Arrested Development

Arrested Development (TV Series 2003–2006)

Creator: Mitchell Hurwitz

Stars:Jason Bateman, Michael Cera and Portia de Rossi

Storyline :

Michael Bluth, a widower with a 13-year-old son, named George-Michael, is forced to keep his large and dysfunctional family together after his father is arrested for shifty accounting practices at the family-owned conglomerate and the Bluth family assets are frozen, making each member of the eccentric family panic. Michael's snobbish mother, Lucille, finds herself living alone in a penthouse without the financial means to maintain it, while Michael's two brothers, GOB and Buster, and his sister Lindsay with her husband Tobias and her daughter Maeby also find themselves having to recreate their lifestyles to fit their new financial status. Written by Matt Patay  

GENRE : Drama

Arrested Development genre is exactly comedy.

comedy, as popular meaning is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film and stand-up comedy.

But in my opinion, Arrested Development is kind of drama and very humorous because this sitcom shows family love.

first season, George Bluth company and his son Michael serves as manager of company and, after being passed over for promotion, decides to leave both the company and his family. he worked hard with an expectation of better tomorrow. but he didn't become C.E.O of the Bluth company. he's mother Lucille become C.E.O, and immediately names as the new president her extremely sheltered youngest son Buster, who proves ill-epuipped.

Michael get upset about this situation, so he secures another job with a rival company and plans on leacing his family behind for good.

Ralizing that they need Michael, the family asks him to come back and run the company.

Which Michael scoffs at until he sees how much the family means to his teenaged son George Michael. To keep the family together he come back for family.

Accoding to this sitcom, we know that family is more important then everything. might be, almost people think that Bluth's family is stupid and selfish, except Michael.

Bluth family make very stupid situation and they give lot of fun to ours.

This is comedy sitcom but  we can to see "family love" from Bluth's family so, i think it is drama.

DISCOURSE : Family Company

This story started from Bluth's company(Family company) is going down and Georgo Sr(C.E.O of the Bluth company) is arrested by the securities and exchang commission for defranding investors and gross spending of the company's money for "personal expenses".

Bluth's family also spend lot of company's money for personal expenses.

I think director want to tell viewers that family company's misbehavior.

We can to hear that some family company's C.E.O or someone of family members were arrested for embezzlement of company funds when we watch news.

so we should consider family company's positive point and negative point.

NARRATIVE : Family Love(storge') 

Arrested Development episode shows family love.

Bluth's family are so childish for them age. sometimes they are having an argument about money, stupid conduct or self-respect but they know about that exactly they loved eath other.

Accoding to Arrested Development we know that family is very important and we need to keep the family together.