Arrested Development Season 4 + Movie

SEASON 4 IS LIVE, BITCHES!

If only Australia had access to Netflix....

Use Media Hint. Though I don't know if the free trial needs a credit/debit card or not.

So, I blew through it all day, nothing better to do. It gets really complicated. Ends oddly anti-climatically, they must be pretty sure they're getting to do a movie or something.

For me it was satisfying but I wasn't a devout fan, also I'm difficult to get a laugh out of......anyway, gets better as it goes on.

I'll take a look

And maybe I might binge Seasons 1-3 instead of casually catching episodes.

I'm halfway through. 7 out of 15 episodes. The gradual approach would be better for intrigue, though, like who was the woman GOB was sleeping with? (don't tell me)

I hope it isn't Rebel, because I wouldn't actually mind Michael/Rebel. Even though Michael isn't exactly above stealing a girl... Marta. Alternatively, now that I think about it, Michael/Kitty would be a hilarious relationship.

I'll just say this: There is a lot of funny things you'll look back on in that post.

I'm already expecting it to either be Rebel or Kitty. But I would be pleasantly surprised if it was Marta. Especially if it was another new actress.

It's not a woman, is it? And they weren't sleeping together, and it just looks like it?

So, that other Magician character, then, right?

edited 26th May '13 8:55:13 PM by Nicknacks

You're, um, two-thirds right.

So either they were sleeping together, or its George Senior. lol

So I knew the GOB episode was going to be great, but Episode 11, and its stinger, was...

wow.

Wonderful.

edited 27th May '13 4:57:38 PM by wanderlustwarrior

The one thing I didn't like was how each and every storyline basically end on a cliff hanger, but then I remember that it was going to be a lead in to a film so it makes sense.

It was really, really good and did a great job of ramping up the relatively tight continuity of the first three season to an intricate Jigsaw Puzzle Plot. Also, Mayby's storyline was rather depressing.

It may not be a film (yet). While a movie is probably how they'll end the series for good, the mass amounts of hype and mostly positive reception has Netflix extremely willing to do another season.

Not as bad as the first episode...

Someone made a sleep-deprived prediction from episode 10 that turned out to be really accurate.

I still haven't gotten to a Buster episode yet... him with backbone is great. But you know what this season really needs? ICE.

I will say this, because it was apparent from the first episode. I don't like Seth Rogen as young George Sr., at all. His look and characterization doesn't work. Plus, now that I've seen episode 13, they flashed back to the Cornballer, and had to not show his face at all, because Jeffery Tambor was still George Sr. at that age.

edited 27th May '13 10:46:30 PM by wanderlustwarrior

Buster is episode 14, and episode 15 is the second George Michael episode.

So, if I've done the math correctly, Buster, Maeby, and Lucille are the ones that only get one episode apiece.

EDIT: Also, be sure to read the descriptions of the episodes. They're part of the gag.

The one on the first George Michael episode makes it sound like it's going to be a love triangle episode. While that does occur in the plot, it's a grand total of 30 seconds.

edited 27th May '13 10:51:25 PM by BadWolf21

I disliked Seth Rogen's George Sr. the more I saw it. It became increasingly obvious he was just doing a really crappy Tambor impression.

That, and the agelessness of Lucille and George Sr. has always been one of my favorite gags.

I don't really like Seth Rogen, period. I'll check his page, but I can't think of anything he's done that I like, atm. His Superbad cop was decent, but that's about it.

I've decided to save the season finale for another day.

Kristen Wiig, on the other hand...

Seth Rogen is a good actor, but he happens to be in a lot of comedies that just aren't my thing.

I loved The Green Hornet movie, though.

SPOILERS FOR EVERYTHING.

And now the story of a wealthy family who left everything on a cliffhanger, and the one troper who had no choice but to keep them all together... It's Arrested Development.

His out of work experience, alienation from everyone, especially including his love triangle with his son
Her growing likeness to her adoptive mother, and her congressional campaign against her old hairless rival
His potential to lead the company, and gay experience with his rival/friend, who doesn't remember it and wants to do it again, possibly as a trap
His love triangle with his father over an attractive redhead who only knows him as the genius behind a fake internet startup
Her upcoming trial for statuatory rape, lack of income, and perpetual unimportance to her parents
His trial for supposedly murdering his lover/mother figure, assault of a politician, and quest to grow up
His pending threats for him and his suicidal, drug addict girlfriend to go back to jail
With his looming divorce, newly questioned gender identity, and usurping twin brother
And her looming divorce, momentarily questioned life, and lack of positive connection to anyone
Featuring his newfound viciousness towards his twin brother and that brother's family.

Yes, I think Oscar should be promoted to the opening credits.

Also, damn this new format for finding threads for specific characters easily. I'm pretty sure I missed something for Tobias and Lucille.

edited 28th May '13 11:07:39 PM by wanderlustwarrior

The race is for the Senate, and it's Sally Sitwell that's running.

Congress includes the house and the senate, and Lindsay and Sally are running against each other, in some symmetry with the past.

"Congress" on its own, usually just refers to the house. And you referred to Lindsay's rival as hairless. Sally isn't hairless (in fact, it was implied that she may be a man).

Umm, no. Aside from her history with Michael and Tony making us pretty sure that she's a woman, there were 3 jokes in a row (to make it clear) that implied she was hairless.

When she was shaving Tony Wonder's leg and cutting him, she mentioned she's never done it before, at all. So, not even on herself.
Her eyebrow falls off, and he refers to the line of hair as a "caterpillar", before she claims it got away but can be seen quickly adjusting something above her eye.
He refers to also seeing a similar "hairy moth" in the shower, and she looks down, to somewhere she wouldn't usually worry about other people noticing.

And considering her father is also completely hairless, I think the safest assumption after all that is that it runs in the family, rather than that she's a man.

I get the joke now. I didn't notice all of those (granted, this was nearing the seventh hour in a row, so I was very tired. :P