Arrested Development: Gone Way To Soon
June 19, 2011 Posted by
Long after Arrested Development had been cancelled, my boyfriend insisted upon me watching it. Before this I had only seen one episode and even though it was out-of-context for me I enjoyed what I saw. However, at the time I was interested in many other activities and found little time to pursue the show any further.
Years later my boyfriend asked me if I had ever seen the show and his flabbergasted response to my “No, I haven’t” prompted us to beginning watching the series immediately.
It felt solid and real, without sacrificing its strong wit and balance-of-action to a false “realism.” They brilliantly worked with a video technique seldom seen in American television, supplementing video of the speaking characters with video of what they are describing or alluding to (such as Lucille Bluth quickly spraying, and seemingly without fear or concern, a street vendor approaching her car).
It is a shame when a high-quality television show is cancelled abruptly without a conclusion to the story. Perhaps a movie with surface one day to finish the job, and this might be the right path for the show (Serenity). Or, perhaps it will be picked-up by another channel, as Futurama had.