A still from ‘Arrested Development: Fateful Consequences’. Created by Mitchell Hurwitz, Arrested Development (now on Netflix) is one of the most brilliant sitcoms of all time, a relentlessly funny show handing out comeuppance to its unscrupulous protagonists and elaborately messing up their already awry lives. Despite critical adulation, Arrested Development couldn’t get the ratings—it is a show that forces the viewer to keep up—and was cancelled in 2006 after three seasons, the fourth season dropping finally on Netflix in 2013, to much champagne and…silence. Titled Arrested Development: Fateful Consequences, this tells the same story—involving the building of a wall between Mexico and America, among other things—in chronological order. Arrested Development works better on repeated viewings, with multiple layers and gags to notice and unpack, with callbacks and self-references that come out of nowhere and demand to be recognized.

Source: Mint May 10, 2018 05:15 UTC