At first, I was impressed by Arrested Development's ratings here on IMDb, before watching the first images.

The beginning is quite interesting, and you expect something funny and somehow thrilling after the first episode. And as said in another review, it takes at least the 2 first episodes before really being into the show, so let's go... The characters are nice but really "cliché" (and sometimes even painful), the situations are out of purpose and irrelevant most of the time but this is part of the fun and humor in Arrested Development, so the mix is strange, could be awesome (who said legendary ?) but never really succeeds.

And what a loss of time ! It's a status quo all along the first season ; things happen, but most of the time it's disconnected, not related to the plot, and rather confusing sometimes.

Second season is no way better ; it even happens that you come 1 or 2 episodes back because it's so not linked that you feel you missed one or two episodes ! The same for the comedy aspect : it's funny sometimes, but far from what you can expect from a 9.7/10 show here on IMDb. Really far. Most of the jokes are not good, you expect half of them, and I didn't really laugh, even one time, before the very end of the 3rd season. And the show clearly fails here : it's laughing AT people only, and in some pathetic ways sometimes. It's also about situations sometimes, but never really works for the whole episode ; it's just a matter of seconds or minutes.

Finally, it's nice, somehow, but doesn't deserve these ratings, and doesn't deserve 3 entire seasons for the only 20 last good minutes.