Yes.  I absolutely agree.  This is not a show for binge watching.  Comedy in general yields diminishing returns over time.  And as much as I love AD, I wouldn't even binge watch the original series.  It's a show that already toes a fine line between funny and grating.

And yet, millions of people actually watch hours of this sort of thing for entertainment purposes on Survivor every week, and they have for more seasons than Arrested Development existed.

Who does that Ke$ha lady think she is, Morarji Desai?

I don't want to be the proverbial wet blanket, but doesn't this reboot have all the key ingredients for a total train wreck?  Outsized expectations from a rabid fanbase, a narrative structure that by all accounts including the creator's borders on the incoherent, excessive use of green screens because not all of the…

Ugh, you sound like Clement Greenberg speciously arguing that Morris Louis' paintings are superior to Rembrandt's, because Louis' paintings have no narrative content and allowing narrative content into painting somehow violates the "purity" of the visual experience of paint on canvas by putting the medium of painting…

Yes.  Exactly.  You are exactly right.  Rudolph Valentino's films are clearly superior to every single talkie that ever existed. 

Right, but for Wittgenstein, to imagine that there is a there beyond this here is itself a philosophical mistake.  Wittgenstein's philosophical musings are a kind of therapy to help us grow out of asking nonsensical questions about the nature of language and reality, not an actual presentation of the truth of nature…

If you think about it, there really is no evidence that Neo hasn't experienced some sort of psychotic break and has hallucinated the entirety of the three films.  Let's say that for most of your life you've lived in one particular convincing reality.  Then a few things happen that seem to unhinge that reality a bit. …

I think the warmer filter thing is really more of a pre/post HD thing. 

Yeah.  The Office is the Craig Biggio of television. 

2.  Because this is the Office, and despite the veneer of realism that the documentary format provided, the writers had to give Jim Halpert his fairy tale,happily-ever-after ending.  Jim was always a bro-hipster hybrid.  So of course he has to have a cool-bro job located in the hipster fantasyland of the moment.  I'm…

Yup.  Ah well, the demands of making art within a Capitalist system. 

You see Jim Halpert, you really have had a wonderful life.  And guess what?  Now, you also get to shake the dust of this crummy little town off your feet to pursue your dream of building airfields and skyscrapers a hundred stories high and bridges a mile long.

The axe to the table was preceded by a song-dance number in Jeff's head and was either preceded or followed by a 2001 fantasy sequence that also took place in the character's head (it's been awhile since I've seen it).  Granted, the latter was probably caused by the air-conditioning vents. The point is it's not…

I actually don't think the idea of having Jeff imagine his own version of a darkest timeline, after presumably listening to Abed blather about it at the study table for months, is in itself a terrible idea.  I think that could have been really cool, and some of the jokes tonight showed the potential for a good version…

It was 1.5 times better.  Neither were particularly good.

Yeah, the level-headed protagonist who took an axe to the table.  He never had a psychotic break.  Slap in my face I tell you!

And while I'm at it, the problems with this season weren't apparent in Season 3.  In this season, the laugh to joke ratio fell off.  Episodes were poorly structured.  The show often looked like it was filmed in my basement.  The show, which used to hold most of its sentiment in ironic quotes became gratuitously,…

No, I'm sorry. This is wrong.  If you think that this show started to slip once it became unhinged from "real" reality then you are really not a fan of most of the show.  In what "real" world are students allowed to shoot a school up with paintballs with no serious repercussions?  In what kind of "real" world can you…

We weren't supposed to sympathize with the brother.  He was there to destroy Jeff's illusion that his life necessarily would have been better off if only he had a father figure.