Fantastic. Still as excellent as ever. Although, there was a serious lack of annyong. Thoughts, people?

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I have to admit, I'm having a hard time with it. I'm 5 episodes in. I thought the first one was pretty good, but I was very unimpressed with the George Senior and Lindsay episodes. The second Michael one was alright but i thought it had a few too many couple "in-hollywood" jokes which I got but my family didn't understand at all. I wasn't crazy about the Tobias one either but I wasn't really in the mood for AD at the time so that could have been the reason.

I think the two main problems I'm having with this season is:
1) The episodes are too long. The other three seasons had a really fast pace because of the runtime, where one joke would come right after the other. There have been many times in the S4 Episodes I've watched where there was a funny joke or scene that simply went on too long.

2) The lack of Michael as a center. I feel like the brilliance of the family shone whenever they'd be responding to fairly straight-faced Michael. Now that the cast is split up most of the time, Michael can't play the straight man and because of this the side characters are interacting with characters weirder than themselves.

It's still really fun to go back and see these characters, and I'm sure the reasons why the two issues above were issues were because of scheduling conflicts and the fact that Mitchell Hurwitz hadn't written for them in a couple years. I bet Season 5/the movie will likely have more interaction and will maybe be a little shorter so the show can have the pace it once did. if I was to rate Season 4 right now, I'd give it 6/10, but I still have like 10 episodes to watch.

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Glad to see other fans of Arrested Development here. I watched it recently too. One of the problems I had with it was the fact that everything was all out of order, which confused me. Another thing I didn't like was that each character had their own episode, and we'd miss out on some of our favorites, but that's probably just me. It was funny as the first three, and Gob and Tobias were hilarious as usual. I give it 8 out of 10 bananas. Also, there's apparently plans for a movie, which will deal with all the unresolved plot threads from this season.

Yeah, the show is a bit dense and tough but I think you can't judge it until you've seen ALL of it. I see it as a very very long movie. There are so many intricacies and clever tricks that make it really unique. It's not a tv show, it's a netflix show. It's not like regular tv. I love it and every time I watch the new season I love it even more, getting more and more impressed and intrigued (what happened to Lucille 2?)

It's not the same format but it's still the same show.

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I still have yet to watch it. I keep hearing that it's not as good as the first 3 seasons. Plus, I've really grown to despise Michael Cera since the original seasons, so I'm not sure if I can stand watching the scenes with him in it.