Arrested Development is the well-received sitcom about a dysfunctional family that one brother/son/father, Michael Bluth, attempts to keep on track.

To start, the show had it's moments. There were a handful of parts that were pretty funny. But that's to be expected in a comedy, for it to be funny. So I can't really give it points for that.

The actors are all pretty competent in their roles, and they fit them very well.

One issue that I have is that the show is very unfunny. The attempts at humor are often very clear, but they simply aren't funny. The show tries to cover every kind of humor, from goofy kid's jokes to sexual jokes. This show has it all, and it often gets a little confusing. Sometimes the characters will be cracking jokes about sex or being super dry, and then suddenly do something very childish, all of it for comedy. It threw me off, and just ended up being far too inconsistent.

That leads to one of my biggest problems with the series: the consistency. The show acts like the audience may or may not be watching it in order, so it can get away with including things that didn't happen previously, or taking things out entirely that did happen. And yet, this is a Netflix original series. Why would anyone watch it out of order? It was a dumb choice, and ends up making the show worse instead of making it better or even not affecting the series at all.

And now probably my biggest problem: the repetition. The characters are constantly making the same mistakes, making the same statements that the previous episode proved wouldn't work. And then, what do you know, it doesn't work. Who could have guessed? And it happens over and over, none of the characters ever learn. Now this might be an unfair complaint for a sitcom, but it's on Netflix only, so we're only watching it in order, and there has to be some level of continuity, even in a sitcom.

On top of all that, an episode will often end with a character pulling off a scheme, only to have their opponent anticipate that scheme and scheme against it, only to have the other person anticipate that and plan against it, only to have someone else entirely plan against that, and it just keeps going. This is a sitcom, am I really supposed to think about how all these schemes make sense? I really shouldn't. And in the end, they don't make sense. They don't fall together at all anyway. It's just a desperate attempt at humor.

Overall, despite the lack of quality this show offers, I watched all four seasons for a reason. I enjoyed it. It wasn't bad. For a sitcom, it was far from great, and nothing more than a slightly above average one, saved mainly by the performances. I only recall actually laughing out loud once in the last season, and that seemed to be the case far too often with the rest of the show. One laugh per season. In the end, I wouldn't recommend this show. While I enjoyed it, it's certainly not worth the amount of hours a show like this takes to finish.