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Jeffrey Tambor: From the Brilliance of Arrested Dev. to the Crap of 20GY

posted 17 years ago by Merkin4pres64
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Anyone who watches this show and has never seen Arrested Development, please watch Arrested Development. You will see Jeffrey Tambor at his prime. I couldn't watch more than a couple episodes this because 20GY pales in comparison to the brilliance AD. It's also hard for me to watch this because I see what Jeffrey Tambor has resorted to after AD.

This is not a 20GY bash. This is an AD promotion.

"You were doing well until everyone died." -Futurama

[–] kearnjr 17 years ago

I don't think this show has been given enough time to develop characters. I don't care what Jeffrey Tambor did in AD or what John Lithgow did in 3rd Rock. These are new characters and this show needed more time to develop.

[–] gemmhere 17 years ago

no kidding I agree...that is the best post of all here. I mean come on...how can anything make it in 3 short weeks. They taped last night and I tell you the audience was dying. The show was fab. It is so sad. The executives were there on the floor. How can they not see the potential this show has. It is astonishing really. I wish (now that Dancing is about over) they would give it a second launch.

[–] mlong2002 17 years ago

Pure shallow crap, I don't need very long to tell if a turd stinks. AD was far more complex, funny and well written. Don't worry though, it is expensive to produce and NBC is cutting budgets, so it will be gone soon enough and replaced by what hillbilly will eat garbage for $500 or Kid Swap or more mind numbing cheap, uncreative advertising vehicles.

[–] SBL84 17 years ago

Shows bring you in with interesting plotlines, interesting characters, and good writing. They keep you with character development and continuation of the things that brought you in. I've seen many shows that I've instantly liked from the first episode because of what they offered. This show didn't even come close.

There's alot more to a show than character development. And if you think that's the reason everyone didn't like it, you're just wrong. The jokes weren't that great to begin with, but with the laugh track that so many people have claimed to be studio audience laughter which I just can't imagine being a possibility, it made it much worse. After I saw the pilot I went back to other sitcoms, some that I see on a fairly regular basis, and was surprised that there even WAS any laughing in some of them.

Maybe it's the fact that they didn't have nearly as much laughing as Twenty Good Years, or maybe it's the fact that the laughing followed things that were actually funny.

In my mind, no level of character development could save this show. It needs good jokes and less laughing at bad jokes/set ups to jokes/things that aren't even jokes.