By Ditching Arrested Development, Netflix Proves It Can’t Be Trusted

In the mid-2000s, there was one sitcom around which all comedy nerds zealously rallied: Fox’s Arrested Development. By the standards of the time, it wasn’t a hit (though its first season attracted only slightly fewer viewers than Young Sheldon currently does; that’s what thriving looks like these days). But it won the Emmy for best comedy series, which helped propel it through two additional seasons. Audiences who missed the series when it aired got obsessed when they came across it on DVD, and later on streaming platforms. Then, in 2013, Arrested Development became the first cult hit comedy to find… Read Full Article