Arrested Development (Netflix) TV Show • Page 20

Yeah but Netflix has been doing weird stuff lately. S4 of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is coming out on a Wednesday.

 

haha the narration making fun of the terrible green screening in episode 5

"Althought she was pretty green at screening witnesses."

This is still kind of awkward, there's a ton of recapping things that just happened that is kind of unnecessary. Still enjoying it, just anxious for Michael and George Michael to finally get involved

 

Jesus Christ, the scene where George Michael, P-Hound and Maeby vote out Michael is an underrated gem of the series. Jason Bateman is TV’s greatest straight man

 

I’ve only watched the first two episodes of the remix, but dear god this had to have been a pain in the ass to re-edit.

 

I was thinking the same thing. It’s such a confusing timeline in general with about 10 separate character stories in a span of 4 years.

In some ways the remix makes the story and plot a lot easier to digest, and yet it makes the timeline so confusing because they are still jumping around so much between stories and just using Howard’s narration to glue them together and not necessarily with events that take place simultaneously.

I respect the hell out of Mitchell for doing this cause I imagine it was not easy.

 

My only issue is that i feel 50% of every episode is narration and I don't recall it being that high previously

 

I feel like they had so many options as to which character arcs would be shown in each episode. There definitely wasn’t a crystal clear path to editing it into 20-something episodes.

 

Yes. There is so much narration, recap, exposition. I’m 6 episodes in and really hope it narrows out in this recut, but If not I’d REALLY hope S5 is more focused

 

I'm sure Season 5 will be more focused. Seems like all the cast set aside time to actually shoot another season as opposed to working a week into their schedule when they could which is what lead to the weird character focused episode format of Season 4

 

I don't doubt the remix is good and better than the initial version, but I do have a hard time believing this wouldn't be better if they edited out like, 1/3 of the material? I enjoyed s4 more than not at the time, but there just wasn't 8 hrs of good content.

 

There are so many good jokes tucked into this season! The Fantastic Four storyline works so much better in this format

 

Yeah I agree with this. It feels like there’s just so much more narration than there was before.

 

The whole university section made me hate Michael’s character

 

For whatever reason the recurring “Getaway” song bit is doing nothing for me this go around.

 

I’m only on episode 2 of the remix but it just always amazes me how densely packed with jokes this show is. New stuff to love every time you watch. Lucille saying, “Oh, your one year of law school is going to beat Barry's 3 tries?” killed me.

 

Forgot about the terrifying kissing mouth robot lol

 

This edit really works.

 

Just about done with the season and this is definitely the better cut of the two. I gotta agree with the main complaint being the amount of narration and recap - there's a ton of it, and it seems like it even increases as the season goes on and there's even an addition of a 2-3 minute "Previously on Arrested Development" section in later episodes with no real decrease in the amount of recapping in the actual episode. Though I can't really fault them for this since this format is not how the season was written, episodes often don't really feel like actual "episodes" with an arc, instead just 22 minutes of scenes cut together. Still loving it and really making me impatient for some real new AD.

 

Lol I forgot Terry Crews has literally zero lines of dialogue that aren’t one liners. Lindsey’s conversations with him are gold.

 

The edit is really weird for me to watch. It works in a lot of ways, but in others it feels very off. Idk. I wish I could watch it having not seen the other version

 

Yeah. It's so weird to be like 10 episodes in and realize Michael still 1) has barely been in it 2) hasn't met rebel 3) started trying to get his family to sign up their life rights.

 

Yeah episode 11 is literally 6 minutes of recap and narration before the actual intro.

 

Watching the S4 remix, and I forgot how many cameos are in this. Didn't realize Beck Bennett was in this briefly.

 

So much great stuff I'd forgotten in the first few eps. Gob in episode 2 is phenomenal. His breakdown in the kitchen killed me. Also him being "reminded of past situations in which he'd been successfully aroused."