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The return of the return of 'Arrested Development,' still funny after all these years

Five years after the return of "Arrested Development" as a Netflix series, which came seven years after it was canceled as a Fox sitcom, "Arrested Development" returns again Tuesday to follow the misadventures of the Bluths of Newport Beach. The show now appears with the frequency of new U2 albums.

The new season - its fifth since 2003, again on Netflix - was negatively heralded by a much-discussed group interview in the New York Times, in which male cast members, led by Jason Bateman, seemed to defend, even to mansplain, the behavior of Jeffrey Tambor,

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