I just caught a whiff of this articleon Arrested Development over at Seriously Random.

Like lots of smart, funny, innovative television shows, Arrested Development is suffering in the ratings. It probably won’t be back for a third season. And why? That’s what the author of the article is trying to figure out:

Why does it always have to be this way? Why, in a television world where viewers are forever decrying a lack of quality choices (a mostly untrue assumption), do the innovative, risk-taking, aggressively brilliant shows go unwatched?

Oh, that’s easy: The rest of the country has no taste. Forget this notion of red and blue states. That’s not the country we live in. We live in a land mass divided into two groups — those who watch “According to Jim” and those who watch “Arrested Development.” That’s infinitely more frightening than anything politicians could dream up.

Amen, brother. Amen.