Netflix’s The Four Seasons is the perfect comfort watch, following a group of lifelong friends over the course of one year in their lives.

Starring Tina Fey (who also co-created the show), Kerri Kenney-Silver, Colman Domingo, Will Forte and Marco Calvani, the series has been a huge hit for Netflix since it premiered last year.

And while some questioned whether the show could survive past the death of Steve Carell’s character, Nick, it came back with a triumphant second series last month that was just as loved by critics and audiences alike.

After season two ended with an intriguing cliffhanger, we can’t wait to meet up with the central group again – that is, if Netflix decides that the show should get a third season.

Here’s everything we know about the future of The Four Seasons…

Currently, Netflix has not announced whether The Four Seasons will return for a third run of episodes.

However, considering the dramedy has not budged from Netflix’s Top 10 since season two’s release just over a week ago, in addition to its rave reviews, things look promising for fans hoping to reunite with the old friends.

In an interview with ScreenRant, series co-creator Tracey Wigfield confirmed that she wants the series to run and run.

“This is only the second season, so I think we’ll know when it feels like it’s coming to a natural stopping point. I would love to do another season, if we could,” she explained, adding that she’s hoping for at least four.

Speaking to Today, Tracey also teased that “they also have ideas and conversations that are interesting for all the characters that we hope we get to do more.”

Meanwhile, despite there being no official confirmation about a third season, co-creators Lang Fisher and Tracy Wigfield told ComingSoon that they have already opened up the show’s writer’s room, and are now coming up with ideas for future instalments.

The end of season two of The Four Seasons saw the group healing their past rifts.

Kate and Jack reached a more comfortable place in their marriage, Ginny was seen thriving in motherhood and Danny and Claude came to an agreement about where they are going to live.

The character with the most exciting arc going forward is Anne, who struggled with widowhood and living alone in the latest episodes.

At the end of the second season, Anne decided to move to Italy, where she finally met a new man who caught her eye, played by David Tennant.

No one is more excited for this plot to potentially be explored deeper than Kerri Kenney-Silver, who plays Anne.

“I lost my mind,” she admitted to Decider. “There were a lot of ideas thrown around there, I mean, just on paper. I was like, ‘Oh my God.’ I laughed out loud when he said his name was Gianpiero, when I read the script — I didn’t see it coming. I’m also not that bright, but I didn’t see it coming.”

Hopefully, David will be back to join in the fun and the many getaways in season three.

“That surprise new friend is in the group now,” Tracey claimed during her ComingSoon interview. “So we were very excited to have him appear, yeah, that’s kind of our big cliffhanger in it.

“It’s another way that, like this group that’s been together forever, is now changing up with a little bit of new blood.”

Based on season two’s conclusion, it looks like the “core group” will return for more bittersweet drama.

It’s not certain if David is returning to reprise his role just yet, but the writers hope the Doctor Who star will be back, with Tina admitting that she always had the Rivals actor in mind to play this charming new love interest.

“The way we pitched it to David was, ‘What would happen if Anne chose someone who was similar to her?’” she explained.

“Anne has been with someone who’s very much her opposite. Nick took care of the money, and she was the creative one. When you have a relationship later in life, you’re not choosing a father for a baby. You’re just having a relationship.”

The Four Seasons is available to stream on Netflix.

Office Romance is the type of rom-com we have all been yearning for.

Written by and starring Brett Goldstein alongside romantic comedy queen Jennifer Lopez herself, the film dropped on Netflix on Friday, and quickly became a hit with viewers looking for something fun to help pass a night in.

Besides its central couple, the movie boasts an all-star cast that includes some of the funniest performers working right now from both sides of the Atlantic.

If you’re one of those who wasted no time in hitting play on Office Romance, here is where you’ll recognise some of the main cast from…

To be honest, if you don’t know who is Jennifer Lopez, you may well have been living under a rock for the last 30 years.

Just in case you need an update, though, J-Lo is a world-famous triple-threat who has primarily made a name for herself as a popstar, selling more than 80 million records worldwide, in addition to her successful career as an actor.

First finding fame in the biopic Selena, she has since become best known for her role in rom-coms like The Wedding Planner, Maid In Manhattan and Monster-in-Law.

