Arrested Development: Season Three

[skryche]

Last night was the season premiere. It made me laugh so much more than any other show on TV these days. (For example, we also watched How I Met Your Mother, which was as “sitcommy” as anything else out there.)

After it was over, I actually felt sad.

Sad in the same way I feel sad when we've order pizza from Posto and there's none left. I miss it

Comments

[prajmetal]

I haven't watched any episode of Arrested Development, and I am totally intimidated to start now, at season 3.

[skryche]

Netflix the first season. You will not regret it.

[skryche]

Hey, have you checked out Kitchen Confidential? skippykawakami pointed out (below) a cast member you might find interesting.

Yes, watch "Arrested Development"

[anonymous]

You should definitely watch "Arrested Development." Sure, you might be bewildered and confused for the first couple of episodes, but it's like a soap opera -- albeit a very funny soap opera -- and you'll intuitively get up to speed.

Andrew @ bloggedy blog

[skippykawakami]

Yeah, they're at the top of their game. The entire next day I was thinking about "Taste my tears, Michael!", "they said he was some sort of scientist", "I nearly had Pop-Pop in Reno" "So did I", "Something's come up" and, of course, the whole Volvo gag.

I agree with you about "How I Met My Baby's Mama", it was pretty good for a CBS sitcom, but that's intentionally faint praise. I'd heard good things, and was rooting for it because of a loyalty to former "Buffy" cast members (which has also caused me to check out "Bones" and "Kitchen Confidential" already), but it's "Friends Lite".

[skryche]

“Eh... too boxy.”

I watched HIMYM for Jason Segel (from Undeclared and Freaks and Geeks) and Neil Patrick Harris. They were... as good as their writing allowed. Allison Hannigan's character was shockingly similar to her American Pie one. Shockingly!

[skippykawakami]

Yeah, but "So you chickened out like a little bitch, didn't you?" still made me laugh. I think the cast in general was much better than the writing.

Also, they miss big points for making pirate jokes without referencing "Talk LIke a Pirate Day".

If you find yourself wavering from HIMYM in the future, check out Ktchen Confidential. I believe it too has a Freak and/or Geek, as well as a member of the Scooby Gang (a.k.a., Buffy alum), which is why the clever TV schedulers put the two shows opposite each other. I liked it more than HIMYM, and you don't have to change channels after AD (though, for the record, both Fox shows got squashed in the ratings: Fifth place for the hour, behind "7th Heaven" on the WB! WTF?)

[skryche]

Oh, shit! It's Sam Weir! All grown up!

I'm lukewarm to trying KC, particularly since I couldn't stand the "we are macho and cool pirates!" attitude that the book had. But Sam Weir... that's a pull. Leah will freak when I point him out.

Also: Arrested Development is still getting poor ratings? How can this be? Does this signify something deeply wrong with the American populace?.

[skippykawakami]

Yeah... can you believe it? What the hell do they have to do to get people to watch? During the Emmy's on Sunday, when Mitch Hurwitz was accepting the award for Best Writing, he said "I'd be remiss in pointing out that the academy has now twice rewarded us for a show you people refuse to watch!" and then asked people to watch the premiere the next night saying "You can get back to CBS in time for Two and a Half Men", which inexplicably is a higher rated show.

The real thing that sucks is that if AD was exactly the same but on HBO, it would be a huge hit.

Anyhow, I didn't read KC so I don't know how it compares, but the show picks up after he's been through rehab, and they've changed his name to have more artistic freedom. It's certainly no AD, of course.

[skryche]

The real thing that sucks is that if AD was exactly the same but on HBO, it would be a huge hit.

Agh. That hadn't occurred to me but is so clearly true.