TV (Bonus) Review: Frasier (Season 12ish)

The Next Chapter Begins

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INTRODUCTION

This is a quick (bonus) review of the just released last year TV show, Frasier (2023). To better keep up to date with my thoughts on movies as well, follow me on Letterboxd.

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THE PLOT

Via Google: Hoping for a better relationship with his son, Frederick, now a Boston firefighter, Frasier takes a professorship at Harvard University and moves into Freddy's apartment building. With the help of his family and his new colleagues, Frasier is about to embark on his "third act

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QUICK REVIEW

If you ask me what my all-time favorite TV show is I'll give you either one answer or another depending on the day. Its either Downton Abbey or Frasier. The latter helmed by Kelsey Grammer who has embodied Doctor Frasier Crane going all the way back to the eighties super-hit sitcom, Cheers (Which ranks very high among my personal favorite TV shows as well). So much so that I must admit when I see him in any other role I feel taken aback he’s not the beloved psychiatrist. But for better or worse, Grammer will always be known as the character.

So it probably wasn’t to many’s surprise that after twenty years he was ready to play Frasier again. But what new things can you do with a character that has been a part of two series that lasted 11 seasons? Well why not have the tables turned on him from being the good son giving his father a place to stay to being the overly-attached dad so desperate to reconnect with his son, Freddy, that he decides to move in together with him. Add in a single mother across the hall with a special connection to Freddy, Frasier’s nephew, David, attending his classes, and university colleagues that get him into trouble.