Her recent career resurgence included her role in 2019’s Hustlers, which critics cited as one of the best of the year, and even generated Oscar buzz (although she didn’t end up getting nominated).

Jen is as known for her personal life as her career, thanks to her on/off relationship with Ben Affleck and past romances with the likes of Mark Anthony and baseball player Alex Rodríguez.

Writer and actor Brett Goldstein is best known for his performance as Roy Kent in the sports comedy Ted Lasso, but he has had a career in comedy that spans more than a decade.

He first found fame when he appeared in Ricky Gervais comedy Derek as Tom, before going on to appear in Jessica Knapett’s comedy Drifters, Nick Helm’s Uncle and the – thankfully, long forgotten – David Hasselhoff mockumentary Hoff The Record.

Since going global as his mouthy footballer alter-ego in Ted Lasso, Hollywood has come calling. He previously made a cameo in Thor: Love & Thunder as Hercules, as well as writing and co-starring in rom-com All Of You and voicing the twins Ronnie and Reggie in The Sheep Detectives.

Since 2018, Brett has also hosted the podcast Films to Be Buried With, where guests talk about films that have been important in their lives.

Betty Gilpin is one of America’s most underrated character actors.

After years of playing small, but scene-stealing, roles on TV, she found recognition when she was cast as Dr. Carrie Roman in the popular series Nurse Jackie.

Her following continued to grow when she began playing Debbie “Liberty Belle” Eagan in Netflix’s wrestling drama Glow, a role for which she was nominated for an Emmy and a Critics Choice Award.

Since appearing in Glow, she’s had a starring role in Gaslit alongside Julia Roberts, played a nun battling AI in Mrs. Davies and starred opposite Michael Shannon as former US president James Garfield’s wife, Lucretia, in Netflix’s Death By Lightning.

Her most famous – or, perhaps, infamous – role on the big screen came in 2020, when she starred in The Hunt, which a satirical dystopian drama which sent up political divisions in the US.

On stage, Betty was the first actor to play Mary Todd Lincoln after Cole Escola’s departure from their award-winning play Oh, Mary!.

Amy Sedaris is one of the most iconic names in modern comedy thanks to her performances as Jerri Blank in Strangers With Candy, Mimi Kanasis in the Tina Fey sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and numerous characters in her Emmy-nominated show At Home with Amy Sedaris.

You may also know Amy for playing scrap owner Peli Motto in both The Mandalorian and The Book Of Boba Fett.

Office Romance isn’t Amy’s first J-Lo film, either.

She also appeared in Maid In Manhattan as Natasha Richardson’s snobby friend, while her other big-screen credits include Elf, the ill-fated Bewitched remake and the cult horror Jennifer’s Body.

Comedy fans will definitely be familiar with Tony Hale’s work.

Tony is most recognisable for his role as the hapless Buster Bluth in Arrested Development, as well as his performance as the doting assistant Gary in the political comedy Veep.

Besides his stand-out roles, he also played minor characters in the likes of Sex And The City, ER, The Sopranos and Dawson’s Creek in the early years of his career.

On film, Tony is a prolific voice actor, most known for playing Forky in the Toy Story franchise, as well as The Angry Birds Movie, the animated Harley Quinn TV show and Inside Out 2, in which he replaced Bill Hader as the voice of Fear.

Bradley is synonymous with his Emmy-winning role as Josh Lyman, the White House’s Deputy Chief of Staff, in The West Wing.

He is also known for his role as the father in Get Out, who uttered the iconic line: “I would have voted for Obama a third time if I could.”

His other TV work includes playing a drug addicted producer in Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip, Marcy in eight episodes of Transparent and Commander Joseph Lawrence in The Handmaid’s Tale.

He recently reunited with his West Wing co-star Allison Janney in the Netflix drama The Diplomat – as well as appearing in Death By Lightning with fellow Office Romance actor Betty Gilpin.

Edward is most recognisable to TV fans for playing Lieutenant Martin “Marty” Castillo in Miami Vice and William Adama in Battlestar Galactica.

More recently, he had a leading role in Sons Of Anarchy spin-off Mayans M.C as Ezekiel and Angel’s father Felipe Reyes.

On the big screen, Edward starred as police officer Gaff in Blade Runner and was Oscar-nominated for Stand And Deliver, where he played real-life inspirational mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante.

