Author: Chris Snelgrove Published
During the last few months of December, I find myself immersed in the routine holiday tradition of watching Christmas episodes of my favorite sitcoms. Thanks to Hulu’s well-curated holiday episodes (why are they the only major streamer to do this?), it was easy to find the right episodes and I ended up watching them all in one sitting Frasier‘s Christmas episode. They were in some ways even better than I remembered, but like Lilith attending the Christmas party, one thing ruined my enjoyment: Remember Frasier The reboot was relatively bad and is probably the best example of a bad TV revival.
“Happy Family” restarts plot
If you haven’t experienced the dubious pleasures yet Frasier Get yourself a reboot, and here’s the synopsis: We start with our titular character, who’s at a crossroads after his father dies, Charlotte leaves him, and his Dr. Phil-style talk show comes to an end. Deciding to start over, he moved back to Boston to start a new gig teaching at Harvard University while rekindling his relationship with his son. Yet everything from the difficulties of adjusting to a new job to finding a common culture with his firefighter son are constant reminders that while Frasier has aged, he hasn’t necessarily gotten wiser.
why it sucks
This wraps up faster than Eddie ran out of the bathroom, why do I think Frasier Is the reboot the ultimate example of a bad TV revival? The first and perhaps main reason is that the main cast of the revival is missing virtually all of the ensemble characters that made the original show such a hit. The returning characters mostly appear in small cameos, leaving viewers with a new cast of characters who aren’t as interesting or compelling as their previous counterparts.
It’s not the actor’s fault. The cast is generally talented but still original Frasier Screenwriter Ken Levine explained on Hollywood & Levine that none of the characters in the reboot, with the exception of his son, have any real connection to Frasier himself. Among them was Harvard professor Alan Cornwall, who was considered a “best friend” but was “never mentioned” in the New York Times. cheers or Fraser. It’s a good point, and the longer he went on, the more I realized that a lot of the problems with the show’s characters are the constant unraveling (narratively and comedically) of what a star reboot might be.
Levine’s breakdown also involves Eve, a new mother who lives with Fraser’s son after the death of her firefighter boyfriend. Levine noted that we have to ask ourselves an important question about her character’s story: “What does this have to do with Frasier?” He then asked if it was possible to “lose that character,” before explicitly answering his own question :”sure.”
The last character in the Big Apple reboot that Levine focused on was Olivia Finch, the Harvard dean on Big Apple who’s desperate to hire a big name to teach at the university. The author raises a big question: When it comes to a prestigious university like Harvard, what do they “pay” in hiring famous faculty, which would only do the trick for “very small colleges, some manufactured Middlebury “make an impact. ”. Her obsession with celebrity status also makes it harder to answer “What is her role?” when it comes to bossing Fraser around.
actually getting better
Reading his mind felt like a revelation. Frankly, while I was internally raving about the new series, I felt a bit like Fraser himself, and Levine came in as Martin and had some blunt words for me. By definition, ensemble performance is there is nothing does not have its characters, and Frasier Reboots will always succeed or fail based on the character’s powers. But compared to the old version Frasier With the new reboot, it’s easy to see that the new show’s characters are failures in every way.
Despite this, all Frasier‘s mistakes didn’t stop the reboot from getting a second season, which (to be fair) managed to improve on existing characters while bringing back fan-favorite original character Roz Doyle. While Season 1 was the ultimate example of a failed TV show revival, Season 2 seems like the show is finally moving in the right direction (albeit very slowly, and the characters are still pretty clunky). This leaves us with a moral worthy of the classic Frasier Christmas Episode: Even for the worst among us, it’s never too late to try to be better.
