Gallery: Favourite TV shows that are actually reboots (Espresso)Yet Lucille was, arguably, the heart of the show.
Even more so than Bateman’s Michael, the everyman caught in the middle of his awful warring relatives, Lucille held things together.
A parental figure who was always present, consistent and fully in charge. Whenever any of her adult children looked as if they might be edging for the door, she would deploy an arsenal of psychological tactics – bullying, guilt-tripping, reverse psychology, flattery – to keep them in place.
There’s no question that Lucille Bluth is a staggeringly bad parent. But you can’t deny that she knows her children well. She smothers Buster (“He’s become too much of a big shot to brush mother’s hair”).
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