If you ’re a buff ofArrested Development , you ’ll doubtless be celebrate Cinco de Cuatro this Friday . And what better way is there to do that than with a Bluth home binge - watch — only one in which the cult series ’ long - awaited quaternary time of year is slightly better than you recall from the first time around ? Series Divine Mitchell Hurwitz took to the show ’s official Twitter to announce that a recut version of season four ( which hefirst teasedback in 2014 ) will be stream on Netflix start Friday , May 4 .
For many of the brilliant - but - cancel comedy ’s fans , time of year four was a bit of a disappointment , specifically because of its experimental narrative style ( or what Hurwitz calls “ aRashomon - elan of storytelling ” ) , where each sequence only focused on one or two type — not the entire kin — which altered the spirit of Michael ’s “ family first ” mantra .
“ The finish was that by the oddment of the season , a unified write up of cause and effect would come out for the witness — full of surprises about how the Bluths were responsible for for most of the misery they had endure , ” Hurwitz explained . “ In some agency to be an experience for that viewer , perhaps , akin to eating some pledge , then some Baron Verulam — peradventure a chopped tomato followed by some turkey and realizing , ‘ Hey , I think I just had a BLT . ”
Because of the edits , the revamped season — which is officially being calledArrested Development Season 4 Remix : Fateful Consequences — will be comprised of 22 episode versus the original 15 instalment ( though they ’ll be shorter this metre around ) .
Why cut down the redux now ? Well , because it ’s Cinco de Cuatro , of course . But also because it sounds as if time of year five might be arriving sooner than you mean . Though no prescribed date for the all - young season has been announced , Hurwitzdidpromise that it will be “ come back to Netflix soon . Like really soon . Like , if you know when , you would not be incorrect to be believe , ‘ why are we all just hear this now ? ’ ” ( you’re able to read Hurwitz ’s full statement below . )
[ h / tThe Verge ]
