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The Four Seasons Recap Season 2 Finale — How Is Steve Carell’s Nick Back?
Season 2 of Netflix’s star-studded comedy drama The Four Seasons dropped on the streaming platform on May 28, and it was chock full of shocking plot twists, major updates and even some character returns that nobody saw coming.
Season 1 of The Four Seasons introduced a group of six close friends, comprising three couples: Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), Kate (Tina Fey) and Jack (Will Forte) and Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani). At first, the couples all seem happily married, but by the end of the first episode, Nick had revealed his intentions to divorce Anne—on their wedding anniversary, no less.
By Season 1, Episode 2, Nick had begun dating a much younger woman, Ginny (Erika Henningsen), which left Anne distraught and the formerly close-knit group of friends feeling disjointed and uncomfortable. Meanwhile, Kate and Jack and Danny and Claude are facing their own respective marital issues, as well as some quarrels between friends. This rocky season concludes with two shocking revelations.
First, in a completely disarming twist, Kate receives a call from Ginny that Nick has died suddenly in a car accident, just after viewers saw him happily purchasing groceries at a store. The Season 1 finale ends with Nick’s funeral and yet another twist: Ginny is pregnant with Nick’s child. Season 2 picks up several months later, with a very pregnant Ginny and the friend group still navigating their grief and ongoing relationship issues.
Ginny’s Baby and Her Role Within the Friend Group
In Season 1, Ginny is (understandably) very much on the outs amongst the friends. Anne, of course, despises her because she is the woman for whom Nick left her—and, as her daughter points out, she is really just Anne in a younger body. When Season 2 kicks off, this hasn’t really improved. Anne tolerates Ginny’s presence to spread Nick’s ashes, but she wants her gone after that.
However, following that event, Anne and Ginny have a heart to heart, and their newfound understanding of one another actually leads to Ginny moving in with Anne after giving birth to her son, Eugene. This not only means that Nick’s friends take on roles as aunts/uncles to the baby but also that Anne is effectively raising her ex husband’s baby with his (sort of) widow.
By the end of Season 2, however, Ginny has moved into her own home, and she doesn’t take part in the last trip of the season, suggesting that, while she will no doubt continue to have a role in the friends’ lives to some extent, she may not be as close to them as she was throughout the earlier episodes of Season 2.
Season 2’s Multiple Moves to Italy
About midway through the season, Danny and Claude announce that they are moving to Italy, which absolutely devastates Kate, who is still mourning the loss of Nick and is now facing a massive separation from her best friend, Danny. The final arc of the season sees all the core friends traveling to Italy to visit Danny and Claude. However, Danny tells Kate in confidence that he isn’t actually happy there.
After Kate and Danny are robbed in Italy, it becomes clear that Danny is ready to leave the country and return home to the States. What seals the deal, though, is the news that Danny’s mother is in the hospital. Danny and Claude rush to her bedside, which leads to a conversation in which Danny tells Claude that they should bring his mother with them to Italy. However, in a moment that confirms how deeply Claude and Danny really love each other, Claude instead tells Danny they should move back to the United States to care for her.
That isn’t the end of Season 2’s moves to Italy, though. In yet another twist that nobody saw coming, Anne announces in the very last moments of the season that she is actually staying in Italy. Hilariously, just a few scenes before this declaration, Anne had lied and said she met someone named Gianpiero and was now seeing him. Although that was indeed a lie, just before the credits role, she meets an actual Gianpiero, and it’s clear that sparks are flying.
How Nick Returns In Season 2
Viewers weren’t expecting to see Steve Carell’s Nick in Season 2 because of his abrupt Season 1 death. In fact, Nick dies off screen, and then he doesn’t appear for the rest of the season, suggesting his sudden departure was both intentionally jarring and permanent. However, Carell does appear in Season 2 (and, no, it’s not as a ghost).
At the end of Season 2, Episode 5, “Big Thanksgiving,” The Four Seasons plays a trick on audiences by having Nick come running out of a room calling for Anne and making it seem as though this is happening in the present day. For a second, it almost seems as though Nick is actually back, perhaps having faked his death. Instead, this kicks off the follow-up episode, “Little Thanksgiving,” which is a flashback to a Thanksgiving several years earlier.
