Arrested Development, season 5

[osprey_archer]

I’ve been watching season 5 of Arrested Development - again, as with Derry Girls, because I’m a sucker for shows with short seasons and short running times - but in the case of Arrested Development, it’s not paying off for me. The humor seems labored; we get journalistic snippets about each character, never enough to get invested in any of their story lines, and because the family has scattered to the four winds they don’t have the opportunity to spark off each other - and the family interactions were always one of the best things about the show.

However, as of the end of episode three, most of the gang is back together, so hopefully things will improve from here?

Although personally I wish that Tobias was the one stuck in jail and Buster was back with the family. Lindsay is right: Tobias should just go away already.

It’s been so long since I’ve watched Arrested Development (why did Netflix let five years go by in between seasons 4 and 5?) and this season is so lackluster that I’ve started to wonder if maybe Arrested Development was always awful and my past self just had terrible taste.

Comments

[troisoiseaux]

If you like short shows, I'd recommend Fallet: it's a Swedish-British dark comedy about an overanxious British detective and overimpulsive Swedish detective teaming up to solve a murder, and it's only got one season of about eight 30-minute episodes.

[osprey_archer]

I'll keep this rec in mind if I ever come across it.

[troisoiseaux]

Oops, should have clarified: it's available on Netflix.

[osprey_archer]

Well, that does put a rather different complexion on things.