So if I had to judge this, I'd say that Netflix's first round of "Arrested Development" was a success. It has largely been fun to go back to these characters and see what happened after it abruptly stopped after its third season. Some characters have had a little more focus than others, but that's fine. I've now finished watching the entire season, and am still trying to piece it all together in my head, but it's not an easy thing to do with this show. However, I really enjoyed this finale and thought it put a nice cap on a very intricate and entertaining season.
George Michael has always been an interesting case for me. I've never really liked him as a person, as I really just thought that he was a little daddy's boy with a weird crush on his cousin. This season, however, was really about him getting away from his dad, yet still trying to keep in contact. Which makes complete sense to me that he'd go for a storyline like that. He needed a little more. However, I'm still not sold on his relationship with Rebel Alley and how that whole thing turned out, as it just seems like he's being a bit too caught up in this weird aggressive sexual circle. Now, that has kinda always been how he was, but they went a little overboard with it here. However, I still think that the relationship being portrayed between him and Michael is an entertaining one and it breaks a lot of norms of a normal father/son relationship. I'm also not really sure how I feel about this being the season finale. I would have thought that they'd do a little more for the finale and actually give us some answers as to where it all begins and ends. I'm still trying to piece it all together and it is a little difficult. However, the structure has been fascinating all the way through, and I'm glad to see that Mitchell Hurwitz hadn't lost the touch that made the original show so special. Excited to see what they did with the fifth season coming up.
"Blockheads" is not a great season finale, but it is a great episode of "Arrested Development" overall, dealing as always with the complex family dynamics. George Michael is interesting and carries himself better here than in the original show, but the choice of making him the focus of the finale still feels a little weird.