Interview With "The Four Seasons" Showrunners & Writers Lang Fisher & Tracey Wigfield

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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"The Four Seasons" is a new American comedy miniseries written by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield for Netflix. It is an adaptation of the 1981 film of the same name, starring Fey, Steve Carell, Colman Domingo, and Will Forte. Creators and writers Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield were kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on the show, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the series, which is now available to stream in full on Netflix. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the showrunners for the four seasons, Lang Fisher and Tracy Wigfield.
0:10.2	Text, Danny and Claude.
0:12.7	ETA 431.
0:15.0	Please be ready.
0:16.8	Danny says you are not the fucking boss of me.
0:19.0	I will emerge when the magic hour light is perfect.
0:22.0	Take me at.
0:23.1	Get in the car!
0:26.1	We've been friends for 30 years.
0:27.8	I love all of you, all of you, plus...
0:30.0	Please do not talk about your other hotter friend group.
0:32.4	It hurts my feelings.
0:33.7	I know, but that's so hot.
0:38.3	Are you guys happy? What kind of question is that? Come on.
0:40.3	We sit in the same room, monitoring different screens.
0:44.3	We're like co-workers at a nuclear facility.
0:47.3	I would love to go someplace alone and just read my phone all the way to the end.
0:53.3	You know those two. Complaining is the version of having sex. Oh, that's what? It's going to be caught on that phone. This is Daniel Hout from Next Less Picture. Lay and Tracy, thank you so much for taking the time. I appreciate it. I really love the four seasons. Oh, good. Oh, thank you. And watching it with my wife was even better.
1:12.5	There were so many moments where she paused the show. I was like, okay, whose side are you on?
1:17.6	Oh, my God. I love that. I think that's a good sign of effective writing. I don't know what else
1:22.6	it shows, but at least that. You know, I haven't seen Alan Alda's film that this was based on.
1:28.8	What was it about that film that you felt was right for a remake?
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