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Arrested Development officially renewed for season 5 on Netflix
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WordAssassin
Member
Isn't she.. dead? I don't remember exactly but I thought it was implied she died in that pile of garbage?
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I finished it and it had funny stuff in it but it wasn't a holistic success like the show was previously. It didn't work for me and lots of others feel the same. Don't worry about it.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
JOYOUS NEWS!
JOUYOUS FUCKING NEWS!
WHO THE FUCK ATE MY HARDBOILED EGGS?!?!?!?
JOUYOUS FUCKING NEWS!
WHO THE FUCK ATE MY HARDBOILED EGGS?!?!?!?
Major Gripex
Member
FINALLY.
How can a person say this and also like AD? Lady Dynamite is it's spiritual successor as far as I am concerned.
streetsahead123
Banned
Very happy about this, but wasn't there a story a few months ago about how season 5 was gonna be 18 episodes and half would be a prequel with a different cast playing younger versions of the characters? Really hope they've reconsidered.
Preach. Season 4 was amazing, never got the hate.
ebullientprism
Member
Yep. Loved season 4. It was better than season 3. Not as good as 1 or 2 though.
Cant wait for this.
Cant wait for this.
I haven't seen her in much else, but pretty much every scene she was involved with in S4 was not my cup of tea.
dead souls
Member
Zero hype, but it can't be as bad as season four.
streetsahead123
Banned
Season 4 could have been great if it wasn't so bloated. That George Sr ep that was 40 minutes was goddamn unforgivable.
tearsintherain
Member
Pretty ambivalent, season 4 wasn't good and I don't honestly think they could ever re-capture the magic of seasons 1 & 2. Happy to be proved wrong but I sorta feel like this show is going down the path of taking a great show and dragging it into the ground.
WordAssassin
Member
It really helps to watch through it more than once. I don't know if you have or not, and obviously if you just straight up don't like it you can't be expected to watch through it again, but even more so than the other seasons it really really benefits from multiple viewings.
I wonder if we'll ever see the recut :S
Gazoogleheimmer
Member
I'm excited, and I know it will be great if the whole cast is around for shooting.
I've watched S1-3 100 times, but only S4 once. I remember liking some parts, but not others.
I've watched S1-3 100 times, but only S4 once. I remember liking some parts, but not others.
EatinOlives
Member
I don't even think the cast being "apart" was the biggest problem with Season 4. I re-watched Seasons 1-3 just before 4 released and there were tons of scenes in S1-3 where not all of the cast members were present in the same room. But each episode still followed the cast members through their own plots, however minor they may have been. Season 4's stubbornness to make each episode revolve around only one character made the season essentially a string of bad pilots for Arrested Development spinoffs. Not all characters in the cast can lead their own show, and Season 4 made it painfully obvious.
By far the biggest problems with Season 4, in my opinion, were the glacial pace at which the episodes moved and the extra ~8 minutes per episode making for some bizarre pacing that made episodes both feel too long and feel like they ended abruptly at the end. There were also long stretches where they wouldn't try to make jokes, and the constant revisiting of the same scenes with some "slight" tweaks in perspective just made the whole thing a slog.
They also hitched their wagon to some really bad B-plots. I like Maria Bamford but the whole DeBrie thing, from character to plot to related jokes, was a complete flop through and through.
By far the biggest problems with Season 4, in my opinion, were the glacial pace at which the episodes moved and the extra ~8 minutes per episode making for some bizarre pacing that made episodes both feel too long and feel like they ended abruptly at the end. There were also long stretches where they wouldn't try to make jokes, and the constant revisiting of the same scenes with some "slight" tweaks in perspective just made the whole thing a slog.
They also hitched their wagon to some really bad B-plots. I like Maria Bamford but the whole DeBrie thing, from character to plot to related jokes, was a complete flop through and through.
Bloodporne
Member
I had assumed Season 4 was the death rattle. Depressingly unfunny coming from the absolute comedy gold that were the first three seasons.
Fun fact, I used to see George Sr. at the supermarket regularly and it was pretty glorious.
Fun fact, I used to see George Sr. at the supermarket regularly and it was pretty glorious.
Skellig Gra
Member
I finished it. It just wasn't very funny.
IggyChooChoo
Member
I strongly agree; Lady Dynamite almost feels like a spinoff of AD. But I do admit Lady Dynamite is a much better showcase of Maria's brilliance than DeBrie was.
Been obsessed with AD since the first season, but could not get into Lady Dynamite at all. Tried three episodes and had to quit. Felt like watching in on somebody else's roleplay therapy.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
Fuck yes. And S4 was great, just not quite as great as the previous seasons.
talkingood
Member
She's incredibly funny, but her character wasn't my favourite in the show. You should check out her stand-up, she is one of the funniest comics alive if you can relate to her mental health struggles.
With GOB as his campaign manager.
Dr. Black Jack
Member
Please make it funny again. Season 4 was a neat experiment but a chore to watch.
BaloneyFraise
Member
Season 4 was brilliant but pretty much unenjoyable to watch, like a pretentious double LP that would have been a masterpiece if it was trimmed down to a single disc (does that even make sense?).
Still looking forward to this new season.
Still looking forward to this new season.
paragonpro
Banned
For british eyes only!!
pretty done
Member
Official AD Twitter account seems to be implying that the cast won't be having their own episodes in the new season:
At least they know why season 4 sucked. Will watch S5 if this is the case, but no way I'm gonna try and go back to finish 4.
PhantomThief
Banned
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tauroxd
Member
By the time this is out (2018), it will be 5 years from season 4 (2013). All that wait wasn't about the script not being ready or something like that, but waiting for the perfect time to shoot with all of them together.
SoulUnison
Banned
I hope they've been using that time to polish the scripts up to a mirror sheen, rather than just shelving them until the right moment.
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
I just found out seasons one through three are leaving Netflix this month. What the...? Why announce season five and then dump the best episodes that might have helped build some hype?
SoulUnison
Banned
I imagine they'll either stop them from being pulled or re-introduce them with notable fanfare in the lead up to season 5 releasing.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
It's not like future seasons were going to be in that format anyway.
All Fox shows are being removed from Netflix.
MetalGearZed
Member
what....the fuck..
WTF Fox and or Netflix. I guess that sorta explains American Dad leave. so i guess that means they'll be taking Family Guy off too. damn
TheSinkingKnight
Member
Well that's good to hear. I'm sure Netflix wanted to keep AD on the service even if the other Fox shows left since people are much less likely to give AD a shot if the show starts at Season 4.
TheSinkingKnight
Member
Yeah, I agree.
"Season 4 and 5 available, but no 1-3? Never watching this!" would be the common reaction for sure.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
the_batman
Banned
hell yeah
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
The writing for season 4 was really sharp, the problem was that the characters were made to work as an ensemble. So when they were split up, some worked far better than others. Michael, for example, couldn't be the straight man without the weirdos so he had to change somewhat (although I thought it was very natural what they did). They were also more reliant on outside characters - Debris, Rebel, etc. because of the inability to get the cast together. I'd be very optimistic if they have scheduled everyone together.
Fluffhead14
Member
Please no 40 minutes episodes.