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  The series received mostly favorable reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 77% approval rating based on 62 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Welcoming as a lakeside vista and occasionally just as placid, The Four Seasons isn't as breezily funny as creator Tina Fey 's best work but often just as witty and wise." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave a score of 61 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
  
  Saloni Gajjar of The A.V. Club gave the series a B+ and said, "Despite the aforementioned lack of jokes, the show is never too intense, with the eight half-hour installments flowing by breezily. The characters are entertaining and worth spending time with, and the miniseries boasts well-written banter, immersive settings, and, best of all, Antonio Vivaldi 's eponymous violin concertos acting as a comforting companion throughout this journey." Reviewing the series for The Guardian, Lucy Mangan gave a rating of 4/5 and wrote, " The Four Seasons is Fey and her writing and acting ensembles on fine form, everything informed by her rigorous intelligence, wit and experience. Rest your aching bones and enjoy." Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone commented, "There are some amusing moments, and a few genuinely poignant ones, but on the whole it feels thin—less a TV show than an excuse for a bunch of talented people, several of them old friends IRL, to hang out together in a variety of pretty locales."
  
  The series received mostly favorable reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 77% approval rating based on 62 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Welcoming as a lakeside vista and occasionally just as placid, The Four Seasons isn't as breezily funny as creator Tina Fey 's best work but often just as witty and wise." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave a score of 61 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
  
  Saloni Gajjar of The A.V. Club gave the series a B+ and said, "Despite the aforementioned lack of jokes, the show is never too intense, with the eight half-hour installments flowing by breezily. The characters are entertaining and worth spending time with, and the miniseries boasts well-written banter, immersive settings, and, best of all, Antonio Vivaldi 's eponymous violin concertos acting as a comforting companion throughout this journey." Reviewing the series for The Guardian, Lucy Mangan gave a rating of 4/5 and wrote, " The Four Seasons is Fey and her writing and acting ensembles on fine form, everything informed by her rigorous intelligence, wit and experience. Rest your aching bones and enjoy." Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone commented, "There are some amusing moments, and a few genuinely poignant ones, but on the whole it feels thin—less a TV show than an excuse for a bunch of talented people, several of them old friends IRL, to hang out together in a variety of pretty locales."