Like the Bluth family itself, Arrested Development has proven surprisingly hard to destroy over the years. For a while there, it kind of looked like no number of huge mistakes—Fox canceling it, massive delays between seasons, that god-awful and embarrassing New York Times interview—could stop the series from popping…
Earlier this month, Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz addressed the on-set outburst that Jeffrey Tambor had at Jessica Walter while filming the show’s new season—an incident that turned a New York Times interview with the cast into a complete disaster—with Hurwitz explaining that he didn’t realize how awful…
One of the clearest and most unavoidable takeaways from the infamous New York Times interview with the cast of Arrested Development is that the male stars in attendance—specifically Tony Hale, Jason Bateman, and David Cross—talked way too much. The three of them essentially stumbled over each other in an attempt to…
During the filming of Arrested Development’s new season, Jeffrey Tambor had some sort of furious outburst on set that was directed at his on-screen wife Jessica Walter, an incident that the cast largely brushed under the rug until it rose back to the surface during a New York Times interview. In that chat, the show’s…
“Premature Independence” isn’t technically a season finale, but it has the right amount of spectacle and finality to serve as a send-off for the time being. The final 15 minutes or so revolve around multiple set pieces within a set piece, the third annual 2nd of July 4th of July parade, presented essentially in real…
The bleep is a trusted tool in Arrested Development’s belt, one whose applications have evolved with the show’s transition to Netflix. It’s harder to predict what will and won’t get bleeped in season five: Broadcast standards and practices still seem to generally apply, like when Barry complains that he has the “worst…
Now that’s more like it.
Back when the only way to watch Arrested Development on Netflix was to get DVDs of the first three seasons in the mail, talk of a Bluth family reunion usually circled back to a movie. Ron Howard teased the concept at the end of “Development Arrested”; from the time the show left the air until the moment season four…
Two pieces of vintage Arrested Development dialogue came to mind while I was watching “An Old Start.” Well, that’s not exactly true, because a ton of lines from the old days drift through my head during every new episode of Arrested Development, thanks to the show’s ever-thickening web of callbacks and allusions. But…
Tony Hale’s Buster is Arrested Development’s purest Bluth, even if his doofy facade belies a dark, twisted core that’s been inexorably molded by a bizarre, codependent relationship his mother, Lucille. It isn’t too often that Buster’s darkness is allowed to emerge, and, in a new interview with IMDB, Hale makes it…
It doesn’t take very long for Arrested Development to answer all of the questions raised by “Self-Deportation.” What’s brought everyone back together? Lindsay’s running for congress, taking over for the indisposed Herbert Love. Why were they in Lucille II’s penthouse? Because they’re making campaign promos, and the…
After a downright disastrous run-up, Arrested Development’s fifth season is now available on Netflix. If you weren’t turned off by that now-infamous New York Times interview or that ho-hum fourth season, you’re likely going to want to celebrate this batch of episodes, and what better way than with some frozen bananas?…
The Bluth family is not renowned for its strong memories. Even when they’re not intentionally trying to scrub something from their brain pans, they’re blanking on the name of their kid’s girlfriend or forgetting (multiple times) a surprise party for their mother. It’s a function of their shared narcissism, the…
The last new episode of Arrested Development debuted a little more than five years ago, which isn’t as long as the gap between seasons three and season four (seven years and change there) but is still a significant amount of time. And so “Family Leave” can’t be blamed for indulging in a little catch-up, even if the…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, May 29. All times are Eastern.Â
An instantly infamous New York Times interview with the cast of Arrested Development that ran earlier this week has sparked a conversation about what director Steven Soderbergh has called the “extreme asshole clause” in entertainment—the idea that, just because a person’s abusive behavior on set isn’t sexual in…
Now the story of an interview with the Arrested Development cast, which delved into Jeffrey Tambor’s admitted verbal abuse of co-star Jessica Walter, and the one actor who had to dismiss her concerns every chance he got in this 10-minute conversation. It’s apology time.
In what’s amounting to a cold war between Amazon and Netflix, with the trans community caught in the middle, Deadline reports that Jeffrey Tambor—who was fired from Transparent in February amid charges of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior from two trans women who work on the show, and was subsequently …
Five years since Arrested Development made its improbable comeback—thanks to Netflix’s then-nascent foray into original content—the verdict on its fourth season, its mere existence miraculous, is a shrug. When Netflix announced Arrested Development as part of its first slate of original content back in 2011—which…
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…
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