It’s the story of a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. And now, it’s back on Netflix!
After a seven-year hiatus, the hit TV show Arrested Development is back with a fourth season and hooking people right back into watching it. The show revolves around the Bluth family, who after their family real estate business is taken down is found broke and desperate. Michael Bluth, a single father with a 13-year-old son, named George-Michael, is forced to keep his chaotic and large family together after his father is arrested for shifty accounting practices and fraud at the family-owned company and the Bluth family assets are frozen, making each member of the once luxurious family panic. Michael’s snotty cocktail-mother, Lucille, finds herself living alone in a penthouse without the money to maintain it, while Michael’s brothers, GOB and Buster, and his sister Lindsay with her husband Tobias and her daughter Maeby (told you it was a large family) also find themselves having to adjust their lifestyles to fit their new, lower financial status.
The fourth season has been a huge success on Netflix, which took the show under its wing and brought it back to life. The new season is packed with shenannigans, cameos, and for some reason, a very angry ostrich. The show is very hard to understand if it is not watched in chronological order, and this season surely proves that.
Occasionally, the show will have a throwback to previous episodes, even in the first season. It’s full of moments that will make you say “OHHHH! I get it now” after they reveal something that has been untouched from an earlier episode or season. Arrested Development is definitely a show to get behind and follow. If you already watched all 15 episodes of the new seasons, don’t worry – rumours of a new season (and possibly a movie) are floating around.
I guess Netflix realize that there really is “always money in the banana stand.”