Heyyy everyone! Welcome to The Daily Something! This is basically my new blog... where every day- I'll be blogging about something. I'm still going to be doing a lot of pop culture blogs... I still want to do movie and tv reviews and I want to even post some personal things and maybe even a few short fiction stories or maybe I'll even do poems or something... it's going to be different... but kind of the same too.
Just in case you're unfamiliar with this story of a wealthy family that lost everything... Michael Bluth is the one son keeping them all together- and this is how everyone is related!
Anyway- for the next few days- I want Need to talk about one of my favorite things ever: Arrested Development! The tv show- not the hip hop group...
So I'm not that critical about the newer seasons of the show. I loved the original cut of the 4th season... not nearly as much as seasons 1-3... but it was still good. I like the newly cut version a lot better but it was never bad! It was just... not the original... and here's why.
The first 3 seasons of Arrested Development were probably the most airtight, solid, funny things ever written. There was AT LEAST one joke per episode that called back to a previous episode of the show- or one that played a big part in a future story. No joke went unused... it all created something really big and spectacular.
I think season 2 had some of the best running gags. The blue handprints on the wall, the "her" jokes, all the nicknames for Anne... that's just not the type of thing you see on other shows. I also think episodes like Pier Pressure and Making a Stand are really different for other tv shows... it was a very elaborate storyline that I tried explaining in this post... but it's quite hard to explain and I'd rather not do that here. They are just really amazing episodes... trust me! The new seasons are more elaborate as a whole instead of having episodes with these elaborate plots. And that makes it good in it's own way... but it definitely isn't the same as the original series.
Here's just a little gif from the episode Pier Pressure... it's a fake arm used to scare the kids so that they could learn a lesson about yelling.
And my other mild critique of the new seasons would be that we might not get as satisfying of an ending as season 3's "Development Arrested." This finale perfectly mirrored the original series and it was just a really nice ending. If they had made a movie shortly after that I think it would have maybe been a little better... but honestly I'm happier that there are still new episodes of Arrested Development out every once and a while. It seems like a neverending thing... and I know it will probably end soon and I should accept that... but right now I'm just happy it's back- happy that there are new episodes and just kind of accepting it as it is. Also I'm happy all these talented actors got some recognition. Alia Shawkat I have seen in a lot of things recently and I think she's the funniest she's ever been in Season 5... so I'm happy about that.
Also... I know about the Arrested Development interview... I was upset about that- I understand why people aren't watching it... and I hope that they give the women on the show a bigger roles not just because of this... but also because Jessica Walter is ALWAYS flawless and Alia Shawkat was particularly funny this season... so yeah. That's just all that I'm going to say about that now... and that is it!
Byeee!
-Shannon
Just in case you're unfamiliar with this story of a wealthy family that lost everything... Michael Bluth is the one son keeping them all together- and this is how everyone is related!
So I'm not that critical about the newer seasons of the show. I loved the original cut of the 4th season... not nearly as much as seasons 1-3... but it was still good. I like the newly cut version a lot better but it was never bad! It was just... not the original... and here's why.
The first 3 seasons of Arrested Development were probably the most airtight, solid, funny things ever written. There was AT LEAST one joke per episode that called back to a previous episode of the show- or one that played a big part in a future story. No joke went unused... it all created something really big and spectacular.
Here's just a little gif from the episode Pier Pressure... it's a fake arm used to scare the kids so that they could learn a lesson about yelling. And my other mild critique of the new seasons would be that we might not get as satisfying of an ending as season 3's "Development Arrested." This finale perfectly mirrored the original series and it was just a really nice ending. If they had made a movie shortly after that I think it would have maybe been a little better... but honestly I'm happier that there are still new episodes of Arrested Development out every once and a while. It seems like a neverending thing... and I know it will probably end soon and I should accept that... but right now I'm just happy it's back- happy that there are new episodes and just kind of accepting it as it is. Also I'm happy all these talented actors got some recognition. Alia Shawkat I have seen in a lot of things recently and I think she's the funniest she's ever been in Season 5... so I'm happy about that.
Also... I know about the Arrested Development interview... I was upset about that- I understand why people aren't watching it... and I hope that they give the women on the show a bigger roles not just because of this... but also because Jessica Walter is ALWAYS flawless and Alia Shawkat was particularly funny this season... so yeah. That's just all that I'm going to say about that now... and that is it!
Byeee!
-Shannon
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