This May marks 10 years since the premiere of Netflix’s 'Arrested Development' revival, though you’re not going to have an easy time finding it on the platform’s homepage. More from beastobsessed:
as it looked like it might earlier this yearNetflix’s decision to replace Season 4 with a broadcast TV-minded edit shows a baffling misunderstanding of the show’s history, let alone the streamer’s own role in it. For basically the entirety of its original three-season run on Fox,struggled to find an audience. “The tough thing about this show is that it does reward those who pay attention,”, upon the show’s cancellation in 2005. “We’re making a show for DVD.
When Netflix eventually revived the show, as part of its first slate of original programming in 2013, the fourth season arrived keen to inhabit its new format. As a result,’s return appeared almost hostile to traditional TV-viewing approaches.
A much wider scope, unburdened from the confines of weekly episodes and the linear reveal of information, allows the season’s most ambitious and coy long-form jokes to actually catch the viewer off-guard in a unique way. We spend most of the season, for instance, hearing about “Fakeblock,” a massive new software startup developed by George Michael .
Even when it’s obvious that we’re only getting half the joke, we’re still better off for the delayed payoff. There’s a scene in the first Lindsay-centric (
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