Arrested Development is something of a seriously rare quality. All of the series regulars are so in tune with their characters, and each other that it seems they were born into their parts;

Michael Cera's George-Michael fumbles nervously around for an excuse to justify his crush on his cousin Maeby (played by the pretty damn awesome Alia Shawkat), while David Cross and Portia de Rossi's portrayal of husband and wife Tobias and Lindsey is the perfect spin on a modern relationship-of-convenience (especially considering how inconvenient it all is).

Cross, and Cera especially, give two of the consistently finest performances in American comedy since Roseanne.

Jason Bateman and Will Arnett bounce off each other in their scenes to a obscenely fun degree, but nothing in comparison to Jessica Walter as sociopathic head case Lucille and Tony Hale as youngest (and cripplingly awkward) son Buster.

You don't even realise some of the stories are going on; they're so… more »

Arrested Development is something of a seriously rare quality. All of the series regulars are so in tune with their characters, and each other that it seems they were born into their parts;

Michael Cera's George-Michael fumbles nervously around for an excuse to justify his crush on his cousin Maeby (played by the pretty damn awesome Alia Shawkat), while David Cross and Portia de Rossi's portrayal of husband and wife Tobias and Lindsey is the perfect spin on a modern relationship-of-convenience (especially considering how inconvenient it all is).

Cross, and Cera especially, give two of the consistently finest performances in American comedy since Roseanne.

Jason Bateman and Will Arnett bounce off each other in their scenes to a obscenely fun degree, but nothing in comparison to Jessica Walter as sociopathic head case Lucille and Tony Hale as youngest (and cripplingly awkward) son Buster.

You don't even realise some of the stories are going on; they're so brilliantly disguised and intermingled within each scene that by the time an episode has finished you've watched a hell of a lot more than you realise.

This is because the script isn't plot heavy - it's character and dialogue heavy instead (given that these two traits are by far the show's strongest) without bogging its audience down in complications.

As well as this, the guest stars in this series are amazing. Especially Liza Minnelli.

This really is great television. If you want something you can keep track on, all the have to do is pay attention to the (excellent) narration by Ron Howard, and if you just want something to chuckle over one-liners to, you'll be hard-pressed to find a show with better dialogue than this.