“Four Seasons” Cast Reveals Steve Carell's Hilarious Text to Group Chat After Season 2 Renewal (Exclusive)
“Four Seasons” Cast Reveals Steve Carell's Hilarious Text to Group Chat After Season 2 Renewal (Exclusive)
Brenton Blanchet, Scott HuverSat, June 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC
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Steve Carell, Will Forte, Tina Fey, Marco Calvani, and Kerri Kenney-Silver on April 24, 2025Credit: Charley Gallay/Getty -
Steve Carell had a hilarious group-chat reaction to The Four Seasons getting renewed after his character's fate in season 1
Kerri Kenney-Silver tells PEOPLE that Carell dropped a hilarious two-word message to costars after the news came out
The Four Seasons is now streaming on Netflix
Steve Carell had a hilarious message for his Four Seasons castmates when the show got picked up for a second season.
During the season 2 premiere of the Netflix comedy at Hollywood's Egyptian Theater, Kerri Kenney-Silver — who reprises her role as Anne — detailed her costar's reaction to the show getting renewed.
Kenney-Silver, 56, says the cast has two group chats these days. One was made when filming on location in Puerto Rico for season 1, while the other was only made after the season 2 pickup — not including Carell, whose character Nick dies at the end of the first season.
"When we got our pickup for season 2, it started just emojis of excitement, confetti, hooray, lots of cartwheels. And then Steve just wrote in big bold letters, 'I'M DEAD.' "
Marco Calvani as Claude, Kerri Kenney-Silver as Anne, Colman Domingo as Danny, Will Forte as Jack, Tina Fey as Kate, and Erika Henningsen as Ginny behind the scenes of 'The Four Seasons' season 2Credit: Emily V. Aragones/Netflix
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As a result, Tina Fey "started a new one that says 'Cake by the Ocean 2,'" Kenney-Silver says. "She said, 'I guess we should have a new one without Steve so he doesn't feel so bad that he's missing the fun."
Will Forte adds that they simply "didn't want to bug him" with their second-season dinner plans and "hundreds of texts." But the cast will still "go back" to their main chat with Carell still there when needed.
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Forte, Fey and Kenney-Silver star in season 2 alongside Colman Domingo, Erika Henningsen and Marco Calvani. While Carell's Nick was indeed dead for most of season 2, his character returns for a flashback in the latest batch of episodes.
Episode 6, "Little Thanksgiving," takes viewers through a flashback of a COVID-era Thanksgiving, with Carell, 63, returning to reprise his role. "It felt for me like it was ice-cream-truck day, you know? I couldn't wait for him to come back because then we feel complete when we're all together," Kenney-Silver says.
"I mean, we're still all together offscreen in the sense that we're still this group, we still exist in a text-thread world," she adds. "We're still constantly talking to each other and we're going to see each other later tonight and all that great stuff. So Steve Carell is still alive and well. But not having him there in that home would have been really hard, I think."
Forte, 55, calls Carell's return to set "pure joy," but the emotional storyline didn't hit him until he watched the episode back. "It wasn't until I saw the episode that I was really kind of experienced that emotion, because he still feels present in our lives because, yeah, he's still around," Forte says. "But, God, the way they throw to that episode, to that flashback episode, is so well done and so like, 'Wait, what the heck is going on here?'"
He adds, "Then the very end of the next episode, after you've seen the flashback and you're back there in the house alone, oh, that was crushing."
The Four Seasons is now streaming on Netflix.
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