This episode, in addition to being exciting because it brings Carell back, is an important one, as it shows that Nick was never really faithful, even before Ginny.
Is The Four Seasons Season 3 Happening?
As of right now, Netflix has not announced The Four Seasons Season 3. However, that certainly doesn’t mean a third season isn’t coming. In fact, Season 2 absolutely left the door open for a follow-up season. For one, with Anne’s sudden move to Italy, there is plenty to explore in her story. This would be a particularly delightful plot line for a potential Season 3, as it means a truly new chapter for Anne—one in which she is finally focusing on herself.
Danny and Claude’s return to the United States is also notable and could be explored in the next season. Yes, it was sweet for Claude to offer to move back to the States for Danny’s mom, but that doesn’t mean that is going to be a smooth transition that won’t cause tensions between them. In both seasons, viewers have already seen how complicated and, at times, difficult their relationship is, so it would make sense for this to become an issue in the future.
While Ginny is outside of the main friend group, she had some great character development in Season 2, so it would also be interesting to have at least a small check-in on her and Eugene in a third season and see how the new single mom is handling raising the baby more or less on her own.
Finally, it feels most likely for a possible Season 3 to focus on Kate and Jack. Throughout both seasons, the couple has obviously played an important role. Yet, they’ve not really been front and center at any point. Instead, their marital issues have always been a smaller part of the overall show. Given how much back and forth they’ve had with these issues, Season 3 primarily highlighting their marriage and what their future looks like would make a lot of sense.
For the time being, though, it remains unclear whether The Four Seasons will be back for a third season.
The Way Home wrapped up its fourth and final season this summer, on June 21, 2026, on the Hallmark Channel.
Now, three months later, fans who first heard of the show when it was added to Netflix will be able to stream the final season.
When Is The Way Home Season 4 Coming to Netflix?
The Way Home Season 4 is officially available on Netflix starting today, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026.
Fans can stream all 10 episodes in the final installment to find out how it all ends for the three generations of Landry women!
If you want to read our review, you can find it right here—but be warned, it contains plenty of spoilers!
Will There Be a The Way Home Season 5?
Sadly, there is no news about a fifth season of The Way Home.
Many hoped that after Hallmark prematurely cancelled the series, which was intended to run five seasons, Netflix would swoop in and save it, especially after it got such a huge boost following its addition to the streamer.
Unfortunately, there hasn’t been any confirmation that Netflix is interested in another season—though the cast has expressed interest if the opportunity presented itself.
Maybe following the success of season 4 on Netflix, the streamer will have a change of heart?
You can see what the creators had in mind for a fifth season right here.
Main Cast of The Way Home
- Andie MacDowell as Delilah “Del” Landry
- Chyler Leigh as Katherine “Kat” Landry
- Sadie Laflamme-Snow as Alice Dhawan
- Evan Williams as Elliot Augustine
- Alex Hook as teenage Kat Landry
- David Webster as teenage Elliot Augustine
- Jefferson Brown as Colton Landry
- Spencer MacPherson as Jacob Landry
- Al Mukadam as Brady Dhawan
What Is The Way Home About?
Per the official description, The Way Home follows “three generations of Landry women who discover a magical pond that lets them travel through time to heal past family tragedies.”
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2 Fan-Favorite Dramas Were Unexpectedly Cancelled This Week at Both Netflix and Prime Video—And It’s Concerning
It’s been a brutal week for fans of two TV shows across Netflix and Prime Video.
Netflix cancelled Sweet Magnolias, ending the show’s five-season run, while Prime Video hit its newest action-drama Ride or Die with an abrupt and unexpected end.
Sweet Magnolias series creator and showrunner Sheryl J. Anderson paid tribute to the show on Instagram, writing: “Living in Serenity for five seasons has been a privilege and a blessing. The people I’ve met and worked with — our incredible writers, cast, crew, executives, and producers — have touched my heart and changed my life. And our fans have been amazing in their passion for our characters. Thank you all. Though our journey has sadly come to an end, I hope Serenity will always have a place in your heart. Keep pouring it out!”
