Frasier

We're back with Paramount+ for a few months, most of which will involve me watching the last several Star Trek seasons (the final season of "Discovery", of "Lower Decks", and the new season of "Strange New Worlds". Oh, and the "Section 31" movie.) However, the other thing we've been watching is the second season of the "Frasier" reboot.

The bottom line: it's alright.

The fundamental problem with the show is that it's very much a repeat of "Frasier", but with less charm and fewer jokes than the original. The cast do their jobs, and do them well, but they just don't quite have the same cohesion as the cast of the original.  And so, people who weren't fans of the original are unlikely to be won over by this show, which really doesn't have much to offer them, while fans of the original are left with an inevitable and unfavourable comparison. However, you cut it, that's not ideal.

Ultimately, the show basically sums itself up in an episode in the second season, in which Frasier returns to Seattle and KACL to find the station on its last legs. He eventually persuades Ros to give it up as a lost cause: it was fun, but it's had its day. Which, sad to say, is true of "Frasier" itself.