![]() ![]() As a diehard fan of the series, I had of course watched the first Netflix-original installment at the time it was released, but creator Mitchell Hurwitz has since recut the infamous nonlinear 15-episode season into a more linear 22-episode edit called “Season 4 Remix: Fateful Consequences.” (In a funny little foreshadowing of today’s trend of streamers taking down content we took for granted as permanent, Netflix removed the original iteration of S4 off the service entirely when the Remix was released-a decision I have always vehemently disagreed with.) With the announcement that Netflix was taking down Arrested Development-both the two Netflix-produced seasons and the original three-I decided it was time to finally catch up on the last two. The remainder of this article contains ***SPOILERS*** for all of Arrested Development. Our debut installment on The Last of Us was up to the minute and highly topical, while this week’s is a remember-me-now on the huge mistakes made by a once great show that blue itself. Welcome back to Sin’s Soapbox, where every Friday I reflect on the TV I’m watching or thinking about. So the new stuff we get is gravy: even if it’s awful, it doesn’t actually change anything.”Įvery single part of that statement was wrong. “The way I’m trying to look at it is that we’ll always have the first three seasons, and nothing will take that away. ![]() History also vindicated this prognostication, as pretty much no one anywhere ended up considering the strange, alien fourth season to be on the originals’ level.īut I offered my friend a reassurance to the latter part of his concern. The first part of that worry was not unfounded, given that fans already viewed the third season as a bit of a decline from the acerbic, whip-smart comedic heights of the instant-classic first two. He was concerned that the new season likely wouldn’t be up to the standard of the original three- Ron Howard voice: it wasn’t-and that this would effectively ruin the series. While there was a sizable contingent that was naturally excited for the revival of a series we all felt had been misunderstood and mishandled by its own network of origin, others were less enthused.įor the last ten or more years, I’ve vividly remembered an exchange I had with my old friend John. The video opens with the “Trump-rested Development” credits, but instead of being “created by Mitchell Hurwitz,” it’s created by “racism and stupidity.” Trump first discusses his involvement with the Birtherism and says, “I was the one who got to produce the birth certificate, and I think I did a good job,” only for Howard to pipe in, “But he really didn’t,” and when he claims that Secretary Clinton also fought the birth certificate issue saying “It’s true,” Howard shoots back again, “But it wasn’t.When it was first announced that the famously twice-canceled cult comedy Arrested Development was coming back with a fourth season produced and distributed by Netflix-way back in 2013, when streaming originals as a whole were still a new, unproven concept-reactions from fans were mixed. READ MORE: Arthouse Trump Speaks! The Man Behind the Film Parody Feed Explains Himself - Exclusive Now, NeverCaesar’s parody video “Trump-rested Development” has mashed up Howard’s narration with some of Trump’s statements at the first presidential debate so that the narrator can fact check Trump in real time. If the Bluth’s tell a lie, Howard’s narrator character is there to catch them in the act. On the acclaimed Fox/Netflix TV series “ Arrested Development,” executive producer Ron Howard narrates the story of the Bluth family, providing transition to various connected but unrelated events, occasionally providing his own commentary on the proceedings and most importantly, he fact checks statements.
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