Yashoda Sampath

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The Show That Ate Its Own Tail: Arrested Development

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Yashoda Sampath The Oncoming Hope

February 18, 2013
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The Show That Ate Its Own Tail: Arrested Development transmedia content forms Awaiting Arrested Development's Return Curator's Note When Fox breathed life into Arrested Development in 2003, no one could have predicted that the struggling show mi ...

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Re: "What Color Was He, Exactly?": Tobias and the Glass Closet

Nella Larsen

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Yashoda Sampath The Oncoming Hope

Sunday, February 24, 2013 — 11:11 pm
I could never have expected anyone to make a plausible link between Passing and Tobias Funke, so well played:). In truth, I do wonder whether the "closet Tobias" story could really play today. It's one of those things that teeters on the ed ...
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Re: The Most Important Thing Is Family

The First Family Mafia

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Yashoda Sampath The Oncoming Hope

Sunday, February 24, 2013 — 11:07 pm
Interesting! Though I've long subscribed to the theory that Arrested Development remakes and parodies everyone's favorite cinematic family: the Corleones. You've got the pragmatic criminal grandfather, the prodigal son Michael, etc. ...