Posts by Ana Marie Cox
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Arrested Development Slow-Binge Recap: Season 4, Episode 5: ‘A New Start’
Before we dive into “A New Start,” let’s get some housekeeping out of the way. First: I have apparently been stubbornly mishearing the moniker of George Michael’s privacy software (if that’s what it really is). It is not “FaceBlock,” but rather “FakeBlock.” I still argue that the project fits in with the season’s central theme, […]
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Arrested Development Slow-Binge Recap: Season 4, Episode 4: ‘The B. Team’
“The B. Team” is easily the most self-aware and meta episode thus far, which, four episodes in, doesn’t sound like much. But consider how far inside its own navel Arrested Development travels on a regular basis: This episode’s mixture of nods and winks is almost distracting, a form of postmodern Tourette’s so severe I can’t […]
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Arrested Development Slow-Binge Recap: Season 4, Episode 3: ‘Indian Takers’
Episode 3 is devoted to Lindsay Bluth, or “the one daughter who had no choice but to keep her life together.” I had gathered from online chatter that Portia de Rossi looks, well, different in it, and I can report that this is true: She looks like a whittled-down, melty-Barbie version of Lindsay, something beautiful […]
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Arrested Development Slow-Binge Recap: Season 4, Episode 2: ‘Borderline Personalities’
Did you binge all weekend on the new Arrested Development episodes? To each his own. We’re going to slow it down a little. Two episodes per week, one at a time. It’s what Mitch would want. And so now it’s George Bluth’s story, or, rather: “And now the story of a family whose future was […]
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Arrested Development Recap: A Slow-Binge on Season 4, Episode 1: ‘Flight of the Phoenix’
Did you binge all weekend on the new Arrested Development episodes? To each his own. We’re going to slow it down a little. Two episodes per week, one at a time. It’s what Mitch would want. Great comedy is like an ice cream sundae: There’s delicious, fluffy stuff at the top that anyone would like, […]
