Arrested to Arrested Development: 101 - Pilot

"Look what the homosexuals have done to me!"



Our story starts, following the beloved Bluth family as they have quite the dilemma on a boat. Apparently not everyone on board is happy, as the gay protestors one boat down chant that not only are they here and queer but that they wish to be married on the ocean.
 There's not much to be said here that isn't known already. What we're given in this pilot is the essential tease at all the major playors while setting up the show's arresting plot featuring father Bluth behind bars. While we are given just a taste of the character development that will hectically ensue, one cannot fully grasp the Bluth family from the just the pilot alone. But as the pre-bad Michael Cera's George Michael claims, breakfast comes before anything... I mean, family.

Right from the start we know this is going to be a family filled to the brim with dry humor and while its writing may not seem groundbreaking in 2013, the show gives plenty of insight that will give way to many sitcoms that mimic its then fresh, original take on what is best described as awkward; the honest blurbs of what stirs on the tops of the character's minds, no matter how politically incorrect, the dialogue that sounds like it should be a lot funnier and make a lot more sense than it comes off (to which the characters brilliantly acknowledge through mear facial expression), the possible retardation of the character of Buster, so on and so forth. If anything the show is a precursor to what would follow. It would show signs of premature humor that wouldn't be mimicked until the blunder of Dunder Mifflin. To call it "before its time" really isn't enough and to get the full experience of what it really consists of, one really must watch enough to crawl into the minds of these brilliantly twisted characters.

It's a shame the show was canceled so soon, but with a revival a decade after its first family gathering, we really can't complain. The legacy of television shall join Netflix and the Bluth's in a holy matrimony not quite a month from now. Here's to hoping that America's computers don't crash and that the family can pull off great success. If not, it's not like they can arrest a husband and wife for the same crime. *wink*


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