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Positive:
17
Mixed:
22
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews
The TelegraphOct 3, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Such is the sharp delineation of the writing and acting that they [Eve (Jess Salgueiro) and Olivia (Toks Olagundoye)] feel familiar within an episode. Freddy’s fire crew are also great value. .... Does it work? On the strength of the first five episodes, very much so.
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Oct 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
This is not one of those revivals whose very existence will force you to consider your own passing life and impending mortality. And Grammer is so completely Frasier — a deceptively unsentimental character in a basically sentimental show — that the new edition, for all its innovations, wraps itself comfortably around him.
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The GuardianOct 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Unlike the wretched reboot of Sex and the City, Frasier’s team has managed to update the comedy’s situation, incorporate Frasier’s greater age and its different challenges and diversify its casting without apparent strain. It feels like an organic progression rather than something flung together by a frightened committee.
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Oct 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
To be fair, the revival does begin to find its stride in later episodes, especially when it leans into the proudly pretentious tone of the original. (We even get a conversation spoken entirely in Latin!) But beyond the superficial similarities — the pithy title cards between scenes, Grammer crooning “Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs” over the end credits — this just isn’t Frasier.
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LooperSep 13, 2024
Season 2 Review:
The season has so much going for it. Cutmore-Scott really comes into his own and makes Freddy a more fleshed out figure rather than the blunt instrument he felt like throughout the first season. But there are still times where the beauty and complexity of this father-son relationship is simplified to justify a plot development, and its relative failure always seems tethered to when the joke writing is its weakest.
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Oct 11, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The new show has its moments — there’s a lovely tribute to Martin and to Mahoney at the end of the premiere episode — but it lacks the consistency, rapier wit and heart of the original, and doesn’t offer enough originality to merit us booking further sessions with Dr. Frasier Crane.
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Oct 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The revival relies on the same style of witty puns and double entendres as the original series, but the journey from setup to punchline is often clunkier. Even the fact that the new episodes are five to 10 minutes longer belies the fact that nothing here is quite as tight as in the original.
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The GuardianSep 19, 2024
Sep 19, 2024
Season 2 Review:
The new Frasier isn’t as awful at the beginning of its second season as it was at the beginning of its first. But it’s not great, either. The recommendation is because of all the guest stars that we’re going to see this season and a hope that the first episode of the season won’t be an indicator of what the rest of the season is like.
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Radio TimesOct 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
There are some decent gags in the revival, but the hit rate is undeniably spottier, leading to plenty of moments when the (apparently real) crowd is losing their minds as you stare at your screen, stony-faced and numb (maybe that's just me). Still, Frasier stands out as one of this year's most pleasant surprises – albeit, partly because the potential for failure was so huge.
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RogerEbert.comOct 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The new “Frasier” is perfectly palatable, especially for someone who’s worn out every episode of Dr. Crane’s previous escapades. And after a rocky first episode, the cast settles in a little better than one initially fears. But it’ll have to do a lot of legwork to lift itself to the annals of David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee’s iconic sitcom.
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ColliderOct 10, 2023
Season 1 Review:
The jokes start to become increasingly and glaringly repetitive, relying on the confusion of the characters rather than a more clever sense of charm. Frasier's return could easily find its footing as time goes on, but there is much that has proven to be rocky in the early stages of this return.
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Oct 30, 2023
Season 1 Review:
This doesn’t really work, not for a lack of trying. It really lies in the writing—where old Frasier’s jokes and character signposts were witty and incisive, new Frasier’s are hacky and hammy, covering too-familiar tropes and topics. .... For all my issues with this revival/spinoff, something undeniable is that Grammer has still got it.
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Oct 13, 2023
Season 1 Review:
But what's the value of recreating the same dynamics in the namesake character’s life without establishing new challenges for him? The revival forces us to ask that question, especially in the creaky two episodes currently streaming, directed by the legendary James Burrows.
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Oct 12, 2023
Season 1 Review:
In time, the formula may work. But right now, the organic warmth that inspired the pandemic binging isn’t there yet. .... Grammer overshadows everyone sharing the screen with him other than Lyndhurst, an English comedy legend best known for the 1980s sitcom Only Fools and Horses.
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Oct 12, 2023
Season 1 Review:
It’s one thing to say that the new Frasier is missing the chemistry between the cast members that made the original series so special. But it also tries way too hard to parallel the original in the most crucial spots, making it painful to watch at times, and not nearly as funny as it could be.
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