The return of Kelsey Grammer's snobbish psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane has been highly anticipated. But while it's pleasant enough, it doesn't live up to the original, writes Caryn James.
In the midst of an argument, the psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane calls his son Oedipus. Later, when he learns that the reason behind someone's nickname is the least obvious possibility, he declares"Take that, Occam's razor". Highbrow references scattered through worn-out sitcom tropes with a live-audience laugh track – all that shapes the rebooted Frasier just as it did the original.
Hyde Pierce chose not to be in the reboot, but instead there is Niles's son, David. He is played by Anders Keith, a newcomer with expert comic timing, who enlivens every scene he is in. He makes David a delightful echo of Niles, as a nervous, socially inept Harvard student, almost as grandiloquent in his speech as his uncle.
If the reboot had leaned into satire more often, it would have had a fresher edge, and it possibly still can
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