Arrested Development's Season 4 remix is such a mess it might as well be called "Ron Howard Audiobook"

Slate

"Mitch Hurwitz tore apart a great season of television simply because viewers didn’t like it," Daniel Schroeder says of the Season 4 remix. "Now we’re stuck with a misshapen garbage heap of comedy remnants." He adds: "The remix suffers from an aggressive amount of narration. It might as well just be a Ron Howard audiobook. To stitch together all these disjointed but intersecting plots Howard must over-narrate every step of the way, constantly reminding the viewer of all the plot threads stuffed into each 22-minute episode. The remix trades delayed gratification for cheap shortcuts to punchlines that fall flat without any substance to support them."