He also played Jennifer Lopez’s on-screen father in her breakout movie, Selena.

If you watched the drama Suits, you’ll remember Rick Hoffman for his role as Harvey’s rival Louis Litt.

Outside of Suits, he had parts in the comedies The Bernie Mac Show and Samantha Who?, as well as playing Dr. Swerdlow opposite Damien Lewis in the drama Billions.

Rick is also a frequent collaborator of the horror writer and director Eli Roth, appearing in Hostel and its sequel, as well as 2023’s Thanksgiving.

Jodie Whittaker is a mainstay of British TV, although arguably no role was bigger than when she played the Thirteenth Doctor between 2017 and 2022 in Doctor Who.

Before she entered the Tardis, Jodie found fame playing the mother of the murdered Danny in Broadchurch, before appearing in firefighting drama The Smoke, medical show Trust Me and a stand-out episode of Black Mirror, The Entire History Of You.

In the last couple of years alone, Jodie has appeared in Toxic Town alongside Aimee Lou Wood, starred with Suranne Jones in the ITV crime drama Frauds and played real-life sports psychologist Pippa Grange in the football drama Dear England.

Will Sasso started his career as part of sketch series Mad TV, before going on to appear in a wide range of comedies, including his most recent stint as Mandy’s dad, Jim, in both Young Sheldon and its spin-off Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.

His film credits include playing Curly in a 2012 biopic about The Three Stooges, Sienna Miller’s on-screen brother-in-law in the drama American Woman and a sheriff in the 2025 horror Clown In A Cornfield.

Science fiction fans will be familiar with Mary Wiseman thanks to her portrayal of Sylvia Tilly in the Star Trek series Discovery.

Mary also had a supporting role in Longmire as Meg Joyce, and more recently played White House executive chef Marvella in the Shondaland drama The Residence on Netflix.

You might have also seen her portraying the serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s sister, Karen, in the US crime series Devil In Disguise, featuring Orange Is The New Black’s Michael Chernus in the central role.

Tony Plana is best known for playing Betty’s dad, Ignacio, in the hit comedy Ugly Betty.

Before that, Tony was a prolific TV actor who appeared in the likes of Hill Street Blues, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The West Wing, 24, and Cagney & Lacey.

He also had a supporting roe in Desperate Housewives as Gabrielle’s abusive stepfather, working alongside Eva Longoria.

Talking of Desperate Housewives, if you watched the show, you’ll know Roger for his performance as the homicidal pharmacist, George Williams, who was infamously obsessed with Wisteria Lane resident Bree Van de Kamp.

Although the Tony-award winning theatre actor is better known for his on-stage work, he also played true crime writer Mason Treadwell in Revenge, the smug TV writer Roger in Matt LeBlanc meta-comedy Episodes and Vice Principal Nero Feint in the Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

He also played Roger Bannister in the remake of The Stepford Wives and Carmen Ghia in the musical The Producers, as well as lending his singing voice to the Disney musical Hercules, performing the film’s signature ballad Go The Distance.

Among Michelle Hurd’s stand-out roles is her recent work as Raffi Musiker in Star Trek: Picard.

She first came to prominence playing Monique in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit before going on to portray Kerry’s girlfriend Courtney in the iconic medical drama ER, Eleanor Waldorf’s strict assistant in the first seasons of Gossip Girl and a main role in the drama series Blindspot.

You may also know her for her recent work as D.A. Samantha Reyes in Jessica Jones and Daredevil, as well as the Sydney Sweeney rom-com Anyone But You, in which she starred as Alexandra Shipp’s character’s mum.

Actor and comedian Lisa Gilroy is a star on the rise.

Her work so far has included a minor role in The Studio as Zoe Kravitz’s publicist, in addition to playing Vermin in Anthony Mackie’s Twisted Metal and Kelseigh in Ted Danson comedy A Man On The Inside.

Her recent work has seen her playing Lily in the new reboot of Scrubs, and a woman who is overcome with Jimmy’s grief in the latest series of Apple TV+’s Shrinking.

If you’re a theatre-goer, you may have seen Norm Lewis in action during one of his many on-stage performances, which include playing Javert in Les Misérables and the title role in The Phantom Of The Opera, as well as its sequel Love Never Dies.

