Tiffany, whom everybody forgets about, is the Ann (Her?), the teenage girlfriend of George Michael whom the characters routinely forget about. Melania is Starla, the Business Model with a sad and mysterious past (and rabies). Kellyanne Conway is Maggie Lizer, the fast-talking lawyer who lies as brazenly as any true Bluth. Mikes Pence and Huckabee, their famous homophobia combined with an unfortunate habit of speaking in wild double entendre, are both the Tobias. Ivanka is Lindsay, shallow fundraiser host and lukewarm warrior for various causes she doesn’t bother to fully understand. Stephen Miller is, somehow, also Buster Bluth. are the Buster and Gob Bluth-the large adult sons, if you will-of the gang. The president’s offspring Erik and Don Jr. Donald Trump, the physically imposing patriarch of his family, might seem the obvious George Bluth equivalent, but I contend the George Bluth of the whole deal may actually be the recently deceased Roger Ailes, making Donald and his majestic mane of hair George’s twin brother, Oscar. More devoted fans of the show will notice parallels between the characters in Arrested Development and the ones in Trump World. Nothing untoward or strange is occurring in the Trump family, nothing at all. We are still discussing the Bluths, of course. A parent and child dance and pose for photos together in a way that makes viewers very uncomfortable. Unacceptable attraction between members of the same family are explored as plot points. In Bluth world, incest jokes make frequent appearances. The Bluths, like the Trumps, even have their own surprisingly successful politician.Īrrested Development invites the viewer into the creepy insular micro-culture the Bluth family has built around itself. The Bluths, like the Trumps, have been involved in shady land deals with countries that are maybe-not-OK to deal with, legally or ethically. The Bluths have Lindsay’s Bee business, the Trump’s have Ivanka’s tacky QVC jewelry. The Bluths have The Cornballer, The Donald has Trump University. The Bluths, like the Trumps, earned their money as land developers and personal brand shills, slapping their name on everything from housing developments to products that don’t actually work. Arrested Development is so applicable to Trump’s White House that it feels supernatural.
The show’s original run offers catharsis in a world so thick with bullshit that a person can practically feel it blocking one’s pores. Their shameless self-serving was only matched by their dramatic lack of self-awareness.
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Netflix has just announced that it’s greenlit a fifth season of Arrested Development, the cult classic-cum-cultural touchstone that only seems more zeitgeisty as time passes.Ĭreator Mitch Hurwitz conceived Arrested Development as a sitcom shot in the style of a reality TV show depicting the downfall of a wealthy family that had engaged in foibles like tax evasion and “light treason.” Led by a powerful patriarch, the gang of soulless idiots and grifters floundered away from the life with which they’d grown accustomed and into a higher-stakes world way more complicated than any of them had the capacity to manage. But there’s one show that embodies Trumpland unlike any other. He’s a Roman emperor, he’s a cartoon wizard, he’s a real housewife, he’s whatever cartoon character a blogger hated the most as a child. The uncreative have compared Trump to World War II-era Axis leaders, to oligarchs. The unread have compared his administration to plot points in the Harry Potter series. And the one nation that has no choice but to turn to a television show to make sense of it all.ĭonald Trump’s rapid ascent to the Oval Office is so unprecedented that it’s invited comparisons with other pieces of art or history. And now, the story of a wealthy family in way over their head.
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