New season of Arrested Development released today

[Dr. Love]

Anyone else watch some of this yet? AD is my favorite show (ever) and the first run was incredibly awesome (especially the 2nd season).

I've watched 7 episodes of the new season and I really feel like they've made a huge mistake. Most of the time it's not funny ... its just sad.

[FORD]

Haven't seen any of it yet, but I guess I'm not surprised if it fell short.

ADKOT was really a fluke in that respect.... usually if you take several years off from any sort of creative project, there's a serious reduction in quality.

Sadly, I think that's why Mike Judge only made one "new" season of Beavis & Butthead, though I thought some of them were as good as the originals.

[ELVIS]

Most of the time it's not funny ... its just sad.

Really ??

That sucks...:(

[Dr. Love]

Really ??

That sucks...:(

Some of the episodes are ok ... The gob ones. Lindsay, Michael, George Michael and George's are generally not great.

[Zing!]

Planning on tuning in to a few episodes today. Huge fan of the original series.

[TFM_Dale]

Anyone else watch some of this yet? AD is my favorite show (ever) and the first run was incredibly awesome (especially the 2nd season).

I've watched 7 episodes of the new season and I really feel like they've made a huge mistake. Most of the time it's not funny ... its just sad.

Really? I'm so bummed out. I haven't had a chance to watch them yet but I was looking forward to it. Loved that show.

[Dr. Love]

Give it a shot, but it didn't have the original magic to me. It was at times very dark. I enjoyed how the original show had everyone happily clueless. Loved the irony and at times over-the-top nature of things. In the new series, you really see people hit the bottom and it's just not fun to watch characters you love suffer so much and not really get any redemption.

[TFM_Dale]

I'll watch just because I loved the show. Hell, I watched that God awful Alf movie because I loved the show as a kid so how bad can these episodes really be?

[FORD]

Watched about half of them last night. Does seem to be a bit of a "bummer" throughout the whole thing. It's like Morrissey wrote the screenplays and decided to make everybody miserable.

[Zing!]

Yep, pretty much agree. It was a bit too nonsensical at times and the characters are simply stretched too thin. The single character episodes just don't work. They need to get the old format back. There were a couple of moments where they almost recaptured the magic (Michael's second episode with Ron Howard was great), but the laugh out loud moments where few and far between.

[ELVIS]

http://geektyrant.com/storage/0998-post-images/header-arrested-development-season-4-first-full-trailer.jpg


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[ELVIS]

Lindsay Bluth looks like shit...

http://www.hji.co.uk/blogs/celebrity-hair/2013/05/03/PortiaDeRossi.jpg


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[Sarge]

If I can watch parks and recreation I can watch anything!

[Dr. Love]

Lindsey actually looked remarkably like Sally Sitwell in the new episodes. It was uncanny.

The more I think on it, the more I really only liked the first Gob episode. Hello darkness, my old friend.

[Dr. Love]

Yep, pretty much agree. It was a bit too nonsensical at times and the characters are simply stretched too thin. The single character episodes just don't work. They need to get the old format back. There were a couple of moments where they almost recaptured the magic (Michael's second episode with Ron Howard was great), but the laugh out loud moments where few and far between.

Yeah... I don't get it. Why take an ensemble cast show, a show that's driven by the interactions of its core characters, and then seperate them?

[Dr. Love]

The original season 4 outline sounded much more promising... Lucille goes to prison (doing the time of her life) and Lucille 2 becomes the new mother of the family, which freaks buster out. Tobias is revealed to actually have been a black man all along (there is so much foreshadowing for this its unreal).

[FORD]

One minor complaint.... what's with all the censored "bleeps" on a show that isn't actually airing on TV, and therefore isn't subject to FCC censorship rules?

Tobias being a black man? Not sure how they would pull that off, but it would be more interesting than implying he's a closet case, but still hooking up with women (or whatever that was).

In any case, the ending certainly implies that there are more episodes in the works. Whether they will actually materialize is another question.

[Dr. Love]

One minor complaint.... what's with all the censored "bleeps" on a show that isn't actually airing on TV, and therefore isn't subject to FCC censorship rules?

Tobias being a black man? Not sure how they would pull that off, but it would be more interesting than implying he's a closet case, but still hooking up with women (or whatever that was).

In any case, the ending certainly implies that there are more episodes in the works. Whether they will actually materialize is another question.

Tobias is an albino black man: The Arrested Development writers were known for using a lot of foreshadowing (think of all the references to Buster losing his arm to a seal, none of which will be included here because they’re well-documented elsewhere). One such plot development that the writers started to foreshadow but never followed through on was about Tobias being revealed to be a black man with a rare skin condition. Arrested Development star Alia Shawkiat spilled the beans in an interview, saying:
“[The writers have] gone on little tangents where you think they're going to start a storyline and they'll pull it back. I remember they were going to do one about Tobias actually being a rare black person, where he would have this rare disease and was actually black. It's these hysterical, crazy ideas that they could have continued on.”
Fox cutting the second and third seasons short might have had something to do with this plotline being dropped, but there are references to Tobias being a black man sprinkled throughout the show. Here are a few:

Tobias: I am surprised that she’s going after somebody so similar to my own type.
(in reference to Lindsay flirting with Ice the Bounty Hunter, from the episode “Good Grief”)

Lindsay: People hear the name Tobias, they think ‘big black guy.’
Tobias: Well, obviously, I’m not a big guy. I’m not a Carl Weathers, par example. (from the episode “Afternoon Delight”)
Lucille: Michael. I was almost attacked last night in my own home. I walk in and there’s a colored man in my kitchen.
Michael: “Colored?” What color was he exactly?
Lucille: Blue. (from the episode “Afternoon Delight”)

Lindsay (to Maeby): I don’t know where that hair of yours came from. (in reference to how Maeby’s frizzy hair hurt her chances in child beauty pageants, from the episode “Notapusy”)

And then, there’s the cover of Tobias’s book, The Man Inside Me:

http://s24.theawl.com/sid/up/2012/08/maninsideme.jpg

[ELVIS]

What, are you a fucking Arrested Development conspiracy theorist now ??

[FORD]

Just in case anybody gives a shit.....

The "Arrested Development" team has re-edited the 4th season, and rather than an entire episode focused on one character's perspective, as this season was originally released, the "remixed" version has been re-sequenced to run like a typical sitcom, and thus now is 22 episodes the same length they were on broadcast TV, instead of the 15 longer episodes as they originally appeared on Netflix.

It's available now on Netflix (or anywhere else you might look for such things "unofficially"