| Tv Club Arrested Development, Season 4 Tobias gets served. By Lowen Liu
Posted Thursday, May 30, 2013, at 01:55 PM ET  In Slate's Arrested Development TV Club, two fans will IM about each episode of Season 4 once they finish watching it. Today, copy editor Lowen Liu and Vault blogger Rebecca Onion recap Episode 5, "A New Start." Lowen Liu: So here's where you tell me you once played Jean Grey in a community repertory production of X-Men. Rebecca Onion: Ha! I wish. I didn't know until I looked it up that the Fantastic Four quickie movie was a real thing. Did you? Liu: No! I should have searched using that thing on the Internet that is always blurred out. But then a lot of the plentiful show-biz jokes this season have gone over my head. I'm having more fun watching the romance between Tobias and DeBrie. If pinching someone's nostrils during a nosebleed isn't love, I don't know what is. Does this bring up the question of whether Tobias is actually gay, or asexual, or just buy-curious? Onion: I don't think that Tobias actually has a sexual attraction for DeBrie. I think he just wants somebody to pound the pavement with—a comrade in dreaming. I thought it was sweet how he stayed by her side in the hospital for her unfortunate -itises and -osises diagnosis. She's like the opposite of Lindsey, who has absolutely no use for Tobias. At least DeBrie needs ... somebody. (Or, she needs money for drugs?) I will be really curious to see if the show does ... To continue reading, click here.
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