May I also say, Todd, that you are getting better and better as a reviewer.
May I also say, Todd, that you are getting better and better as a reviewer.
From me, the Season gets generous B-.
Agreed.
Your track list is shit and you're dull. I'm so sorry.
Please remove the 'apparently'. It makes you sound wishy-washy.
I thought that was one of the most jarring and nasty elements in a season that, compared to the previous seasons, was nasty and jarring. I am not one of those who think Season 4 is by any means a triumph.
I spend the weekend watching the sorry mess that was the 4th Season of Arrested Development.I have rarely been looking forward to something so much only to be so disappointed. The new season does contain flashes of its old brilliance but, compared to what came before, it seemed to me to be a busted flush. Too…
This change in tone didn't work for me. Syphilis? Child sex? The methadone-addicted homeless actress? These things *can* be funny, I suppose, but they're not * intrinsically* funny. Hurwitz lost his nerve, I think, and listened to the voices of some of the younger idiots in the Writer's Room who told him 'gross-out'…
If you want to see Tony Hale in something funny this year, watch 'Veep'.
Episode structure is NOT the same as story structure. A clever episode is NOT the same as a clever joke.
No love for: 'Driving Miss Daisy's Hugely Fat Son To The Diabetes Clinic'?
I think there are problems, serious problems, with the new season, and perhaps the most serious problem is that Hurwitz wasn't able to get more of the cast together in each episode. The humour and pace of the old series was the core characters bouncing off each other. Having them interact with the cast of Workaholics…
And Chinese. And astonished.
Well, people can have differing opinions about the same thing, especially movies and TV. It's only after a couple of months that a consensus is established. When 'Apocalypse Now' came out, it was condemned as a shapeless mess; when The Phantom Menace was first released, everyone said how amazing it was.
That's true. It's his kind of humour. But it's not the kind of humour or style of Tobias.
Oh god those two. It's going to be like a funeral analysed by Burke and Hare.
A lot of people are going to tell you it's only funny when you've seen it three times or more.
Homophobic. Is that like being a nazi these days?
She may be good at what she does but she's from a different world to the first three seasons of AD. Her character, I thought, was jarring and ill-fitting.I can see her in Curb Your Enthusiasm, for example, which drew humour from grindingly awkward situations but not AD where the fun comes from light, speedy interplay…