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[Arrested Development][Season 4 - 05/26] I just blue myself
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Season 4 is being released on Netflix on May 26. That's this coming Sunday!
Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's Arrested Development.
Classic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axHe_BVY_9cSeason 4 Buster Trailer
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Netflix posted a few short clips that are increasingly more hilarious.
Like, It is considered a good thing or a bad thing if someone uses their "free month" to watch all the episodes and then bails?
You mean, if it attracts new customers? That would be a very very good thing. It means the show brought in a new customer(who gave the a credit card number), and the rest of the service just failed to keep them.
Guess it will be better to watch it tomorrow, but I feel like I'd be able to restrict myself to an episode or two tonight rather than tomorrow morning.
like even if it was 2 PM I'd rather not go to bed
wsj says 12:00 pacific so 3 AM here... I don't know if that's a fact though.
Second episode: HERE WE GO! This is awesome. Digging the focusing on a single character format. Works really really well with Netflix dropping all episodes at once. Can't really stay up to keep watching, but awesome! Hope it stays strong.
edit: digging the cameos too. And having just watched the other 3 seasons again a week or two ago, they are making tons of amusing references.
Edit: also I hate what got done with Michael's character. He was always this much of a near do well, but he was never this pathetic.
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edit - first ep is funny but the show gets stronger over the first 3, and I imagine it'll keep building.
The watermark thing on old footage is a great little joke. I thought something was wrong at first but then it kept showing up. They got me.
Also, yes, Maeby got super attractive.
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Amazing.
I feel like she's Michael Jackson'd herself with plastic surgery.
It's been a decade. She aged ten years.
Second episode: Much better, but I could see instances of what they were talking about where they superimposed people into scenes thanks to a green screen.
Third episode: Step backwards, Portia's face freaks me out.
I don't know what their budget was, but they seem to be making it work rather well. But some of the cameos aren't good.
It looks like all of Winkler's stuff is green screened so far.
I like it.
I can never tell if people are retarded, humorless and/or being ironic online.
I mean, showstealer pro trial version is pretty friggin hilarious.
It took me a minute to catch that one the first time they did it. First episode was just bad. Michael was always a bit less pathetic than all that. Second one I enjoyed much more, but still not fully sold. Then again I didn't really get into the show until like my second or third run through so maybe it needs to grow on me. The wife loves it (save for the Michael bits she described as "physically painful to watch").
So far it's not as good as the original run, and it doesn't quite look to have the same rewatch value and suffers a little from too many callbacks (some are hilarious, some not so much). But the intermixing of the episodes is done to great effect, slowly peeling away layers of the story. Maybe I'll appreciate the early episodes more when I get to the end because of that.
episode 5: great. Maria Bamford hella underrated.
Also, re: Tobias
Classic.
Can't wait for Maebe's episode. Her continued career as a film executive was always my favorite part about the original series.
I don't mind the cameos. Ed Helms was fine, although I don't remember him being in the originals. Any episode or season number I can reference?
It's also great seeing Ron Howard as himself, considering his other role on the series as the voiceover.
And of course Isla Fisher is an amazingly beautiful woman and I was pleased when I saw her name in the credits before the new season came out, and so far her character has been great.
I found it so distracting I couldnt watch the episode. I wanted to find out if they had a different actress and portia dubed the lines to fuck with us. Towards the end some of the scenes really looked like her again. It was just really jarring. She aged 10 hollywood years, where she looked fine, but 10 years older, so she had 15 years of work done on her. Also she didnt look like this in 2010 in better off ted. That or she lost weight and was already skinny.
edit: for a bit I thought it was christina flockhart
Yes, it is extremely distracting. Every time she's on screen I'm trying to reconcile what I know with what I'm seeing on the screen. She literally looks like a different person. The fact that it has been approximately 10 years is not a valid reason for why she looks so different, considering none of the rest of the cast looks like they walked through a face scrambler.
And I also agree that some scenes she looks more like herself that others. Depending on how long this new season was in production, it could be that she had all that facial reconstruction done mid-shooting, and some scenes were pre-op and some were post-op.
it definitely takes a few episodes to pick up but its pretty good! portia de rossi's looks do seem to change from scene to scene though.
I don't think it's a matter of aging. She was in Better Off Ted, which wasn't all that long ago and looking at her in Better off Ted and seeing her in this, it definitely looks like something has changed. I'm not saying it's plastic surgery, there's always a possibility it's something else but there's a definite change there. If it is plastic surgery that will sadden me a bit, as I always felt Portia de Rossi was a naturally beautiful and exceedingly funny woman.
That actually might explain it, she definitely seems thinner than she did in Better Off Ted. In any case, I'm very much digging the show so far. It still feels a little weird that I can watch a completely new season in its entirety. Not that I'm complaining mind you.
Although around episode 6
I also hate young George/Lucille. They do a pretty awful job of playing those characters, like Tobias playing George in Scandalmakers was more convincing.
At least a GOB episode can't be bad right?
You are crazy
Crazy.
Also this is pretty great so far, five episodes in, the Michael-focused ones have been my favorite
The character per episode thing pays off like crazy.
I would love to see the board when they were plotting everything, because it's pretty complex.
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maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
I noticed the same thing with that episode and the GOB one, I think it's just bad dubstep.
It's what I did and I haven't really had a problem with it (I didn't even realize this was the day the new season dropped, it was just there in my suggestion thing saying new episodes, like all the other netflix original shows).
I love that decision