‘Arrested Development’ Creator Pens Thank You Letter to Fans
Written on the heels of the season 4 premiere of the FOX hit show "Arrested Development" coming to Netflix, creator Mitch Hurwitz penned a letter to fans and critics rebuking detractors and thanking everyone for allowing him the chance to "bring these characters to life."
Fox cancelled the show in 2006 and since then its popularity has unexpectedly grown, and a new season commissioned by Netflix for its streaming service debuted at 12:01 Sunday morning.
The full text of the letter is as follows.
"To our friends, fans, supporters, detractors, haters, enemies, and arch enemies,
I'm writing on behalf of everyone who has worked so hard to bring back a show that's very special to us to say thank you for your ardent support of this show with the exception of the haters, detractors, etc.
We are also grateful for another chance to bring these characters to life and could not have dones [sic] so without your consistent effort to "spread the word" about it. Although obviously in the case of the enemies, the words you spread were "don't watch this show!" You know I probably shouldn't have even included them in the salutation - but I'm writing this in ink + making all sorts of mistakes. Did you notice the "s" at the end of the word "done"?
Anyway - it's been our great joy to bring this to you on Netflix where you can access it whenever and however you want.
Except, you know, it's really meant to be watched in order.
And you really should watch them all - because they build and, I'm just saying "eventually." If you can. All 15.
But really this is yours now.
Except for the obvious copyright issues. And you have to subscribe to Netflix.
So it's not completely yours I guess.
I'm not going to write in ink anymore.
I love you,
Mitch Hurwitz
Creator: Arrested Development"
After being posted the note received more than 6,000 likes on Facebook, and was published within the hour.