Arrested Development - Season 1

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Summary: A different type of comedy
Review: I saw the advertisments for the first show. It looked pretty funny about the father who didn't want to get out of jail(was having the time of his life).After seeing the pilot I have been hooked ever since. I love the humor. It's such a relief to see something other than slapstick pie in your face humor.

It's a wonder it's doing as good as it is. Fox has been running specials in it's place so it's hard to get a regular audience. It's humor isn't for everyone, (but then what humor is?).
I received the 1st season on DVD and have watched it over and over. I have never watched a comedy this much. I think the first season was great and the second hasn't been as good but I think it will pick up.
I'm a big Ron Howard fan. I can usually count on his stuff to be what I like. I hope it stays on a long time. I know where I will be every Sunday at 8:30. Do yourself a favor and buy this DVD or at least watch an episode or two.

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Summary: This and 'Curb' are My Two Favorite TV Comedies..
Review: ....Arrested Development is a TV hybrid of Soap with Seinfeld and it's unofficial spinoff Curb Your Enthusiasm. If you find it and could not get with it right away you have to stay with it 'cos the running jokes and characterisations will come back to you with a vengeance: the thing that helps with the humor is the editing. You never are quite sure what's next in line as far as the plot goes, but a few dialog riffs lets you know whats happening. Bateman plays straightman to almost everyone... from his Mother and Dad to his kid George Michael. The series is a sum of all the parts of original comedic performances that is destined to become as important as some of the best sitcoms in the history of TV. Now that all that bombastic talk is through, I think you will enjoy the heck out of this...

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Summary: Best Show On TV!!
Review: Arrested Development is most definetly the best show on Television right now. With all the typical (and unfunny) family sitcoms available, it is such a breath of fresh air to have a smart, creative, and hilariously funny show to watch. Arrested Development is one of those shows that you can watch over and over again and it will still be funny, if not funnier every time. It is obvious that a lot of time is spent to make this show so clever and humorous. All the characters have depth and personality and after you watch a few episodes you feel like you know each and every wacky one of them.

There is so much detail that goes into the dialogue, sets, and music, among other things. Every time I watch an episode I see some new minor detail that makes me laugh out loud. It seems like the show uses a lot of improvisation but there isn't, which really says a great deal about the writing and the acting. That they can make it so smooth and realistic that is doesn't even seem like they are following a script. Terrific ensemble acting, state of the art camera shooting and outlandish story lines are what make this comedy stand above the other comedies on television now! Quality television at it's best!!

I hope this show stays on the air for many, many years to come and more networks will recognize that we need more shows of this caliber on television today. I highly recommend the show and the DVD to watch anytime you want to laugh.

There is a reason why this show won an Emmy for best Comedy it's first season!!!! Buy the DVD and check it out!!


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Summary: Best show since Newsradio.
Review: Blah, blah blah blah blah blah; Blah.
Buy this DVD.
If you dont laugh e-mail me and i will personally pay you back*.
That's all i have to say about that.

*tehMick will not personally pay you back if you dont laugh at this DVD. Instead, he will send you a nasty e-mail explaining why the show is funny and why you're an imbecile with no sense of humour.

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Summary: Overrated Development
Review: I can understand why people rave so much about this show. It's different, it's quirky, it has silly characters and isn't a reality show. But come on?

It is extremely predictable. For instance, the whole hidden money thing and George Michael and his cousin. I could see where the writing was going around every corner. Of course, I laughed a few times (and only a few), but this show pales in comparison to shows like "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The Office". This seems like something that is trying really really really hard to be different and funny but in actuality, it's not. It seems like a copy of the real deal -- like Creed is to Pearl Jam. Believe me, I wanted to like this a lot, but it just doesn't cut it.

The characters are completely unlikable, with the exception of Bateman, and I didn't even care for him that much. Any audience of a show needs to care about the characters, even if the feelings induce spite, anger, sympathy, etc. I felt nothing for these people. The "slow" brother and the magician brother were funny, but I didn't care about what happened to them.

