Finally finished Arrested Development Season 4. (Finally? It's been a week.)

Overall, I liked it. It has some pacing problems towards the middle, but like I said a couple posts ago, knowing exactly how much time they had to fill and no limits in writing means that it's more of a 8 hour movie than 15 episodes of a TV show. I think they might have turned out better had they kept themselves to a 22-23 minute timeframe, as some episodes are pushing 40.

What I appreciate most is that they didn't just keep running the old running gags. Each one got a shout out, but the running gags in this season were new. It takes some guts to pretty much ignore the gags people have been quoting incessantly for the last 5 years, which honestly have gotten a little tired.

As for it being the lead up to a movie, I still don't see how a movie of Arrested Development would work. There is just too much ground to cover. It would take 2 hours for someone to have never seen AD to get caught up, then the movie would be over. If they're still doing that idea, I guess they have something in mind.