'Arrested Development' Creator Leaves Viewers a Note on Facebook

If you stayed up all night watching season 4 of Arrested Development — released Sunday in its entirety on Netflix at 12:01 AM PT — you might be too bleary-eyed to read this candid note from the show's creator, Mitch Hurwitz.

Written slightly over four hours before the season 4 premiere, Hurwitz admonishes detractors while thanking everyone for giving him the opportunity to "bring these characters to life."

In case you can't read his handwriting on the Arrested Development Facebook page (a graphic of the actual letter is at the bottom of this page), here's the full text of his letter to viewers:

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

Here's the note itself (click for enlargement):

The note's already received more than 6,000 likes on Facebook, and it was published within the hour.

Graphics courtesy Mitch Hurwitz