3. Arrested Development Season 4
Under-appreciated by critics and fans. My second article for this website was about Arrested Development (which you can read
here), and if you continue reading my stuff, Im sure my love for the show will only become more evident. I just read that ADs Mitch Hurwitz and bosses at Netflix have a mutual interest in continuing the series, and Im as giddy as could be, because, unlike many fans of the show, I loved the 4th season. And, unlike many professional critics who wrote about the show, I decided to wait until I watched it from beginning to end (twice) before commenting on it Im looking at you, Mike Hale of The New York Times. I can understand people being turned off by the structure of the new episodes. Yes, some episodes tended to drag on a little bit, and the plot was extremely convoluted. But thats almost exactly what was promised when the new season was announced. We knew that it wouldnt be possible to get the entire cast together to make a show that was similar to the original run on Fox, so the focus on one character every episode was the only way for this story to be told. And, personally, I enjoyed the way that the story played out, and I enjoyed the structure of the episodes so much so that I watched it again about a month later. Im not advocating for AD to have had more Emmy nods like I did with Parks and Rec and New Girl. The part about AD Season 4 that frustrates me is that it has become a punching bag for fans to slate it, because that's the cool thing to do nowadays.