6 TV 'Comedies' That Are Ridiculously Depressing

Who said American comedy can't be depressing too?

Arrested Development is a completely ingenious bit of comedy and is by far one of the funniest TV shows ever, but it's a lot sadder than you remember. Once again, the characters are tragic figures but this lot arguably puts characters such as David Brent, Mark and Jeremy, and the Inbetweeners to shame.

The Bluth Family is one of the worst families imaginable. A bunch of spoiled, narcissistic, selfish and obnoxious rich people who treat each other like trash (and you thought your family was dysfunctional) and manipulate each other for their own gain, they are so pathetic you can't help but feel sorry for them in spite of how awful they are.

Every single member of the family is an excellent comedy creation and the cast is uniformly great, so they are undeniably likeable despite all of this. Sadly they are another group of people whose attempts to get ahead in life misfires badly and who can't seem to catch a break. One could argue they deserve it since they're such terrible people, but some of them are far nicer than the others and all of them are easy to root for given how well they're played and written, so watching every little thing fall apart for them is still a depressing experience.

This is a deeply sad look at a dysfunctional, broken rich family who lose everything; a satire of the American Dream perhaps?