As for his work on screen, he appeared in Spike Lee’s war film Da 5 Bloods and the Hilary Swank crime thriller The Good Mother, as well as portraying Senator Edison Davis in the gripping Scandal.

X Mayo rose to fame earlier this year thanks to her performance as Janelle James in the Marvel series Wonder Man.

She also had a lead role in the sitcom American Auto, and appeared in Maya Rudolph’s Apple TV+ comedy Loot.

Office Romance is streaming now on Netflix

President Donald Trump dipped into his arsenal of insults as he grew increasingly frustrated with “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker doing her job as a journalist before he eventually stormed out of an interview that aired on Sunday. (Watch in the clip below.)

Trump’s crash-out arrived minutes after Welker asked him about the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponisation” fund, a concept that the administration says its “not moving forward” despite the president not ruling out the idea of January 6 rioters getting taxpayer-funded payouts.

After expressing his openness to paying those who attacked police officers during the Capitol riot, he dropped several false, baseless claims regarding the attack, including one about FBI agents “ushering” people into the building and those who pled guilty to assaulting cops.

Welker challenged the president’s fog of falsehoods on multiple occasions, later taking on his talk of “rigged” primary elections that took place in California, evidence of which is about as present as the dodo bird.

“Let me tell you, it’s four days, and they aren’t even close to coming up
with the—,” Trump started.

“That’s how they count the votes in California,” Welker interjected.

“Do you know why they’re doing that? Because they’re cheating on the election,” Trump continued.

“There’s… What? Do you have evidence to support that?” the host asked.

“It’s — all I have to do is look. All I have to do is look,” Trump replied.

“But that’s not evidence,” Welker reminded the president.

Trump went on to accuse California election officials of being “crooked” before attacking Welker, adding, “Just like you’re crooked, your press is crooked. And ‘Meet the Press’ is crooked.”

“You’re either crooked or you’re stupid,” Trump told Welker.

He continued his tantrum about the “crooked” media, a rambling set to the tune of rain hitting the metal roof of a farm building in Wisconsin, the site of the interview.

“You’re a one-sided crooked network. Sorry. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time,” he said as he tossed his microphone to the ground and made a dismissive hand gesture toward Welker.

“Mr. President, let’s ― please, I travelled all the way to Wisconsin,” she pleaded.

“I’ve sat in the rain with you,” said the president, pointing to the roof.

“I know. I travelled all the way—,” she replied.

“I sat in the rain with you for an hour,” repeated Trump as he looked directly at Welker. “On and off in the rain, and I’ve given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press, because you know what? A country can never be great with a dishonest press.”

He then signalled for his team to leave, got up from his seat and proceeded to walk off camera.

After the interviewed aired, Welker said she spoke with the president Saturday and the two acknowledged the “complications” posed by the rain during the interview. Trump has agreed to sit down for another interview, per Welker.

A headteacher once wrote in Dame Judi Dench’s school report: “Judi would be a very good pupil if she lived in this world.” Meanwhile, Sir Stephen Fry fared worse: “He has glaring faults and they have certainly glared at us this term.”

And it seems this level of brutal honesty is sorely missed among some of those teachers penning today’s school reports.

In an eye-opening r/TeachingUK post, one educator shared that “every year it quite annoys me how we aren’t allowed to just flat out tell the truth about a child in the report, everything has to be reworded as a positive as not to offend anyone”.

“For example, the child in my Y4 class who throws chairs and calls me a stupid c*** every day is now being described as ‘working towards making more positive choices in the school day’,” they noted.

“I remember getting my school report back (I was mostly a good kid) which explained how I spent most of the time chatting and not listening, and my mum went mad, best believe I sat and listened as to not get another report like that.”

While they caveated that some school reports in the 1990s did go “a bit far”, the teacher suggested “everything has to be worded positively” in modern-day school reports. And many seemed to be in agreement.

“Yeah it’s gone too far the other way,” said one commenter. “There’s a difference between saying a kid is rude and cruel vs saying they have been acting rude and cruel, and we should be able to say the latter.”

Another chimed in: “It’s daft. I think there’s a lot of reasons honesty should be allowed in reports. One of them being that we are seeing many cases of undiagnosed SEN [special educational needs] such as ADHD, ASD etc where school reports can be a vital piece of info.”

