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Basic Facts:

Episodes: 22
Runtime: 22 min.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Premiered: 2003

Format:

Series

Genres:

Comedy

Created By:

Mitchell Hurwitz

Actors:

Alia Shawkat, David Cross, Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Michael Cera, Portia de Rossi, Tony Hale, Will Arnett

Made In:

USA

Premiered at:

FOX

Despite often referred as a sit­com series, Arrested Devel­op­ment is not sit­com. This is one of the best com­edy series ever cre­ated on US tele­vi­sions, even if it was a short lived with only 3 sea­sons, and poten­tially a movie that is now reported in devel­op­ment, and announced for the next year. Despite the qual­ity, series proved to be com­pli­cated and most main char­ac­ters were not like-​able so it had only mod­er­ate rat­ings dur­ing orig­i­nal run.

Arrested Devel­op­ment is cre­ated my Mitchell Hur­witz, based on orig­i­nal idea from Ron Howard, who nar­rated the whole series. And nar­ra­tion is used to drive the story and also explain on many back ref­er­ences and rather com­pli­cated story and many rela­tion­ship between many characters.

Story

Story is about the rich Bluth fam­ily and their com­pany. At the start of the first sea­son, George Bluth got arrested for on the num­ber of charges for fraud and spend­ing com­pany money. His old­est son Michael decides to leave with his son and dis­tance him­self from the fam­ily, but that proves more com­pli­cated than he though at first. Micheal and his son George Michael live in the model home that Bluth com­pany built. And due to the arrest and com­pany money get­ting frozen, Michael’s twin sis­ter Lind­say and her hus­band Tobias and their daugh­ter Maeby are moved in with them.

Char­ac­ters

Arrested Devel­op­ment

This is one wacky fam­ily. Michael (played by Jason Bate­man) is the only one hard work­ing in the fam­ily and tries to teach his son to be good and hard work­ing also. George Michael is mostly clue­less and con­fused boy and Michael Cera is really excel­lent in the role. The rest of the fam­ily is also great, and my favorite is defin­i­tively George Bluth played by Jef­frey Tam­bor. But, one of the prob­lem series had to attract wider audi­ence was the fact that char­ac­ters weren’t like able but that was actu­ally a point of show­ing the dys­func­tional family.

Pro­duc­tion

Series is filmed using con­stantly mov­ing or in the face cam­era, with almost doc­u­men­tary style of film­ing, and that gave the series very orig­i­nal and inter­est­ing look.

Con­clu­sion

Amaz­ing com­edy, intel­li­gent and really funny. It takes some time for the series to grown on view­ers, and it can get com­pli­cated even with nar­ra­tor lead­ing you through the story, but this is the show that you really need to see.