Really the old series worked like this as well, the complicated plots are really shaggy dog tales. The stories here are just a lot more compressed, as everything happens to a lot of the characters in one or two episodes. And Tobias being attracted to DeBrie made sense to me: she's his type physically and he thought…

I'm definitely late to the party, but my computer charging cord broke again so I haven't been able to give any lengthy thoughts, though I've got a lot of them. I'm up through episode twelve now, and I think this is one of the most complicated and ambitious seasons of tv I've seen, and one of the more exciting things…

Well it does kind of sound like it's going to be a miracle if it's not a total mess, but I'm sort of holding up hope anyway. It's certainly going to be more interesting than the Captain America or Thor sequels either though.

Honestly I'll watch pretty much anything with Anderson as long as she has a major role (this led to me watching the mediocre BBC production of "Great Expectations" and the extremely odd French movie "Sister" last year). This is mostly just because she has so few major roles. I'm excited to get so much of her this…

Wow, this sounds like a fascinating train wreck already. I have to say I'm looking forward to this more than any of the other pre-Avengers 2 Marvel films, because it sounds like it's going to be really unique and out there, which you can't really say about most superhero films. I hope it works out for the best,…

The show suddenly gets much, much better after episode four, when the stories start to come together more, and the timeline becomes more coherent. There are a lot of inspired gags in episodes five and seven.

How about the fact that he was naked in the first Wolverine movie? That was the only scene to justify that movie's existence.

Renner's wordless cameo in Thor, in which you could barely see his face, was a high point? You wouldn't even know what actor that was if not for the credits.

Yeah what he's saying makes no sense at all, and only really applies to the first season. AD premiered in 2003, not 1990. As he admits there were DVRs, and a ton of shows were starting to get released on DVD. Arrested Development came at just the right time to capitalize on these sorts of things: for instance Lost…

I completely agree. I'll certainly watch the new episodes, but I was perfectly happy with the show's length as it was: it got three seasons, 52 episodes and managed to end in a satisfying manner, which should be plenty for any show. Not to mention that it was already starting to head downhill in the last season: I…

Not to mention that they'd either have to really dumb it down for a larger audience, or anyone who hadn't seen the show would think it was terrible because they wouldn't understand any of the self referential humor. There'd really be no way to win there.

@avclub-d71760750778a95386b703f5c9e474f0:disqus Well admittedly you're not at the point where even the biggest fans would say it really comes together. Every single season starts out really slowly and gradually builds to an exciting climax. I would say the back half of season 1, particularly the last 3 episodes, is…

They just need to go with some more hard hitting questions man. Like "Every show you've created since Arrested Development has been excruciatingly unfunny. How can you promise fans this new season won't be more of the same?"

I imagine they'll do a review of the first episode over the weekend, an overview of all the episodes Monday or Tuesday, and some sort of weekly review at at some point, much like they did with House of Cards.

Seriously, how is 15 new episodes not way more exciting than a movie (which is most likely never gonna happen by the way). I really don't understand why Hurwitz is still so hellbent on this.

I always found the show to be incredibly cynical: often dismissive or even hateful of it's characters. Look at how it treats Buster losing his hand for instance. Any instance of kindness or warmth is immediately undercut. It's part of what makes it so funny, but it starts to feel a bit misanthropic after a while. I…

True, and it's not even like it's coming back as an ongoing show, the new season is a one shot deal.

Should all promotional pictures just crop out Buster's hand? I feel like that would be slightly difficult… besides Netflix is obviously not promoting very heavily for people that haven't seen the show yet.

Eh, only one of those is a top critic. The Jury's still out on that one.

House of Cards is available for preorder now, apparently it's being released on DVD and Bluray next month.