At this point, Arrested Development shouldn’t need any introduction or context. You should already be counting down the days until it arrives. Here’s a sneak peek of season 4 from Netflix.
I hope I don’t end up blueing myself in excitement.
So here’s the good news. Season four of Arrested Development is three weeks away.
But here’s the better news: that means you can take a week to watch each of the seasons before the premiere. That should be plenty of time, considering the third season is a half season. So get to work. If you delay, well, I don’t need to tell you what a delay like that would mean.
Just a quick post to say that three new posters have been released to tease the new season of Arrested Development on Netflix. They are pretty solid. Late May is going to take forever to arrive, I can tell.
UPDATE: The Onion’s AV Club has posted additional posters, bringing the new total up to 9. Enjoy.
Netflix has announced that 15 new episodes of Arrested Development will be released simultaneously at 12:01 am PT in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Latin America, Brazil, and the Nordics. So mark your calendars and request the day off. You know you’ll want to watch them all in one go. Unless you’re a chicken. Caw-ca-caw! Caw-ca-caw!
First, the good news. According to the AV Club, the fourth season of Arrested Development will premiere on Netflix not on an episode-by-episode basis, but all at once. So just like you used to do with your Arrested Development DVDs, you can tear through the entire season in a marathon session, assuming your streaming Netflix connection doesn’t crap out on you. However, the article doesn’t say exactly when the season of Arrested Development will premiere on Netflix.
The bad news is that at the same press conference, no mention was made of an Arrested Development movie. So I know people will be disappointed that they might not get to see Tobias in all his cut-off glory on the big screen, but I’m ok with Arrested Development remaining a TV show. Let Netflix put out a few more seasons instead. Netflix will get my money twice: once for the streaming service and again when I buy the DVDs. Then maybe I can make a guest post on Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog.
As for the strange news, Blastr reports that DHS is developing something called FAST (Future Attribute Screening Technology) which Blastr describes as something out of The Minority Report. According to The Atlantic, “remotely monitor physiological and behavioral cues, like elevated heart rate, eye movement, body temperature, facial patterns, and body language, and analyze these cues algorithmically for statistical aberrance in an attempt to identify people with nefarious intentions.” Right now, FAST is operating at 70% accuracy (using students pretending to be terrorists). So FAST is an inaccurate program built on the assumptions of how terrorists would act while waiting in line at an airport? Fantastic. Hopefully FAST gets dumped before it ever gets put into action. Otherwise, FAST will result in a lot of people being put on no-fly lists because they tried to fly while having an allergy attack or a mild fever.