Awaiting Arrested Development

I didn't start watching Arrested Development until Netflix announced they were preparing the show for a fourth season, after seven years off the air. Netflix has premiered their original series, House of Cards and Hemlock Grove but this is the first time they've revived an existing show. They don't release an episode a day or week but all episodes in the series at once. So it has the potential to be more like an 8-12 hour movie than a television show. Either way, I find the process fascinating.

Netflix started as tech company and paved its way to the forefront by offering new and old entertainment to their customers. The sheer magnitude of content on Netflix is overwhelming. Now, it's taking the next logical step: cutting out the networks and creating the content themselves. The hype around Arrested Development is really exciting and I've been preparing myself by perusing AD GIF's, Perez's lists, and creative marketing campaigns on BuzzFeed. I'm sure when it premieres on May 26th, fans and first time viewers will flock to their phones, tablets, computers, and Internet TV's to see if Netflix got it right. I bet some will even have a full marathon with all 15 episodes in one sitting. I have no issues if that's your choice, but shouldn't you spread the fun? Just a little?

Here's the trailer for Season Four:

...and if you haven't watched Seasons 1-3, you're in luck; they're already on Netflix.

ALSO... I graduated college since I last blogged. I'll write about that some other time. It's hard to fit four years in one post.

and ode to the family

“There are dreamers and there are realists in this world, you think the dreamers would find the dreamers and the realists would find the realists, but more often than not the opposite is true. See the dreamers need the realists to keep the dreamers from soaring too close to the sun. And the realists? Well without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground.” 

- Cameron (Modern Family)

 

I've been writing this blog all semester for class, so I've been paying a lot of attention to the writing on Modern Family. Yes, it's a comedy. Yes, I've become a bit of a softy. But I love this quote from the Thanksgiving episode. Check out the blog if you, like me, love the Pritchett and Dunphy clans.

whatever happened, happened.

I'm currently in the process of writing an 8-10 page paper for my religion and communication class. It's about the TV show LOST, probably definitely my favorite show of all time. I watched the first episode over Winter Break in 2006. When my mom & dad bought me & my sister the new iPod videos, I downloaded all of season 1 & 2 and watched it in Italy on that tiny screen. From then on, Lost was my obsession. Yeah, I was that person that would go on to lostpedia and wait anxiously for EW's Doc Jensen's analysis of the latest episode. Then the discussions I'd have with Wheatley and the J. Crew the next day were just great. 

Now, I sit here almost a year after the series ended, at a figurative brick wall, trying to write a paper about the Religious Themes in Lost and what it means for modern day spirituality. Lost epitomized the bumper sticker I have on my car that says "we're all connected". It made me laugh, and cry, and think, and learn and feel like an active participate in a genre of passive retention.

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Oh, and also, Jack Shepard aka Matthew Fox is so freakin' cute. 

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So I'm going to finish writing this paper by tomorrow, then study for my Tuesday final and that ladies & gentlemen is the end of sophomore year. My goodness, where did the days go? I'll complete my ode to 2010/2011 when I get back to Marietta on Wednesday and have time to reflect on how it's all gone down.