It may just be that the early-aughts nihilism of Arrested Development belongs to a pre-Trump era (or even, arguably, a pre-Obama era). But in the show’s defense, it has always unraveled what it so painstakingly knitted together the comedy’s elasticity is one of its greatest strengths. It may be that this batch of episodes untangles and undermines much of what made the first half of Season 5 interesting-Gob’s ( Will Arnett) sexuality, George Michael’s ( Michael Cera) empire of lies at FakeBlock, and Maeby’s ( Alia Shawkat) turn as a senior citizen named Annette. Last May, I liked that Season 5A made a concerted effort to return to form it eschewed the experiments of Season 4 for the constraints of the network format, one that made space for commercial breaks (though as a Netflix original, it has no ads) and kept itself within a 30-minute window (which, again, it doesn’t need to do anymore).īut watching Season 5B deflated my enthusiasm. Arrested Development, which was once, easily, one of my favorite comedies of all time, has become a reanimated corpse that I’d like to see dead and buried. ![]() ![]() It’s as if the sitcom means to underscore how irrelevant it has become-a sentence that I would have found it impossible to type a few years ago. In a marked commitment to its title, the show is literally frozen in time in the second half of Season 5, which debuts Friday on Netflix-stuck in 2015, and making knowing wisecracks about Hillary Clinton’s sure-thing upcoming presidency. Seasons 4 and 5 take place over the course of just a few months, but it’s been six years for those of us watching at home, and 16 years of Arrested Development altogether the sitcom debuted on Fox in November 2003, two presidents and a couple of wars ago. ![]() Arrested Development Season 5 is expected to premiere on Netflix "real soon," according to creator Mitch Hurwitz.It’s fitting that the bulk of Arrested Development Season 5-a season whose first half dropped last May-is set before the 2016 election. Solo: A Star Wars Story is out in theaters May 25. F" sting and Pete Rose sliding into second base when Leia kisses Luke on the cheek. The video is also a great homage to Arrested Development, complete with the "Mr. And, despite being an official Lucasfilm video, the parody isn't shy about poking fun at Star Wars, such as describing Obi-Wan as promoting a religious cult to Luke. The short video covers a lot of ground, with little asides about Luke lusting after his sister and Obi-Wan lying about knowing R2-D2. Kessel Run confirmed! It remains to be seen whether or not Solo: A Star Wars Story will clear up whether or not a 'parsec' is a unit of time, as Solo implies, or a unit of distance, as it is in our galaxy.Īs in Arrested Development, the narrated format allows for great cutaway jokes and condenses narrative very efficiently. "Go see Solo: A Star Wars Movie, only in theaters May 25." "Hey, that would make an interesting movie," he narrates. Ron Howard, reprising his Arrested Development narrator role, retells Star Wars (I will die before calling it A New Hope), revealing the Skywalker family saga to be just as twisted and incest-prone as the Bluths.Īfter replaying Solo's sales pitch in the Mos Eisley cantina-"You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs"-Howard plumps his own take. Not only does the parody work surprisingly well, but it also as much as confirms something we've long suspected: Solo: A Star Wars Story will depict the Millennium Falcon making the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. ![]() Solo: A Star Wars Story director Ron Howard made an appearance on the latest episode of Lucasfilm's promotional series The Star Wars Show, not just to talk about the new Han Solo movie, but also to narrate the original Star Wars as if it were an episode of Arrested Development.
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