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Arrested Development: season five review – offscreen drama mars modest recovery

There are moments in the new series that recall the glory days of the Bluth clan, but a recent interview incident may make it difficult for viewers to stomach

The Bluths are back – if not quite on form then at least a lot closer to it than last time we saw them.

For the uninitiated: the Bluths are the dysfunctional, once-wealthy, morally-then-actually bankrupt family whose adventures were first charted via a chaotic, fragmented mixture of narration, dialogue, handheld camerawork, flashbacks and flashforwards, offbeat, onbeat and unquestionably surreal jokes in three glorious seasons – 2003-06 – of the sitcom Arrested Development. Never normal enough to become a big hitter, the fine work of creator Mitchell Hurwitz, executive producer (and omniscient narrator) Ron Howard and the ensemble cast became a cult hit.

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