Lamenting lost youth is the destiny of the middle aged. Yet while The Four Seasons understands grown-ups’ wistfulness for wild adventures, crazy nights, and blossoming love, it also understands that recapturing glory days is a futile endeavor—and,

Steve Carell, Colman Domingo and Will Forte join Fey in this feel-good comedy about marriage, divorce, friendship and Gen X.

A 2014 review of Alan Alda’s 1981 directorial debut, The Four Seasons, on the website The Dissolve described it as offering an “unspeakably tedious … oppressive vision of middle age”. Kudos, then, to Netflix’s eponymous reboot of Alda’s sour portrait of midlife malaise,