After all, even creator Mitchell Hurwitz acknowledged the show’s fourth season issues.

(Most of Polygon’s team are avid Arrested Development fans - some of whom even secured second place in a highly contested trivia tournament - but we haven’t watched the remixed season in its entirety just yet.)īut the recut has gotta be better than the first iteration of the season, right? After all, Washington Post called the original cut of the fourth season “a chore to watch” in 2013, adding that it was “staggering in its ambition, surgical in its execution and diabolical in its conclusion.”įortunately (or perhaps unfortunately depending on how masochistic your viewing practices are), you won’t have to watch that original version ever again. This may be beneficial for people who slogged through the show’s choppy fourth season in 2013 and want to forget it by optimistically tuning into the recut episodes, but we can’t say for certain. Netflix is clearly making it more difficult for people to watch the original fourth season, seemingly hoping that subscribers tune into the remixed edition. Polygon Arrested Development’s original fourth season is hidden. Netflix subscribers have to go to the show’s official page and click on the “trailers and more” section to find the original cut of the fourth season. If subscribers click play on Arrested Development’s fourth season from the platform’s main landing page, the remixed version will automatically start. The remixed version re-edits the original 15, single character-focused episodes from 2013’s fourth season and turns them into 22 chronological episodes, each including a majority of the cast. Netflix debuted Arrested Development’s newly remixed fourth season today, and although it isn’t the only available option for Netflix subscribers, it is by far the most visible one. Arrested Development’s original fourth season is still streaming on Netflix, but it takes a little bit of detective work to find it.

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