Among the guests on the third season of HBO’s The White Lotus are a trio of childhood friends who, it is immediately obvious, cannot stand each other. From the moment they step off the boat, these 40somethings are taking passive-aggressive swipes and talking behind each other’s backs. Yet at the end of the week, one reflects sincerely on how time has given their bond meaning. “We started this life together. I mean, we’re going through it apart. But we’re still together,” she says. “And I look at you guys, and it feels meaningful.”
I thought back to that speech while watching a different unhappy clique in Tina Fey‘s new Netflix show The Four Seasons, based on Alan Alda’s 1981 film. That inherent value of shared history might be the only explanation as to why its members continue to gravitate toward each other to the tune of four (!) group
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