Now, the story of a TV show's long-awaited revival that turned out to be a complete mess, and the upcoming season that has no choice but to try and make up for it. On Monday, Netflix debuted the first trailer for the upcoming fifth season of Arrested Development—and it looks like the show is really trying to recapture what made it so great in the first place.Monday's trailer promises a "new new beginning" that will bring the Bluths "finally back together," meaning that, yes, Netflix actually managed to get everybody in the same room this time around. The minute-and-a-half long clip is stuffed with callbacks to earlier seasons, from Tobias blue-ing himself to George Michael filming a sequel to that famous lightsaber video, as if to prove to us all that this new season will truly be a return to form.Along with the trailer, Netflix apparently celebrated the new season by taking the Bluth family stair car for a spin through New York City, which seems like a place you're likely to get a few hop-ons.Season five was rumored to be a "murder mystery" centered on the disappearance and/or death of Lucille Austero, but the new trailer doesn't give us much in the way of that. Instead, it focuses on Lindsay's fledgling political campaign, Buster's new Terminator hand, and whatever happened to Maebe's hair. The Bluths are also apparently giving themselves an award for family of the year, because of course.It's hard to tell from the trailer if Hurwitz and Netflix will actually be able to recapture the magic of those first few seasons again, but we won't have to wait long to find out. The new season is set to drop on Netflix on May 29. Until then, you can rewatch the new "remixed" version of season four… or, you know, maybe just skip it.Sign up for our newsletter to get the best of VICE delivered to your inbox daily.Follow VICE on Twitter.
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