We spent a pretty long time anticipating, agonising and counting down excruciating minutes until the precious episodes of Arrested Development Season Four finally dropped, satisfyingly tending to that seven year long itch and bringing the Bluths squarely back to where they belong—on our screens in an elaborate, mind-crushing, frozen banana induced binge. We flung open the curtains that fated day, May 26, hollering towards the heavens: “Today is the day I will download Arrested Development!” It beat every Christmas, combined.
And then it happened, we watched it, and it was all a little anti-climactic when everyone finished watching the season at jagged intervals. Maybe it was the post-juice hangover, or the forget-me-not cycle we were inspired to descend ourselves into, or the deep-rooted sadness at only one Bob Loblaw reference in fifteen episodes (and no chicken dances) that made the ending of season four a little less glamorous than we had imagined.
But a few months on, Arrested Development is still a beloved hallmark of fan’s hearts, and news of an added development to the series will always provoke pure, unadulterated elation. At a Q&A during the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal this week, Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz responded to a question asking about the show’s return with a positive, life-affirming, “definitely.” Hurwitz added, according to Chortle, that “I don’t want to get into a whole negotiation right now… but I’ve got a family to feed.”
Hurwitz threw around ideas about the show’s guaranteed return by saying, “I kinda go back and forth between that and a series. But here’s the most important thing, whatever we do, I want to get the cast all together and not do another anthology thing, and that’s why I keep thinking about kicking off with a special or a three-part show and then going into a series.” Sitting next to Hurwitz was Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos, saying he would be game to take on the series “in any form.” I’m spinning in a theatrically torn love-hate set of emotions that this could mean an Arrested Development graphic novel. Or game. Or mockumentary. Or literally, anything.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Via Chortle.
