There was an unbeeped fucking in episode 7Why are they censoring the fucks but not the shits? Such a weird thing to do.
Murphybrown is great. Also, him drawing the ire of literally everyone in the room was an interesting moment. Poor guy is an innocent. "Am I the boy?" "I've never heard a man ask that question."
Just started it. What the hell happened to Will Arnett's face? He looks like he's wearing a loose rubber mask of himself? Like, he definitely gained weight but his forehead has this weird fold?
The whole stopping in the middle of the season is weird. Either you give us the whole season, or give an episode or two every week to build hype. This way you just get this weird cut-off, and I'm going to forget everything until the next half drops. Pick a lane, Netflix.
MurphybrownMy first watch he was meh.
On my second watch I thought he was pretty great.
The introduction to his character encapsulates it.
"Did the skit start? I don't have a hook."
i have a feeling he's actually a cop or journalist or something. (murphy brown duhlol). Probably sent in to infiltrate the Bluth Family
and of course it's Tobias that brings him in. This isn't the first time Tobias has been merrily fooled into spying on them.
It was a callback to George Michael realizing that they had a direct feed from the prison.Murphybrown is great. Also, him drawing the ire of literally everyone in the room was an interesting moment. Poor guy is an innocent. "Am I the boy?" "I've never heard a man ask that question."
Pretty sure they worked to get it into Emmy consideration.The current method allows them to inflate the number of new titles coming to netflix this month. But yeah, it's like they're trying to mimic broadcast patterns (Fall Season -> ~Two Month break during the end of the year -> Spring Season) in a completely nonsensical way.
My goodness.If they were interested in the Emmys they'd probably have worked a little harder on the writing.
I feel like there's gonna be some reveal later concerning Michael's wifeI really enjoyed season 4 (more than 3), but season 5 is for me the weakest season so far. Some storylines worked well, like Maebe's. I really enjoyed what we got of GOB, though I suspect a lack of availability of Ben Stiller is partly why we didn't get more of it. The stuff with the beach house didn't work. It's *very* not like Arrested Development to have a reveal like that early on in the season, and then all of a sudden everyone is accidentally blowing the existence of the beach house when we've never caught wind of it before.
And why does the beach house need to exist again? I'm not sure I really understand the purpose it serves. Maybe it'll pay off later. I'm hoping a re-watch increases how I feel about it, as a rewatch of season 3 did, but I'll probably wait until the second half drops.
Just started it. What the hell happened to Will Arnett's face? He looks like he's wearing a loose rubber mask of himself? Like, he definitely gained weight but his forehead has this weird fold?
Finished 5 episodes so far and... This is kind of awful.
I won't get into all my problems until I finish the rest, but like, the first 3 seasons are pretty remarkable in terms of the directing talent (Anthony and Joe Russo, Greg Mottola, Patty Jenkins, Paul Feig, Jay Chandrasekhar, etc). Ever since Troy Miller and Mitchell Hurwitz took over with season 4 though (which at least tried to ape the established style), and now just Troy Miller on season 5, the visual execution is a fucking mess.
The series is now just straight up ugly, and unintentionally cheap looking. Worse, the staging does almost nothing to sell the jokes. It's generic, stationary mid-shots, and the cheeky handheld, cutaway, closeup and zoom shots that made up the visual identity of the previous series are almost completely gone.
I just don't know why they even bothered if this was all they were going to bring to it :/
Same. Lots of back of head shots and very little visual identity and gags. It feels like a shell of its former self, including Season 4.Finished 5 episodes so far and... This is kind of awful.
I won't get into all my problems until I finish the rest, but like, the first 3 seasons are pretty remarkable in terms of the directing talent (Anthony and Joe Russo, Greg Mottola, Patty Jenkins, Paul Feig, Jay Chandrasekhar, etc). Ever since Troy Miller and Mitchell Hurwitz took over with season 4 though (which at least tried to ape the established style), and now just Troy Miller on season 5, the visual execution is a fucking mess.
The series is just straight up ugly and unintentionally cheap looking now. Worse, the staging does almost nothing to sell the jokes. It's generic, stationary mid-shots, and the cheeky handheld, cutaway, closeup and zoom shots that made up the visual identity of the previous seasons are almost completely gone.
I don't know why they even bothered if this was all they were going to bring to it :/
EDIT: I went through the remix of S4 before these episodes released, and it was significantly stronger than this.
The series is just straight up ugly and unintentionally cheap looking now. Worse, the staging does almost nothing to sell the jokes. It's generic, stationary mid-shots, and the cheeky handheld, cutaway, closeup and zoom shots that made up the visual identity of the previous seasons are almost completely gone.
Man, the obvious ways they wrote out most of the Season 4 characters is painful.
I groaned when "Marky" drove up and drove off without ever actually being on camera, and Herbert Love face down in the shadows was unfortunate, too.
I'm legitimately surprised they bothered to bring back DeBrie and they're doubling down on the Rebel Alley storyline?
Weird choices all around.
Oh, and where's Lucille 2's brother? You'd think he'd be in the mix with the overarching missing person/murder mystery storyline.
I thought it was great. I perhaps should have put </Tobias> at the end of my post.Care to elaborate? I find myself agreeing with most of the posts in here, that it's not as funny as it used to be. If you have a different perspective, I'd love to hear it.
Michael and Ron (pretending to) talk to each other at the party was fucking painful to watch. They could have at least make a meta-joke of it or something... but nope, it was played straight and the whole time I was like "really???! We're supposed to believe from that goofy montage that those two guys are in front of each other?"
That's the point.These Lindsay scenes need to stop. What were they thinking with those scenes. They're glaringly distracting.
Oh, good to know this is the last episode with them.That's the point.
Portia de Rossi left the series after episode five.
The season does honestly get better after the Best Family/Lindsey Leaves arc.