Running Wilde is the latest show from Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz and (usually) funny actor Will Arnett.

I’ve been enduring each weekly episode with hopes that it’d get better, but sadly, it hasn’t. So I’ve given up.

It’s just … terrible.

It’s not funny.

It’s not clever.

Hell, it isn’t even edited properly – in at least three scenes thus far, I’ve noticed that the characters’ lips don’t match the audio. That’s right – Running Wilde is a network television show in which the editors or voiceover people or whoever is responsible for this sort of thing couldn’t be bothered to make the video match the audio.

I’m not talking about a simple timing or sync-error (which would also be pretty amateurish, but perhaps attributable to a network glitch), I’m saying that the characters’ lips are saying completely different words than the audio feed. I’ve seen better work coming out of high school TV production classes.

Did they have such a low opinion of the viewing public that they thought it wouldn’t matter?

Also of note, they aired last night’s episode out of order. In what should have been the fifth episode, it was obvious within the first minute that this was intended to be the second episode of the show. We almost turned it off, thinking, “Oh, wait, this must be a rerun…”

I don’t understand how the same people responsible for Arrested Development, one of the funniest TV shows of all time, could turn out something as terrible as Running Wilde.

Arnett and co-star Peter Serafinowicz have recently taken to Twitter to plead viewers to watch. There’s even a petition circulating called “Save Running Wilde!”, and people are chiming in with opinions like “If you like Arrested Development you’ll love Running Wilde! Please watch!”

“Waffle Bar!”

“There was syrup?”

I can only think that those people didn’t understand Arrested Development. Or maybe I don’t understand Running Wilde. I dunno. Either way, I probably won’t be watching.