Since season four of Arrested Development managed to bring in a ton of viewers to Netflix and told a pretty great story (naysayers be damned, they still delivered quality writing and told some wonderful character pieces) Netflix executives and the Mitch Hurwitz are currently working on giving the green light for a fifth Netflix season. Via HuffPo …
“We are in conversations with them to do another,” producer Brian Grazer told Bloomberg TV. “They are interested in doing that.” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings had previously said he’d be interesting in doing more episodes of the cult hit. “If the talent were willing to do more and interested in that, I’m sure we would be willing,” he told CNBC in May. The show’s creator, Mitch Hurwitz, also hinted at Arrested Development‘s future, telling reporters, “I don’t have a timeline yet. If there’s more, I promise you we will put a date out there.”
While I’m definitely hoping that the new season sees a little bit more interaction between the Bluths, I still really enjoyed how the fourth season took the risk of separating the normally co-dependent family members and watching them fail hilariously. It was new, it was different, and although the set-up took some time, the ultimate pay-off of seeing all the stories dovetail together was completely worth it.