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It is disconcerting to return to the world of the Bluths in 2018.
Like many a Bluth strategy, though, it didnt work as planned.
The season was widely panned.
It was uncharacteristically slow.
It siloed each character into their own story, which too often insulated the characters from each others actions.
The remix brings it closer in line with the original three seasons.
Some of that happens, and some of it is successful.
The delights of the original three seasons so often relied on the Bluths feeling inextricably entangled with each other.
But its not enough.
You could comb through13 Reasons Whyand reedit the ending after deciding it was too dangerous for kids.
This is not a TV-specific question, either.
There are many examples of competing versions of novels, and poems, and Shakespeare plays.
This is just TV having access to the same potential instability as everything else.
But that still feels like a big deal!
(… Maybe, but not so much that Id actually want to rewatchRise.)
Do I want someone to go back and cut out the theyre just like us joke fromRoseanne?
And yet, the biggest surprise of theArrested Developmentremix is how little it seems to matter.
Instead, I came away mostly amazed at how much it felt the same.
