10 TV Shows Ruined By One Dumb Decision

5. Arrested Development - Netflix Reviving It

Arrested Development Season 4
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Next time, on Arrested Development: The revival you've been waiting for, as emerging streaming service Netflix makes a big splash by bringing the show back better than ever before.

Narrator: They didn't.

It seemed like such a glorious time to be an Arrested Development fan back in 2013: the cult favourite and critical darling, which was so far ahead of its time in its original run that it was cancelled because audiences clearly weren't ready for it, was back. The cast and crew were returning. This was going to right those wrongs!

Except, of course, the TV landscape had since caught up and the surpassed Arrested Development, and getting the cast together was an impossible task which meant splitting the show up, losing the magic in the process. It then returned again five years later, and still wasn't the same, and this year's effort hardly made a dent in the pop-culture terrain. It's a shadow of its former self, and proof that sometimes, things are better off left dead. Or in other words, they blue it.

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