'Frasier' Reboot Forgets That Frasier Was The Show's Least Interesting Character
Good news for fans of ‘90s sitcoms and songs about plastering scrambled eggs across your face for some goddamn reason; the Frasier reboot is officially happening, thanks to a series order from Paramount+. Kelsey Grammer will reprise the role he’s best known for: Dr. Frasier Crane (the role he’s second-best known for, of course, being Darius Grouch the Third from Money Plane).
relentless slut-shaming of his producer, to be honest.
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It’s hard to overstate the degree to which Frasier was an ensemble show, not just a star vehicle for Grammer – like, David Hyde Pierce won four Emmys for playing Niles (nominated a total of 11 times), and arguably one of the very best episodes of the series barely featured Frasier Crane at all; season three’s “Moondance” relegated the show’s lead character to a background player because Grammer was busy directing the episode.
Which isn’t to say that the new show won’t come up with new characters for Frasier Crane to humorously bellow at – but if the only thing making this a Frasier reboot is the presence of Kelsey Grammer, what separates it from the myriad of other recent Grammer-starring sitcoms that were uniformly rejected by society as a whole?
And if the reboot is a hit, we can almost certainly expect Paramount to expand the Frasier-verse with shows like Detective Marty Crane Investigates and/or Chesterton: The Origin of Frasier’s Co-Worker Gil.
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