“Not to belittle what happened,” continues Bateman, leading Walter to say, again, "You’ve never yelled at me like that.” “You’ve never yelled at me,” Walter rebuts. “Which we’ve all done, by the way,” Bateman says. Walter interjects to finish the sentence: “Jessica Walter.” The response to this according to the transcript: You even said at one point you lashed out at -” Deb says to Tambor, “You talked about how you yelled at directors, assistant directors, the 'Transparent' creator Jill Soloway. Here’s one of the most telling section in context. On Wednesday, the New York Times published an article by Sopan Deb featuring a Q&A with members of cast, during which the conversation circled around to the Hollywood Reporter article’s mention of Tambor’s past behavior towards Walter. In that story Tambor also confesses that one of the people to whom he was verbally abusive was Walter. “She told me recently she was afraid of me,” Tambor says of Soloway. Both are transgender women.Ī few weeks ago The Hollywood Reporter ran a profile of Tambor in which he insists on his innocence and is contrite about being verbally abusive on past projects, naming “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway and another executive producer among the targets of his abuse. Tambor’s dismissal from “Transparent" stemmed from sexual harassment allegations made by Van Barnes, Tambor's former assistant, and cast member Trace Lysette. and his twin Oscar.Īs a reminder, Tambor was accused last fall of inappropriate behavior on the set of Amazon’s “Transparent.” He was fired from that series following a multiple season run that earned him several Emmys and Golden Globes, and praise and criticism alike for his portrayal of Maura Pfefferman, a transgender woman and head of the dysfunctional Pfefferman clan. Jeffrey Tambor is back in the fifth season as well, reprising George Bluth Sr. This brings us back to, you know, that weirdness. Most fabulously Jessica Walter (Lucille Bluth) has been slaying it as Archer’s mother on FX’s “Archer” with just her voice.Ī lot of stuff happens in 15 years, as Bateman observed in a recent conversation we’re about to dig into. Jason Bateman, who plays Michael Bluth, is better known as a theatrical comedy A-lister, recently starring in “Game Night.” Michael Cera (George Michael Bluth) keeps busy in the film world too, in addition to popping up in the odd TV cameo, notably last year’s revival of “ Twin Peaks."Īlia Shawkat (Maeby Fünke) has been killing it on TBS’s “Search Party.” David Cross (Tobias Fünke), Will Arnett (Gob), Tony Hale (Buster Bluth), Portia Rossi (Lindsay Bluth Fünke) are all busy with other projects. The average pop culture consumer enjoys the stars of “Arrested Development” together and separately - these days, mostly separately. Hurwitz recently released a re-cut version of the long and narratively wandering fourth season that smooths out the plot, earning praise for doing so but, beyond this, not exactly setting the world aflame. Hurwitz and his fellow executive producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard (who serves as the series' narrator) were not deterred. Who’s up for a fresh round of French farce-style physical humor and new parades of puns? We can’t tell, because Netflix doesn’t release viewership data all we know is that the reaction was underwhelming.Īnyway, who cares? Netflix doesn’t. And no comedy can get away as successfully with recurring gags that reference incest, awkward liaisons and “never nudity.” No comedy has proven as successful in linking the multiple limited perspectives of of profoundly myopic, silly individuals, asking us to laugh at their misinterpretations of events and their disastrous near misses. After all these years there’s still nothing really like it on television. That’s because “Arrested Development” still kind of works. Ostensibly it’s what the audience wants: When Netflix and series creator Mitch Hurwitz announced the fifth season in 2017 the media and fans met the news with febrile elation and zero questioning of its relevance. Revivals are very much in season, I’ll grant you, and that makes this second second coming of “Arrested Development,” coming to Netflix on Tuesday, completely in line with what the rest of the television industry is doing. This series has been in existence for 15 years, and a few of its elaborate in-jokes are still rolling even after all this time, which is either impressive or played out or well, weird. “ Arrested Development” will return to Netflix next Tuesday after a five-year absence that, in itself, was preceded by a seven-year absence following its cancellation on Fox.
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