Upon further review....Arrested Development season 4 - Update Pg1

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What are the boards thoughts on 4?

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I never even finished it...

maybe I need to give it another shot

Me and bojengales tried to tell you guys

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Me either. I only chuckled a couple times through 5 or 5 episodes so I gave up.

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That's how I was the first watch, but like I said I think I went in with the mindset of "there's no way this will live up to the AD name, it can't be good. They should never have made this anyway". Watching it now with a more open mind it's been very enjoyable.

Another reason I think I disliked it the first time was that in 1-3, all of the storylines are for the most part self-contained, for lack of a better phrase. It's mostly all based around their hometown and that's where most things happen. In 4 you've got people going to india, GM in college, people in mexico...it's all over the map. But the humor is the same, which is enjoyable to me.

Count me in the group that didn't finish it. I will give it another go eventually.

Ok I just finished it up last night. Continuing with my thoughts in the OP, I was pleasantly surprised. The humor is the exact same as 1-3, which is awesome. And as to be expected with an AD rewatch, I picked up a few little jokes that I missed the first time. I originally didn't care for the style of this season (each episode about a character, everything coming together at cinco) but it didn't really bother me this time. And a lot of the stories with other characters will overlap with whatever character-centric episode is on.

Really the biggest gripe I have, which I don't see how anyone could disagree, is with the ending. And when I say ending, I mean like the last 5 seconds.

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So michael and george michael find out they're dating the same person. They meet outside her apartment. GM punches his dad in the face and they stand there and stare at each other blankly while the camera shoots from the side. Done, end season. Wtf? If they were absolutely POSITIVE they were having another season it miiiight be tolerable, but since last week was the first we've heard of 5 that doesn't seem like it was a sure thing, and it's not exactly a quick turnaround from the end of 4 to beginning of 5. So the alternative is they had not a clue if they'd make another season (or worse, didn't think they'd ever do one at all), and left it that way. It's pretty irritating that that's the route they went in. Even after S3, even though there were surely unanswered questions, at least we saw michael and GM riding off into the sunset. This one is just a complete wtf ending.