Some suggested that because reports used to be handwritten, teachers “got to be brief, and absolutely brutal”.

“I’ve seen ones that boiled down to ‘John has no aptitude for science and should not continue’. That was it; no euphemisms, no niceties, just absolute honesty,” shared a teacher.

“We were discussing today that we should be allowed to rank the child in parental discussions about behaviour. If that child is the number 1 problem in class you should absolutely be able to call them out on it and make it crystal clear to parents that their child is the worst; not this ‘well other kids in the class…’, ‘boys will be boys…’ excuse-making you get, the cold hard reality that your child is the worst kid in the class.”

But there were a handful of respondents who disagreed that school reports decades ago were not so different to those of today.

“Nah, I’ve read my old school reports from the 90s and they were full of the same old banalities that we use today,” said one educator.

“There’s this false nostalgia for the days of honest school reports, whatever that means. The biggest difference between the reports I received as a child and the reports I write now as a teacher is that the former were handwritten! Can you imagine going back to that?”

Another teacher said that there’s more contact between schools and parents nowadays, meaning serious issues are usually raised before report season, “whereas for some in the 90s, the report and parents evening were nearly the only contact they had with school”.

They ended: “In my view, the long, detailed school report itself is a bit of an anachronism now because of this change in the home-school dynamic.”

There’s been growing discontent with school reports for some time, both from teachers and parents. Back in 2015, The Guardian reported how both parties were increasingly unhappy with “robotic” school reports.

At the time, a deputy headteacher revealed in an op-ed how “many teachers no longer feel that they can tell parents what they really think about their children”.

We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about the fact that cloves and capers are both technically flower buds, while figs are technically inverted flowers.

(Don’t even get me started on their horrific historic relationship with wasps).

So, what about vanilla, which comes in a pod? I’ve never quite been sure whether it counts as a fruit, a vegetable, bean, or something else – never mind how it’s actually grown.

Vanilla beans are not actually beans – they’re really the unripe fruit of an orchid. So, vanilla itself is a fruit.

The pods grow on the climbing plant of the flower’s vine. This long, thin fruit can grow up to 20cm long and can take up to nine months to mature.

They aren’t harvested when they’re fully ripe, though; vanilla is usually picked when its base turns golden-green.

These fruits barely have any smell when they’re picked. The famous vanilla scent comes from enzymatic reactions in the fruit as it’s cured.

Traditionally, the pods were steamed and cured in the sun for about 10 days before five to six months of drying. This process leads to tiny crystals called vanillin – responsible for that sweet smell and taste – forming on the surface of some pods.

The higher the grade of vanilla, the more of these crystals it may have.

Something similar happens to capers; when they’re cured and/or salted, they release mustard oil and rutin. That leads to their signature tang and the little white spots you sometimes see on their skin.

The vanilla orchid is hand-pollinated, even to this day.

While they can be pollinated by insects, too, only one tiny species of bee is designed for the task. These don’t live in all the countries that produce vanilla, either.

And it’s not like the bees (or hand-pollinators) have got a huge window to do their jobs, either. Vanilla flowers tend to stay open for just six to eight hours at a time and usually only do so once a year.

Hand pollination is “an extremely tricky process done with a slim toothpick,” Kew Gardens explained.

After that’s done, you have to wait almost a year for a usable fruit.

The long curing process, along with “the practice of manual pollination, makes vanilla one of the most expensive spices (after saffron),” spice and extract company McCormick’s Science Institute said.

Yes, lots of it. In fact, I’m now convinced I’ve never eaten real vanilla in my life.

Imitation vanilla is a far cheaper, though arguably less delicious, version of the flavour made from manufactured extracts.

Less than 1% of the world’s vanilla flavour (vanillin) comes from vanilla orchids, Scientific American said.

Other ways to achieve a similar taste involve guaiacol, a fragrant liquid made by distilling wood-tar creosote or tree resin. That’s responsible for about 85% of the world’s vanilla flavour.

And manufacturers use lignin for the rest, a substance found in things like cow manure and wood pulp.

So, Kew Gardens explained, “much of the ‘vanilla essence’ commonly used today is actually made from wood pulp or coal tar”.