Overall, this show is ok, but nothing that I could get hooked on. Maybe you'll like it, but I would recommend "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "The Office" first.

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Summary: The funniest show on TV
Review: I'm not a big TV watcher and the two episodes of "Arrested Development" I saw on TV left me with mixed impressions. A friend of mine showed me a couple episodes from the beginning of the season on his copy of the DVD's and I had to go and buy it the next day. Since buying these in late October, I've seen every episode and avidly watch the show each week.

This is by far the best show on TV today. The writing is amazingly witty and the free roaming camera shots are great. Each character relates perfectly within the setting they're in. This type of chemistry and hilarious story lines haven't been around since Seinfeld.

The one thing about this series, and this is both good and bad, is the episodes make much more sense when seen in order. The reason I loved the series after I saw it in order was because I understood the little running gags throughout.

I've shown this show to probably a dozen people with the last two months and all have gotten hooked as well.


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Summary: I would give it a gazillion stars!
Review: Just when I had lost all hope with tv shows and sitcoms, amidst the endless sea of crap that is American Idol, Friends, Bachelorette, Joey etc, comes this small, quiet, witty remarkably funny-as-hell show. Though I never really watched this show when it first came out , a friend got this DVD set and made me watch it - i was instantly hooked.. i think the problem why this show isnt doing well in the ratings is because 1) most Americans are too stupid to get the humor and appreciate the wit and 2) it's one of those shows where you need to watch it from the beginning to realize the scope and idiosyncracies of the characters. And for basically under $30 this disc is a steal (that's $10 a disc chokeful of wit!)

It will be shame when this show gets cancelled since rumors have surrounded it for a while because Fox cant seem to promote it properly. i saw more promotion for "Who's Your Daddy" than for this show!



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Summary: Best comedy on TV since Seinfeld
Review: Not enough people watch this show, but it is the best comedy on TV now. I bought the DVD several months ago and am still watching it almost every day because it doesn't get old. Every character adds something funny to the show. The more you watch it the funnier gets because there are jokes that are in reference to other episodes, they are sort of inside jokes. This is an intelligent comedy which is rare on TV now, I highly reccomend it.

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Summary: "No touching!"
Review: This is much better and funnier than I expected from the commercials and opening credits -- which seemed a swirl of designations ("his niece," "his brother," "his brother-in-law," "his mother") for a gang of cheesy, stupid, rich-people stereotypes. That is, in fact, exactly what the characters are but I realized, after the first two or three failed attempts to get into the show, they're pretty damn hilarious.

As in "Curb Your Enthusiasm," coincidence trips over confusion; and no good deed goes unpunished; and you really can see some of the punchlines coming from a mile away -- but it still works for me, mostly because of the show's "Simpson"-esque way of cutting away to little asides and flashbacks. I'd definitely say "AD" is more Simpsonian than Davidian.

I also like how no good joke ever truly goes away -- the stair truck keeps reappearing, George Michael's crush pops up again and again and there's always that prison guard shouting, "No touching!" at just the right moments.

It's good to see Jason Bateman again, too. If you watched the short-lived Bateman-as-junior-con-man sitcom "It's Your Move" growing up, it's a kick to see Bateman as a frazzled dad just trying to do the right thing.

And, despite it's jokey trappings, the show actually does play around with the themes of communication and compromise - information passes from sibling to parents to sibling and often becomes warped during the transition, and there's a price tag dangling from every favor.

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Summary: sophisticated humor
Review: This might be the funniest show on TV right now. My friend introduced me to the show last year, and initially, while I thought the show was funny, I wasn't extremely impressed with it. I kept watching the show, though, and eventually I came to love it.

I received the DVD for Christmas last year, and after watching all of the episodes again, I find the show even funnier. I laughed more times when I watched the episodes again than I did when I saw them for the first time.

It might have taken more than one episode, but I love this show. I also hope that the show finds a bigger audience now because there have always been rumors that FOX will cancel the show. It would be an outrage if they would cancel (in my opinion) the only good comedy show on TV today.

Between all the old, trite, boring sitcoms on TV right now, Arrested Development is genuine comedy.