The pompous, sherry-sipping, opera-loving Freudian will soon return. But with Niles out, Seattle abandoned and the star an avowed Trumpist, how can the beloved show recapture its magic? We asked the sitcom’s superfans
, Lyndhurst will play Frasier’s “old college buddy” Alan, a boozy British professor whose “mischievous streak might be just what Frasier could use to shake up his routine”.Photograph: NBC Universal/Getty Images
Like everyone else watching Frasier, I just wanted to live in that apartment. My God, that view! Growing up, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you where Seattle was, only that it was where Frasier, Martin, Niles and Eddie the jack russell terrier lived. I grew up in a working-class house but, for some reason, we too drank sherry by the gallon. Frasier and Niles’s obsession with it made me think it was so refined, even though ours was £5 plonk.
I rewatched it all recently and it still felt very contemporary. The stances taken are thoughtful and progressive. While the characters are privileged, they’re not the cast of Succession: these are middle-class people with cultural capital. That’s who the right now consider to be “elite”, especially in the US.
However, while Frasier was a beautiful, warm-hearted, caring show, Frasier himself was among the less caring characters. Especially in the later seasons, he was getting more self-absorbed and absurd. It does leave me wondering how they are going to get the magic back, that sweetness. This could be an opportunity to be more controversial. It would be interesting to see Frasier’s approach to modern discussions of mental health, influenced by his late father, sadly no longer seated in that armchair. Rarely does a spin-off surpass its original, but I reckon Frasier has this in the bag. I just hope they keep their tradition of amazing cameos.
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