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  3. 10 teases for Arrested Development season 5 (plus a season 4 recap)

10 teases for Arrested Development season 5 (plus a season 4 recap)

By Henry Goldblatt and Dan Snierson May 22, 2018 at 02:28 PM EDT
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Arrested Development: 10 teases for season 5 (plus a season 4 recap for each character)

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After a five-year hiatus, Arrested Development returns to Netflix for season 5 on May 29, but before you try to wrap your head around all the harm that Bluths will undoubtedly do unto themselves and others, you probably should review all the damage that they did back in season 4. Here, we catch you up to speed on each character — and then Arrested creator Mitch Hurwitz drops a clue about what might happen to every Bluth in season 5.

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Lucille Bluth (Jessica Walter)

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Where we left off: She uses a part in Tobias' Fantastic Four musical as a Trojan horse to escape rehab so she can board a boat to flee her legal troubles. At Cinco de Cuatro, she runs into George Sr. and asks him for a divorce.

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Lucille Bluth (Jessica Walter)

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A season 5 hint from Hurwitz: "Lucille is in a new relationship, and it's very unexpected. And she seems guilty in these episodes; she seems like the bad guy to a certain extent. She isn't — she's kind of the force that's keeping the family together."

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Gob Bluth (Will Arnett)

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Where we left off: Ex-fiancée Ann (her?) tricks Gob into sleeping with his magician (sorry, illusionist) rival Tony Wonder (Ben Stiller). Some gay panic ensues.

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Gob Bluth (Will Arnett)

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Hint from Hurwitz: "He is on a bit of power trip, and he's in charge of the company... He's not the ladies' man he thought he was — and he might be in love with Tony Wonder."

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Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman)

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Where we left off: Dating Rebel just like his son, except Michael knows the score while George-Michael doesn't. When George-Michael finds out, he punches his dad. Michael's affection for Rebel doesn't stop him from propositioning Lucille Austero (a.k.a. Lucille 2) so that the Bluth patron will forgive a $700,000 loan.

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Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman)

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Hint from Hurwitz: "Desperate to repair his relationship with his son. There's just more complication to him — certainly more complication in dealing with his son."

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Tobias Fünke (David Cross)

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Where we left off: The analrapist and now-convicted sex offender (hey, he was only trying to see his daughter!) mounts his Fantastic Four musical at Cinco de Cuatro with as much success as you'd expect from an analrapist and now-convicted sex offender.

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Tobias Fünke (David Cross)

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Hint from Hurwitz: "Tobias is desperate, desperate to remain in the Bluth family. And they're done with him... [Also] Tobias has dyed his mustache flesh color to play Michael in this behind-the-scenes family video."

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Buster Bluth (Tony Hale)

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Where we left off: The boy who put the boy in Motherboy confronts Lucille 2 for manipulating him into missing his mother's trial; later, he is arrested for her murder after security footage shows him next to her lifeless(?) body.

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Buster Bluth (Tony Hale)

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Hint from Hurwitz: "Buster is accused of something that he can not help but look guilty for. Buster is constantly incriminating himself."

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Lindsay Bluth (Portia de Rossi)

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Where we left off: Daughter Maeby has been secretly pimping out Lindsay to aspiring congressman Herbert Love (Terry Crews). When Love doesn't show up for a rally — vengeful Buster's robotic hand knocked him out — Lindsay embraces her inner Bluth (even though she was almost a Sitwell) and launches her own conservative congressional campaign.

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Lindsay Bluth (Portia de Rossi)

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Hint from Hurwitz: "She wants to be part of the problem [by running for Congress]. And she is finally ready to search for her real mother."

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George-Michael Bluth (Michael Cera)

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Where we left off: Michael's son has taken a fake name — George Maharis — and created a fake company: Fakeblock, privacy software that promises to scrub all traces of your existence from the internet. (In reality, the app is a mallet hitting a woodblock.) And in one of many Arrested plotlines ripped from Greek mythology, he and his dad are dating the same woman, Rebel Alley (Isla Fisher).

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George-Michael Bluth (Michael Cera)

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Hint from Hurwitz: "George-Michael finds himself being crueler than he wants to be, so he's going to great lengths to try to buy back some of his emancipation. And that's not successful, either."

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Maeby Fünke (Alia Shawkat)

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Where we left off: Maeby, who has repeatedly repeated her senior year of high school, meets Perfecto, who she believes is an undercover cop. Turns out he's 17, and his "badge" was for preventing bullying. In a plot twist involving Andy Richter, Maeby becomes a convicted sex offender, just like her dad.

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Maeby Fünke (Alia Shawkat)

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Hint from Hurwitz: "She's living in an old-age community. She's living as an older person, and realizing that 'Oh, this is what the end of a life is like. I've just been a fraud for so long.'"

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George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor)

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Where we left off: Bad news: The land he planned on selling to the U.S. government in order to build a Mexican border wall is worthless. Worse news: He has the estrogen levels of a "very healthy woman in the throes of her menses." Note: This plot was brought to you by the year 2013, long before Donald Trump's wall or Transparent.

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George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor)

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Hint from Hurwitz: "George Sr. is suicidal. He's really trying not to let on that he's constantly trying to kill himself."

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Lucille 2 (Liza Minnelli)

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Where we left off: Splayed out and bloody on the Bluthmobile's stairs.

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Hint from Hurwitz: "In the first half [of the season] it is a story of, 'Where is she?' And she better get back here, because Buster is the one paying the price for her disappearance."

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Arrested Development season 5 first look

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Looking for more fun, sexy hints about season 5? Click here for a first-look photo gallery.

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    1 of 22 Arrested Development: 10 teases for season 5 (plus a season 4 recap for each character)
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    8 of 22 Tobias Fünke (David Cross)
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    10 of 22 Buster Bluth (Tony Hale)
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    12 of 22 Lindsay Bluth (Portia de Rossi)
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    14 of 22 George-Michael Bluth (Michael Cera)
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