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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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