“Arrested Development” To Be Released All At Once on Netflix

If you’re one of the thousands of “Arrested Development” fans who caught up with the show by watching entire seasons straight through, you’ll be able to do the same thing when the new season hits Netflix later this year!

Show creator Mitch Hurwitz and Netflix Chief Tad Sarandos have confirmed that all ten episodes of the fourth season will premiere at once on the streaming service.

But that’s not all!  Hurwitz revealed that while the original idea was to have each episode focus on a specific character, it “is now kind of evolving into becoming more like the old show again.” He elaborates:

“There’s going to be some mystery sprinkled throughout this [but] instead of watching one a week and try to get ahead of it, the hope is [fans] will watch them all together and then go back and look for clues and connections…We’d also like to use the technology to provide additional material, where you might be able to access another part of the story.”

Hurwitz also left open the option of a season five or six in the future, saying “We would love this to be the first first of many visits.”

Oh hell yes to that.

I’m not sure how this idea would really work out for Netflix financially…people could register for the streaming service for a month, and then discontinue it.  But hey, they don’t seem too worried, and we still get our Bluth family back on our screens.  I’ll take it.