The Frasier Reboot Is Missing One Key Aspect Of The Original Series
It’s been over a year since Paramount Plus gave the greenlight to a reboot of Frasier with original star Kelsey Grammer returning to the role of everyone’s favorite radio psychiatrist. According to Deadline, the reboot is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality. Grammer confirmed that the writers are “in the final stages of the final script for the first episode of the Frasier reboot.” The actor said that the script was so moving that he cried, and named October as a potential start date for production. As exciting as it will be to see Dr. Crane again, the Frasier reboot will inevitably be missing one of the key elements that made the original series such a resounding success.
At its core, Frasier is a father-son story. In the pilot episode, just as Frasier is settling into his new life as a high society bachelor in Seattle, his brother Niles tells him that their father, Martin, can’t live alone anymore. Frasier resists the urge to put his dad in a nursing home and reluctantly allows Marty to move into his apartment with his trusty canine sidekick Eddie and a hideous old armchair held together by duct tape. Initially, the two constantly butted heads as one is a snooty, pompous doctor obsessed with opera and bored by sports while the other is a down-to-earth average joe obsessed with sports and bored by the opera. But, over the course of the series, Frasier and Marty gradually warmed to one another.
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There were plenty of other things going on in the show, from Frasier’s biting back-and-forth with his producer Roz to Niles’ infatuation with Marty’s live-in physiotherapist Daphne. But the emotional throughline of Frasier was the story of a father and son who’d
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