, the streamer has released a chaotic first trailer that reunites the star-studded cast for another vacation filled with its own trials and tribulations.
The Four Seasons, based on Alan Alda's 1981 movie of the same name and created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, initially followed a group of six old friends on four vacations throughout each of the seasons as they learned that one of the couples among their ranks, Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), was about to break up. Although it upended their dynamic and brought long-simmering tensions to the surface, the moment wasn't enough to break up the longtime pals, though Nick ultimately didn't survive until the end of their trips. Season 2 now sees the gang back together, reaffirmed in their bonds by their friend's tragic passing in a car accident and determined to carry on his legacy by continuing their vacation tradition. Their new journey takes them to new idyllic locales while they grieve Nick, struggling to adjust to life and traditions without one of their pillars.
The trailer opens on a happy note, with the group finding the perfect spot to kick off their first annual Nick weekend. Alas, it soon goes off the rails with the police involved, accidents, surprises, and baby drama with Ginny (Erika Henningsen) and Nick's child. Everyone's struggling to figure out what comes after Nick in their own ways, and it's greatly affecting their lives either directly or indirectly. Yet, between all the relationship drama, getting together again for misadventures from upstate New York to Italy gives them a moment to think about something else and be someone else for a while. Throughout all their struggles, their friendships are what will carry them through it all and inspire that lust for life after such a tragedy.
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Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture QuizWhich Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie?Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country
Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.
🪜Parasite
🌀Everything Everywhere
☢️Oppenheimer
🐦Birdman
🪙No Country for Old Men
QUESTION 1 / 10TONE
01
What kind of film experience do you actually want?The best movies don't just entertain — they leave something behind.
QUESTION 2 / 10THEME
02
Which idea grabs you most in a film?Great films are driven by a central obsession. What's yours?
QUESTION 3 / 10STRUCTURE
03
How do you like your story told?Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.
QUESTION 4 / 10VILLAIN
04
What makes a truly great antagonist?The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?
QUESTION 5 / 10ENDING
05
What do you want from a film's ending?The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?
QUESTION 6 / 10WORLD
06
Which setting pulls you in most?Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what's even possible.
QUESTION 7 / 10CRAFT
07
What cinematic craft impresses you most?Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.
QUESTION 8 / 10PROTAGONIST
08
What kind of main character do you root for?The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.
QUESTION 9 / 10PACE
09
How do you feel about a film that takes its time?Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.
QUESTION 10 / 10AFTERMATH
10
What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema?The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?
The Academy Has DecidedYour Perfect Film Is…
Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.
BEST PICTURE 2020
Parasite
You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho's Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it's ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.
BEST PICTURE 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once
You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels' Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn't want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it's about.
BEST PICTURE 2024
Oppenheimer
You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.
BEST PICTURE 2015
Birdman
You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it's about. Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor's ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn't be possible. Michael Keaton's performance and Emmanuel Lubezki's restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.
BEST PICTURE 2008
No Country for Old Men
You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.
'The Four Seasons' Season 2 Brings Back Its Star-Studded Friend Group
Although Carell's Nick will be absent, the rest of the Season 1 ensemble will be back to try to fill the void left by his absence. Will Forte's Jack is particularly affected by the loss of his buddy, trying to turn every get-together into a celebration of his life. His wife, Kate (Fey), meanwhile, struggles to express her own feelings on the tragedy, while Anne clumsily juggles Nick's estate and Ginny navigates a future as a single mom. Oscar nominee Colman Domingo is also back as Danny, who's now deciding he finally wants a child with his husband, Claude (Marco Calvani), and is ready to see his family on their trip to Italy. After a first run that not only earned solid reviews but racked up nearly 12 million viewers in its first four days on the platform, they'll look to recapture the magic alongside some new faces that will be revealed along the group's trips.
The Four Seasons Season 2 arrives on Netflix on May 28. Check out the trailer in the player above.
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