Afterward, I sat down with Jeffrey Tambor, who plays real estate mogul and felon George Bluth.
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Like any born leader, Michael Bluth serves as a great example of the modern day businessman.
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Portia de Rossi, aka Lindsay Bluth, admits to being a victim of binge-watching herself.
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"I like land and I like my privacy, " says Mr. Bluth, a real-estate developer and entrepreneur.
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Mr. Bluth has moved to a 20, 000-square-foot home on 4 acres on the east shore of Lake Tahoe.
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The first three seasons, which followed the outlandish antics of the dysfunctional Bluth family, was on Fox from 2003 to 2006.
"It was a helluva buy, " says Mr. Bluth of the recent deal.
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The seller was Chuck Bluth, the former owner of the Cal Neva Resort, Spa and Casino, who built the home in 1997.
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It has been a long seven years since "Arrested Development" was on Fox, but the Bluth family's revival on Netflix is almost upon us.
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They said they reveled at the chance to jump back into the shoes of their Bluth personae, and Jessica Walter had no trouble slipping into boozy matriarch Lucille.
To make the most of the limited time scheduled with the entire cast at once, each episode of the new installment focuses on a different member of the Bluth family.
The pilot opens with the Bluth family celebrating who will become the next CEO of the Bluth Company, a real estate company that specializes in mini-mansions, founded by George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), the family patriarch.
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Michael is the most level-headed and knowledgeable about the family company and it makes perfect sense that he should be handed the position, but George Bluth Sr. gives the spot to Lucille instead and at the worst possible time.
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Rather than carom from character to character, as the series once did, the new episodes focus primarily on a single character, beginning with the ostensibly normal son, and the series' center of gravity, Michael Bluth (played with po-faced conviction by Jason Bateman).
To work around cast availability, as stars like Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, David Cross, Will Arnett and Portia de Rossi have moved on to busy careers, each episode focuses on one member of the Bluth family rather than trying to incorporate the entire cast.
"Arrested Development" had its final broadcast on February 10, 2006 and concerned Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) and his eccentric family comprised of his son George Michael (Michael Cera), his father George Bluth Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor), his mother Lucille (Jessica Walter), his brothers George Oscar Bluth II (Will Arnett), Buster Bluth (Tony Hale) and sister Lindsay Funke (Portia de Rossi), and Lindsay's husband Tobias (David Cross) and their daughter Maeby (Alia Shawkat).
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