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Newspaper Article
A Quick End to the Cult Series That Lived Up to Its Name
2006
Overview
For one thing, too much happens. Each week, the script kept adding on -- almost as if the writers had an inside bet to see how far and wide the parody could stretch. The family patriarch, George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), turned out to have a twin brother, Oscar, who was the lover of George's brittle, alcoholic wife, Lucille, who turned out to have a frenemy, also named Lucille (Liza Minnelli), who had an affair with the Bluths' battiest child, Buster. And on and on. Michael (Jason Bateman) is the show's center, the sanest in the bunch, always seeking to put some order in the family chaos. He gets no help from his sister Lindsay (Portia De Rossi) or her husband, Tobias (David Cross), a homely would-be actor who is sexually confusing. In its final episodes, ''Arrested Development'' tries hard to push red-state buttons. Michael's other idiot brother, Gob (Will Arnett), a failed magician who insists on being called an illusionist, travels to Iraq to practice his craft. Recently converted to Christianity, Gob devises a magic act that includes re-enacting biblical miracles. In Baghdad, Gob delights a crowd by conjuring a burning bush. The Iraqis assume it is an effigy of President Bush and riot, and Gob is arrested by American forces as an insurgency sympathizer. WITH: Jason Bateman (Michael Bluth), Jeffrey Tambor (George Bluth Sr.) Portia De Rossi (Lindsay), David Cross (Tobias), Will Arnett (Gob), Tony Hale (Buster) and Jessica Walter (Lucille Bluth); [Justine Bateman] (Nellie Bluth), guest star.
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