2013 EW The Moment of the Bluth Cover

2013 EW The Moment of the Bluth Cover

Cast Left to Right: Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, David Cross, Alia Shawkat, Portia de Rossi, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter and Tony Hale.

Entertainment Weekly spoke with all nine cast members as well as series creator/executive producer Mitchell Hurwitz about the surprisingly emotional reunion, what to expect from this batch of episodes, and more.

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One month from now, all of your questions will be answered. What dysfunctional disasters have befallen our Bluths since we last saw them in 2006? Did Buster survive that last seal confrontation with his other hand intact? Is the stair car now a hybrid? (Probably not.) And, oh, yes, will the new Arrested Development episodes scratch that seven-year-wait of an itch?

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Mitch Hurwitz on the Season Four Timeline: "This year is about the enduring entanglements of family, they are 10 years older than when we met, so that means emotionally they’re, like, two years older than we met them. Amazing things happen when one goes from being emotionally 12 years old to emotionally being 14 years old."

Will Arnett on the story of Season Four "It’s the story of shame, cunning, thievery, dishonor, backstabbing, deceit, bold-faced lying, one-upmanship, psychological torture, lust, financial ruin, and magic, all supported by a very broad beam of dysfunctional love."

Jason Bateman on the layout of Season Four: "When Mitch started to get his arms around how all the action could happen simultaneously and there was an ability to stop one episode, start another, and have all this crossover and braided plotting, it became clear that he was going to try to accomplish something incredibly ambitious, the kind of escalation that the audience would expect from him."