In its season premiere, Arrested Development strains to find a new start
The last new episode of Arrested Development debuted a little more than five years ago, which isn’t as long as the gap between seasons three and season four (seven years and change there) but is still a significant amount of time. And so “Family Leave” can’t be blamed for indulging in a little catch-up, even if the mode of TV distribution the fourth season helped to usher in is implicitly designed to eliminate the need for such things. It’s a full five minutes (plus some awkward sound mixing between Ron Howard’s voiceover and the flashback audio) before season five is really rolling, and even then, we’re still back in time:...
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