#quitwhileyoureahead

If you're ready for a Summer Netflix binge, you may be interested in Arrested Development, Season 5.

Like the original FOX network series, it's still filmed in the same format, but the tempo of the dialog is so polluted with double entendres, puns, sexual innuendoes of all varieties, political jabs at conservatives, it's a challenge to follow, even for a sophistocated.

Sadly, Ron Howard's iconic narration-voice wasn't enough to compensate for no cohesive storyline.

You may enjoy the on-screen cameos by Ron Howard himself, his entire real-life family (including the late-great Patriarch, Rance Howard who passed away last November), and more inside-Hollywood jokes, grudges and call-backs to old films & folklore than should be allowed in a 30-minute episode.

I take comfort in the fact that I heard a veiled reference that Season 6 won't happen; yes, that was wrenched into the script!

Don't worry about your kids stumbling upon A.D. in your Netflix profile, because they'd need a translator for the vacancy in the convoluted plotline.

So, unless you're interested in an anachronistical game of mental Twister, you may want to say Bon Voyage to the series that started with a family throwing a party for itself on a yacht in Orange County.

Whew, that was a mouthful! 😓