At the beginning of the month, when the Arrested Development news machine was just coming back online, Netflix confirmed that Jeffrey Tambor would still be appearing on the show despite the sexual harassment allegations that got him fired from Amazon’s Transparent. Today Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz has…
Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz may have gone back and “remixed” the show’s jumbled fourth season into a more digestible structure, but the show’s fifth season—coming on May 29—still won’t be entirely straightforward. According to Entertainment Weekly, the show’s 16-episode fifth season will be split into…
In preparation for the season five premiere of Arrested Development, the Bluths have returned to our computer screens to reassert themselves as America’s favorite dysfunctional family. How will they do this? By being named “Family Of The Year,” of course. How will they guarantee they’ll win the award? By giving it to…
Just a few days after releasing the “remixed” fourth season of the beloved dysfunctional-family sitcom, Netflix has released a trailer for the fifth season of Arrested Development. In this era where narcissism and cluelessness are practically prerequisites for public office, Lindsay Bluth (Portia de Rossi) is running…
Netflix has yet to announce a premiere date for the fifth season of Arrested Development, but it has confirmed this much: When the new episodes debut, Jeffrey Tambor will be a part of them.
Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars Story will be in theaters this month, which means Disney and Lucasfilm have Howard on the hook to do a whole bunch of promotional work for the film. Thankfully, that’s good news for fans of both Star Wars and Howard’s most iconic TV role (aside from his other two TV roles that are more…
When Arrested Development made the jump to Netflix for its fourth season in 2013, it introduced a weird and somewhat controversial format that involved dedicating each episode to a single member of the Bluth family. The idea was intended to embrace the show’s new streaming home, where viewers could choose whatever…
There’s been a strong belief—buoyed by trailer footage that all but confirmed it last year—that Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo hid a reference to their sitcom past inside their massive superhero studio blockbuster. (They did something very similar with Captain America: Civil War.) Now, the…
There are many reasons Arrested Development continued to stick around in the cultural zeitgeist after its unceremonious cancellation, but one of them has got to be the fact that people wouldn’t stop quoting every damn line all the damn time. It’s a testament to Mitch Hurwitz’s writing team that nearly every second of…
In 5 To Watch, five writers from The A.V. Club look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored episode. Alternately, they can offer up recommendations inspired by a theme. The reasons for their picks might differ, but they can all agree that each episode is a must-watch. In this…
Something that’s easy to forget when watching TV is that everything in a shot is there for a reason. Like, the fork at a table—someone had to find that fork, to lay it on the table. Afterward, that fork goes in a box, one that sits in a trailer next to other boxes marked “drugs” and “coasters.” As prop master Todd…
There are slim chances of titling a Star Wars movie in a manner that will please all or even most of its many, many fans, but just calling the Han Solo movie Solo is still pretty gobsmacking. That Han Solo’s last name directly implied his raffish, go-it-alone nature was always the type of thing you didn’t want to look…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
By passing the young Han Solo film off to Ron Howard, the Star Wars universe handlers assured viewers of a certain level of competence and joy. Howard’s varied career has involved everything from beloved acting turns like Opie Taylor and Richie Cunningham and well-respected directorial work like Frost/Nixon, Cocoon,…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Netflix only confirmed a fifth season of Arrested Development two weeks ago, but the wait between outings has already afforded fans and even cast members plenty of time to speculate on what the new episodes will offer. Season four mostly left the Bluths to their individual devices and disappointments, while also…
There’s more than money in the banana stand, as Netflix has just green-lit a fifth season of Arrested Development. The new batch of episodes will be released in 2018, and, most importantly, the whole cast will return to play the Bluths, Fünkes, and Pop-Pop. In a statement released earlier today, creator Mitch Hurwitz…
The slow elevator toward Arrested Development season 5 took another vaguely promising lurch upwards today, with Jason Bateman announcing that he’s “officially signed on” for another season of the formerly Fox-based show. Bateman was assumed to be on board for the project—like most of the series’ cast, he’s been a…
Back when it first aired in 2003, Arrested Development’s Bluth family was pretty clearly intended as a satire of the Bush family, what with its privileged doofus of an older son and shady business ties to the Middle East. But the nice thing about making a show about entitled, rich white assholes is that there’ll…
It’s (more) Arrested Development: This week, the rumor mill spit out the news that the long-gestating fifth season would have a significant prequel element. We discuss whether this high-concept move is misguided or a great workaround for conflicting schedules. Watch the full episode of A.V. Club Live here.
