By If you watched the fourth season of Arrested Development, chances are you either loved it or hated it on the basis of one major element: the timelines. Each episode of the revived series featured events based on a different character’s perspective, and you were only really rewarded if you watched through to the end—and even more so if you watched the series a second time.
Those intertwined storylines were created out of necessity, since many of the actors couldn’t be in the same place at the same time during filming. But for some viewers, the effect was a bit jarring.
Series creator Mitch Hurwitz has heard the grumblings from those viewers, and has figured out a solution. He announced Tuesday that he’s releasing a “remixed” version of Season Four. “In between season 4 and this upcoming season 5 I had time to take that Rashomon-type story and recut it,” he wrote on Twitter, “shuffling the content from 15 individualised stories into 22 interwoven stories the length of the original series.”
Hurwitz joked that he did it to “make some money” in syndication, but also elaborated that it’s “a comedic experiment to see if new jokes and a new perspective would emerge from a remix that features all the Bluths in every episode, and where the simultaneity of the story plays out chronologically.”
Arrested Development Season 4 Remix: Fateful Consequences comes out on May 4, which, of course, is Cinco de Cuatro. And once you're done watching that, take heart, because Hurwitz promises a Season Five is coming out “very soon.”
Read his full announcement below:
