Arrested Development

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Arrested Development

By Michael Idato

How do you explain a comedy that is so funny it makes your sides hurt when you watch it, but is still one of the most spectacular commercial failures in recent memory? Poor programming from Seven has to shoulder some of the blame, but so does the show. Maybe it's the foie gras of television - delicious, but only to people who have the stomach for it.

This show is so razor-sharp, it will make you bleed. Its only real weakness (apart from its lack of success in commercial terms) is that the more you watch, the more you realise the show treads a lot of water and takes its sweet old time advancing the story.

Blind attorney Maggie Lizer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) returns tonight and she's a welcome sight. Louis-Dreyfus, much loved by the Seinfeldegentsia, is fantastic and Lizer's demented relationship with the show's everyman hero Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) is a joy to watch. And as one relationship struggles to bloom, another struggles to die: George-Michael (Michael Cera) is trying to end his relationship with Ann (Mae Whitman).

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