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That’s right, people; The Four Seasons is officially coming back for a third season, which means Kate, Jack, Danny, Claude, Anne and Ginny aren’t done with their yearly holidays just yet.

Netflix confirmed the renewal not long after season two wrapped up, giving fans another chance to spend time with Netflix’s most entertainingly complicated friendship group. And honestly, after everything that went down during the latest season, it’d have been hard to imagine the story finishing here.

A highly awaited season two arrived with the emotional fallout of Nick’s death hanging over everything, and it completely changed the feel of the show. The core Four Seasons has always been about friendship and all the messy bits that come with adulthood, but Nick’s absence was very much noticed this time. It seemed to add extra weight to every conversation and every reunion.

The holidays carried on, the laughs carried on, and the arguments definitely carried on, but there was always that reminder that one of the group’s longest-standing members wasn’t there anymore.

Things got underway with a trip to upstate New York, where Kate, Jack, Danny, Claude, Anne and Ginny came back together to scatter Nick’s ashes. Sounds straightforward enough, doesn’t it? Only it didn’t stay that way for long. Old tensions soon started bubbling back up, and feelings that had been kept under the surface for years came back into the conversation. One thing The Four Seasons has always done really well is show how friendships that have lasted decades come with plenty of baggage, and season two showed how the group dealt with the loss of Nick while dealing with the problems of their own.

Then the gang headed off to Italy, and that’s where things got really interesting. Danny and Claude had settled in Trento after deciding not to pursue parenthood, and the final episodes spent a lot of time exploring what that decision might mean for them going forward. But the moment that really got people talking centred on Anne. During the finale, she met a neighbour called Gianpiero, which was already a funny little twist considering she’d invented the exact same name for an imaginary boyfriend earlier in the episode. Then came the surprise. The neighbour turned out to be played by David Tennant, and it didn’t take long for fans to start wondering what season three might have planned next.

At the minute, nobody knows exactly where the story is going next, but Netflix and the creative team have dropped a few hints. The show’s signature setup isn’t going anywhere, so viewers can expect another year built around four seasonal trips and four different destinations. Where those trips will take the group is still under wraps, but the cast have already started throwing a few ideas around. Marco Calvani has said he’d love to finally introduce Danny’s and Claude’s famous “other, hotter friend group”, and judging by what Colman Domingo’s been saying, he is more than up for making that happen.

There is another detail worth keeping an eye on as well, and that’s Ginny. She became a much bigger part of the story during season two, and Tina Fey has confirmed she will continue travelling with the group going forward. That means Nick’s influence on the story isn’t disappearing any time soon, and his presence will still be felt even after everything that’s happened.

Netflix hasn’t announced a release date just yet, but the message from the renewal is pretty clear. The holidays aren’t over, and The Four Seasons has plenty left in the tank.

And if you have spent the last two seasons travelling with this group, that’s probably exactly what you were hoping to hear.