When I heard that Arrested Development would officially return nearly seven years after its cancellation, like a time-abiding Jesus, I was both ecstatic and worried. The experience of AD was short and sweet – a steady crescendo that built upon its jokes episode-after-episode to side-splitting hilarity- but it left off on such a high note that that former glory seems nearly impossible to re-attain.

My only concern with this revival is that they are forced to start from somewhat of a clean slate and will spend some time re-building the carefully laid house-of-jokes that defined the whole program. My gut tells me that Mitch Hurtwitz and Co will, however, just launch right back in, making the show a bit of a sink-or-swim experience. Honestly, I think it has enough of a following and certainly the hilarious history to warrant just picking up where they left off and I think going outside of the regular networks will work in it’s favor.

This newest slew of character posters attempts to clue people into to the fact that the new episodes will be appearing on NetFlix by using some of these character’s classic one-liners.

Arrested Development stars Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Portia De Rossi, Michael Cera, Will Arnett, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jessica Walter and David Crossand will air exclusively on Netflix with all 15 episodes on Monday, May 25.

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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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Netflix Original Series has really stepped up their game quickly. From the victory that was Lilyhammer to the commercial and critical success of House of Cards, the pending release of a much wanted reunion for Arrested Development and the first promising trailer for Eli Roth’s Hemlock Grove, Netflix Original Series seems all for locking down talented show runners. Next on their platter, Sense8 a sci-fi thriller from the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix, Cloud Atlas)

Sense8 comes from the mind of the Wachowski’s and Babylon 5’s J. Michael Straczynski and follows the story about a band of people around the globe who’s minds are inexplicably linked as they are hunted down for unknown reasons. The show is said to embody the message of how technology is both great and devastating. Talking about the project, The Wachowski’s said:

“Several years ago, we had a late night conversation about the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us, and out of that paradox ‘Sense8’ was born.”

Don’t expect Sense8 to come to Netflix anytime soon as they still have to finish up working on Jupiter Ascending.

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As a massive fan of everything to do with Game of Thrones, I really can’t anticipate the third season any more than I already do. My historical obsession with GoT started when the first season of the HBO series released and I fell in love with the story and the characters and after attempting to wait for the next season, was seduced into reading the books, which I tore through like a ravaging White Walker.

Having read all of the massively sized novels, the third book, A Storm of Swords, was my absolute favorite. HBO has made an executive decision that I can stand behind to split George R.R. Martin‘s third tome into two seasons. Since this literary installment is chock full of excitement, it’s certainly a good call that will enable the show runners to really flesh out the character and plot developments instead of charging through them.

The latest trailer features a first look at Mance Rayder, the king of beyond the wall, Beric Dondarrion and his flaming sword and Daenerys’ and new eunuch-laden army, The Unsullied, as well as series’ favorites Tyrion Lannister, Robb Stark, Brann Stark, Kaitlin Stark, John Snow, King Joffrey, Arya Stark, Jorah Mormont, Jaime Lanister, Brienne of Tarth  and, naturally, dragons.

“We’re about to start season four aren’t we? This year. We get scripts pretty early on, much earlier on than in similar series, usually you get perhaps one episode and you just have to trust that what’s going to come in subsequent episodes is going to be as good as the one you’ve got, but in this I think there are six scripts already written, and we will probably be able to see them with more than adequate time to prepare before we start shooting.”

 In my opinion, the sooner this is green lit the better, even if production gets shut down after season 4, which I’m still hoping beyond hope never actually happens, we need to at least see the entirety of a Storm of Swordsthrough. 

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On a side note, does anyone else think this sounds like a creepier version of The Beatles’ “Happiness is a Warm Gun”?

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