'Arrested Development' to Return to Netflix for Season Five in 2018

Mmm Michael Cera

Michael Cera is one of the ugliest people Hollywood has ever tried to inflict on the public. He looks simultaneously like a fetus and an elderly man.

Love this show, yes season 4 had some issues due to the cast not all being available at once but they aren't going to do that this time.

I rewatch old episodes pretty often, it's great stuff.

R3 The previous seasons are absolute gems. I wish I could see them for the first time again.

This better be better than the previous revival. Which did get better towards the end, to be fair.

I would hump that Michael cera any time

Michael Cera shocked me in "This is the End" that he has a surprisingly nice and perky ass. Never would have guessed that.

Sometimes it's better just to let things go.

That mantra is long gone r7.

Season 4 is very different. But it wasn't bad at all.

Cera used to be a cutie pie.

Ron Howard started recording his voiceover today.

Jeffrey the groping tranny-chaser, Tambor? Would they bring him back? Could they? And who s that guy with the receding hairline at the front there? He looks familiar.

I tried to watch this on Netflix because I had read so many good things about it. I stopped halfway through the first episode. I had the feeling the show was very much of that Hollywood vein of "pure genius" programming featuring Jewish people yelling at each other for a half hour, like "Curb Your Enthusiasm."

Translation: "I couldn't get past Tambor being Jewish".

You just keep telling yourself it's anti-Semitism if it makes you feel better, honey.

No, please. Loved the first three seasons but 4 was a total mess. And Portia now has a completely different face, not in a good way.

Agreed R16. I couldn't get past Portia's surgicaly-altered face to the extent I cringed every time she came on. But the worst part of Season 4 was the scripts, where it seemed as if they were trying to burn their legacy to the ground. Did it get better? I watched maybe 5 episodes then couldn't go on.

The episodes were just a little too long. They should have stuck with the 22 minute broadcast length.

I liked the TV run, but did not the netfilx season at all.

Will Liza be back?

Coming sometime this summer. I'm already dreading it.

🍌🍌🍌🍌🖕🖕🖕

We want Liza!!

Liza wears a diaper now. I don't think she's ready to shoot a single camera show on location anymore.

Trailer.

Premieres May 29.

I want Will Arnett to be my analrapist.

Hey, kidsh!

They've schejuled my cameo! I jusht got the call!

I'm gettin' pitchure perfecsht!

May 30!

Lizsha's back, baby!

Liza’s character was found dead at the end of season 4. The new season is partially about the mystery of who killed her.

Unfortunately the show is likely to get buried in bullshit about Jeffrey Tambor.

R1 = Michael Cera

There is no Liza r25

[bold]Arrested Development season 5 will be split in half[/bold]

[quote]The 16-episode fifth season of Mitch Hurwitz’s irreverent, ultra-dysfunctional comedy will be split in half, with eight episodes arriving on May 29, EW has learned. The second half of the season, which also contains eight episodes, will debut sometime later this year.

Interesting how Netflix is playing with not releasing entire seasons at once now.

I was a fan of the original Netflix Season 4, but admit I'm enjoying the new remixed chronological version. It does point out some major gaps in story, but it's easier to follow.

Scheduling the actors for Season 4 was likely a nightmare. It had to be a lot easier to get this group of actors together for Season 5, as most of them are now in a lot less demand.

[bold]Arrested Development feels like its old self again[/bold]

A score of B for the first seven episodes is not that bad.

[quote]Tangled is a good place for Arrested Development to be. That may not seem like the case after season four, whose numerous plots were made additionally confusing by the non-chronological episode order, but season five feels more cohesive, like the Bluths are all mixed up with each other, not on their own tangents. And maybe it’s the placebo effect of having the show’s traditional format back, but season five has the rhythm season four lacked. Season four’s structure, such as it was, required a reset at the beginning of nearly every episode. Season five moves from point to point, building on and riffing off what came before, and Arrested Development feels like its old self again.

[quote]More important, season five is funny, and gets funnier as it proceeds. The first episode has a lot of heavy lifting with exposition, but lands enough laughs to not make fans nervous. The episodes offer a bounty of the clever wordplay that made Arrested Development so quotable, and some funny scenes that stand with the series’ best.

That's reassuring.

The five-minute recap at the start of the first episode reminded me what a convoluted mess the fourth season was. I got vertigo just watching that.

Aside from George Jr and Maeby recalling one of Lucille's life lessons, I didn't laugh once. Hope the rest is better. And Tambor... eugh, wouldn't even notice if he was gone.

The fourth season was unwatchable and this whole #metoo mansplaining PR debacle has pretty much completely put me off the show.

r37 I swore to myself I wasn't going to watch it but I just couldn't help myself as I loved the first three seasons so much back in the day. It's getting better as the season progresses but you're really not missing much if you've decided to skip it. It's more watchable than the fourth season for sure, but not by much.

The re-mix of the fourth season has made it palatable.

Yeah I want to check out their recut version of Season 4 before I watch the new season.

Agree that the recut has brought out the funnier bits in Season 4.

There’s a lot of damning with faint praise in this thread.