Typically, there is time to engage in conversation with fellow viewers, whether that be at that perpetual cliché of office conversation, the water cooler, or a virtual one on Twitter or Facebook. This doesn’t happen with typical episodic television, where there is time between installments to consider, analyze, and evangelize about the show you’re watching. I previously compared binge-viewing to eating a bag of potato chips, but I also think that there’s an unintended consequence of such behavior: the viewing purge. The to-binge-or-not-to-binge internal conversation may be happening only in social media-obsessed households, where FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) trumps the time commitment necessary to stay ahead of everyone else you know. There’s something to be said for choice, but there’s also something to be said for restraint on the part of the viewer. This strategy falls in line with the other original series rollouts that the streaming platform has launched this year, from House of Cards to the abysmal Hemlock Grove, given the belief that Netflix wants to offer the viewer “choice” as to how it consumes content: will you watch just one episode or will you binge on the entire season, watching anywhere from eight to 13 hours of television in a single day or weekend? All in all, it was one of the Bluth's better parties.If you have an Internet connection, you know Arrested Development returned from the dead on Sunday, with all 15 episodes of the show’s fourth season available on Netflix on the same day. Oh and that old racist woman choked on Buster's thumb. Where's my money? I'll follow you to your cars! And when GOB found out he wasn't going to get tipped. And the gift bags, well, pretty frightening. Go ahead and take yourself a goody bag and get out of here while you can. I threaten people who I don't feel support me. And maybe the Bluths just aren't worth saving, maybe we're not that likable, you know. Well, um, I was going to say that you don't know who my father really is and that what has happened to us is a great injustice, that we were never really given a fair chance. The only thing more terrifying than the escaped lunatic's hook was his twisted call! Oh that's me, your honor, I f***ed my wife.Īnd Maeby impresses some kids at the Promise Land with her one scary campfire story. Judge, maybe you should take a look at this, which was taken in your office just moments ago. Your Honor, we never consummated this marriage. Having finally had sex, GOB can admit that he never consummated his marriage. Oh my god, I'm sorry, I walked into the wrong trailer! On the next Arrested Development, Lindsay finds herself strangely compelled to be with Tobias. Hey, where the f*** are my hard-boiled eggs? Why, Michael? So you can fly away from your feelings? You can keep them bottled up, Michael, but they will come out. I'm gonna build me an airport, put my name on it. It was predicated a lot on secrets and lies. My relationship with Dad was much more-much more complicated than yours. You know? And you haven't really allowed yourself to grieve much at all, Michael. I tried it with Mom's, but I'd just end up smiling and ruining it. I used to use Dad's death to get me going. You know, it's funny-all those years when I pretended to cry. You're really going through something here, huh? That was actually an example of how not so amazing he was. I think I'm gonna invite her to the wake. I just caught him sneaking up to her in the attic and he clearly did so because he thinks I don't approve. I think George-Michael is hiding Ann in the attic.
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