Tina Fey is promoting season two of The Four Seasons on Netflix. It co-stars Colman Domingo and Will Forte and is about a group of married friends who go on vacation together. It’s loosely based on the 1981 movie with Alan Alda, Carol Burnett and Rita Moreno. Fey co-stars and she co-wrote and developed the series with her 30 Rock co-collaborators Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield. In a new interview with Today, Tina said they all drew inspiration from their lives while trying to maintain deniability to their husbands. She also made some very good points about aging and how it changes our perspectives and bodies.

The show, now in its second season, pays tribute to the ’80s film with plenty of Easter eggs, including a two-episode cameo from Alda in Season 1 and the resurrection of one of Burnett’s most memorable lines.

“I hate to break it to you, but you’re married to a middle-aged woman with dry skin,” Fey’s character, Kate, exasperatedly utters to hubby Jack (Forte).

Aging, like relationships, is front and center in “The Four Seasons,” with each of the main characters facing their own reckoning with mortality.

Fey says many of the references and moments woven into the plot of are, in fact, based on the real-life experiences of the series’ writers.

“We’re all pretty much the same age,” Fey says of the creative team.

“Almost all of us have known each other a super long time, and so all the writers are really good about sharing their own things,” she adds. “Then sometimes our spouses are like, ‘Is that me?’ And then we’ll usually just be like, ‘No, no.’ We’ll just lie and say, ‘That’s so and so.’”

White lies aside, Fey says that the writers are “generous” about sharing their personal anecdotes. Much like the characters in “The Four Seasons,” she and her cohorts have essentially been schooled by life.

“The peaks and valleys have really flattened out,” Fey says. “I’m just like, ‘OK. That happened? OK. We won a prize? OK. There was a fire? OK.’ Like you just … flat,” she says.

She agrees that, like most things, it’s hard to truly understand what it means to age until it happens to you.

“I feel like it’s a reverse puberty in a way. It’s like your body starts to change and be disgusting in new ways,” she says with a laugh. “When you’re 12 or 13, you’re like, ‘Why am I so oily?’ And now you’re like, ‘Why am I so papery?’”

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It’s so true that everything feels flat now! I don’t know if I’m depressed from lack of hormones or if it’s just the way that time smooths out the peaks and valleys, like taking a zoomed out look at a line graph. Also the physiological changes she mentions are depressingly relatable. My skin doesn’t feel like my own anymore because it’s so dry. I’ve been drinking more water and trying to stay hydrated and that helps somewhat. Of course she’s downplaying all of this by only mentioning one of the many baffling things our bodies are doing. Why are my inner ears itching?

Right now The Four Seasons is the number three TV series on Netflix. I’m currently watching the series sitting at number four, The Buroughs, but I’ll give this a chance when I’m done. Tina is optimistic in this interview about whether the show will get a third season, saying it’s a “good sign” and “We’re certainly all up for it.”

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