But when you slap the Bluth name to these people, it automatically makes their faults and their dire situations 100% funnier. A family, broken and divided by petty arguments and a fleeting sense of affluence, has its mother imprisoned, its father slowly becoming a cross-dressing shell of a man, his son essentially stealing his woman and his life away, his younger brother dealing with PTSD and a lost limb from the Army, his older brother a failed magician, his younger sister debasing herself to prostitution to pay a heavy debt, and his brother-in-law a newly registered sex offender. I mean, on paper, it’s just downright depressing. I think the least talked about aspect of this new season of Arrested Development is how sad it is.
