The show’s first three seasons, broadcast on Fox, attracted dismal ratings, as audiences at first struggled to accept the way the show chicken danced dismissively in the face of convention. After making a massive statement in 2013 reviving Arrested Development, one of their first ever “original” programmes, they appear happy to quietly slip its last episodes online and let a once monolithically praised comedy – lauded ‘the best sitcom on TV” by Entertainment Weekly and one of the greatest shows ever by Time magazine – go out with a whimper as faint as Tobias sobbing in a shower. There’s almost no reference at all to the impending episodes on any of Netflix’s social channels. The cast don’t appear to be doing any press for it. The streaming giant declined to make previews of the new episodes available to UK journalists. When asked if further instalments were likely, David Cross, who plays deluded doctor-turned-actor Tobias Fünke, told the Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast: “I can’t see it happening.” Today’s release of season five part two (the first part arrived last year, to middling reviews) is widely expected to bring the show to a close, for good this time. Eight years and just 31 episodes later, however, the streaming giant looks set to cancel it again. Arrested Developmentreturned in 2013, resurrected by Netflix in a move met with huge excitement by fans of the series that centres on a family so haywire, they make The Simpsons look blissfully sedate. Sign up for our newsletter to get the best of VICE delivered to your inbox daily.Now the story of an eccentric cult sitcom that became the most influential American comedy of the Noughties after it was cancelled, and the one streaming service who had no choice but to bring it back. At least if Solo does end up being terrible, Howard can always just go back and recut the whole thing-since that's apparently totally chill to do now. Still, if this is the direction Ron Howard decided to steer Solo after taking over the directing reins, then the movie might not be the total shitshow that Disney was reportedly worried it might be. The whole thing is hilarious, even though it was basically done already by Nerdist a year ago with pre-existing Arrested Development narration. Walter Weatherman reference in there, because of course. The three-minute video perfectly nails Arrested Development's dry humor, with Howard's narrator roasting Jedis as a "religious cult," dropping a couple well-timed Pete Rose jokes, and calling Boba Fett " Mr. "Go see Solo: A Star Wars Story, only in theaters May 25." "Hey! That would make an interesting movie," Howard cuts in. "You’ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon? It’s the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs," Han Solo tells Luke and Obi-Wan in a scene from A New Hope. "Now, the story of a family that wants to rule the galaxy, and the one son who had no choice but to save it," Howard says as the video introduces the Skywalkers like they're members of the Bluth family.
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