The series, a feel-good romantic drama set in a small Southern town called Serenity, based on the book series by Sherryl Woods, followed three best friends—Maddie (JoAnna Garcia Swisher), Dana Sue (Brooke Elliot) and Helen (Heather Headley), as they navigated romance, family dynamics, careers, personal goals and dreams, and more with grace. It was a comfy, small-town series that felt like home more and more with each passing season, which is what makes the cancellation sting so much.
There’s not enough pouring it out to make it make sense, though; the dip in traffic each season is likely the reason behind Netflix’s decision, as viewership dropped 30% in the last season, per Deadline. It marked a much more severe drop-off than the one seen in Seasons 3 and 4, with only a 13% dip, as many fans complained there wasn’t enough advertising to make fans aware there even was a new season available in the first place.
Meanwhile, Prime Video pulled the plug on the Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham thriller after just one season, shocking fans, especially as the series had plenty of potential.
Both shows, though quite different in nature and premise, featured strong female leads and underscored the power of friendship.
Ride or Die’s lack of season 2 renewal was a big shock, particularly because it was so well received, as Deadline reports it immediately shot to No. 1 in the US and logged 927 views in just 2 days of its release.
Spencer, who played Debbie Claybourne, the best friend to Waddingham’s Judith Barton, who was a secret international assasin, took to Instagram, writing, in part, “Projects like this shouldn’t be the exception, they should be the rule! For all the women out there who felt seen, laughed out loud, lived out loud with Debbie and Judith, thank you. This was a fun one! Thank you Tessa Coates! Massive thank you to you, Jen Salke! You’ve always had exquisite taste!”
Parent Trap and Abbott Elementary actress Lisa Ann Walter commented what we’re all thinking, “They’re insane. Biggest hit prime has had in a minute,” while Ruby Rose added, “This is in the top 10 CRAZIEST cancellations of all time. This PROVES WE ARE NOT ON A REAL TIMELINE!”
And this, of course, follows the cancellation of Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly’s western rom-com Ransom Canyon after its second season, proving that absolutely nothing and no one is safe.
With so many shows across a plethora of streaming platforms—maybe we’ve just spread viewership too thin? I can’t be the only one who is fed up with paying $10+ for every single service, forced to pick and choose who I support and what I watch. But in the case of Ride or Die, even promising numbers didn’t sway the powers that be. With everything growing more expensive with each passing day in this economy, maybe this is a sign of the times? Will more shows that fans love and pour their heart and soul into suffer the same fate? Should we stop getting invested altogether?
Fan-favorite small-town shows like Virgin River, The Way Home and One Tree Hill are joining forces for a first-ever experience.
As Virgin River fans patiently await season 8, there’s something else they can look forward to.
Ben Hollingsworth, who plays Dan Brady on the hit Netflix drama, took to Instagram for a first-ever announcement that delighted fans.
“Virgin River fans, I know you’re excited. You want to know: is Brady coming back for season 8? You want to know when season 8’s coming out? You want to know if there’s going to be a season 9. Well…” he begins, before a censored sticker covers his mouth and a bleep-out noise cuts off any sliver of news he was going to share.
“I’m just joking, I can’t tell you any of that,” he admits, before revealing something equally as exciting for the fandom.
“What I can tell you is that for the first time ever, me and a bunch of my Virgin River cast mates are going to be doing a convention.”
And it’s not just any convention, as he clarifies that it isn’t like “one of those mall ones,” adding that this one is “tailored just for shows like ours.”
By that, he meets small town shows, which have carved out a place for themselves in the TV landscape.
“It’s called Meet Cute con and the theme is small town television,” he added, noting, “that’s basically Virgin River.”
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The excitement continues as Hollingsworth reveals it’s taking place in Nashville at the Loveless Barn, with Virgin Hotels Nashville fittingly serving as a sponsor.
It will kick off with a rooftop party and run from Nov. 6th through 8th.
People reports it will include “celebrity panels, live music, interactive experiences, and Southern food for an intimate fan experience.”
But it’s not just Virgin River!
Other small town hows included in Meet Cute Con include One Tree Hill and The Way Home.
The confirmed guest list for Small-Town Swoon is as follows: One Tree Hill alum Jana Kramer, The Way Home‘s Evan Williams, and Virgin River stars Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Hollingsworth and Zibby Allen.
Additional celebrities from small town shows will be announced in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, if you want to be part of the first-ever meet up, you can grab tickets here.
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