What is Arrested Development about?
The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
Arrested Development (2003)
A wealthy, absurd family loses everything, forcing one son to hilariously hold their darkly-comic world together.
Satirical and absurdist, with dry wit. A comfort watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Netflix.
Arrested Development parents guide
It stays inside its TV-MA, with some innuendo or implied sex and no real violence.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Created byMitchell Hurwitz
StarringJason Bateman, Portia De Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale
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