Arrested Development is back to being funny in Season 5, and gets funnier as the season progresses

The A.V. Club

"Tangled is a good place for Arrested Development to be," says Kyle Ryan of the Season 5's first episodes. "That may not seem like the case after season four, whose numerous plots were made additionally confusing by the non-chronological episode order, but season five feels more cohesive, like the Bluths are all mixed up with each other, not on their own tangents. And maybe it’s the placebo effect of having the show’s traditional format back, but season five has the rhythm season four lacked. Season four’s structure, such as it was, required a reset at the beginning of nearly every episode. Season five moves from point to point, building on and riffing off what came before, and Arrested Development feels like its old self again."

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