Perhaps the wittiest television show to ever grace the silver screen, Arrested Development was cancelled by Fox in 2006 in a particularly brutal fashion. Show-runner Mitchell Hurwitz and Co. begged and pleaded. They upped the celebrity cameos. They even threw a bunch of winking jokes to save the show into the script but nothing worked as they were disrespectfully strong-armed off the air with their final four episodes back to back playing against the 2006 Winter Olympic’s opening ceremony.
Although it never garnished much of an audience during it’s original run, DVD sales made the show a cult hit after it’s cancellation. Then along came Netflix and Arrested Development became a bona fide international phenomenon. Everyone and their mother knows the show nowadays. So when rumors starting stirring that Netflix Original Series would resurrect the show for one more season, everyone got a little tingly inside.
Today, you’re sure to get that tingly feeling a-going again with 9 new posters which each tease a different character. Returning to the show is the entirety of the original cast- Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Portia De Rossi, Michael Cera, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jessica Walter and David Cross. In this season though, each will be featured in their own episode; a ‘where-are-they-now’ kind of situation that is expected to lead into a feature film.
Arrested Development will air exclusively on Netflix with all 15 episodes on Monday, May 25.
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