Mediocre stuff...

First episode was certainly serviceable. It's easy to see that all the new characters are reworks of the old ones. There was a few brief sparks of the old writing. Grammar still felt very much in the role. I get the feeling that's just who he is in real life. Show structure and set designs pretty much mimicing the old show as well. The David character is annoying and total dead weight. Apparently Frasier has become ludicrously rich with Iron Man money in the last twenty years. Some of the writing was off and rushed. Frasier foams at the mouth in a typical rant about wrapping up his son in a web of lies and no such encounter plays out with the old shenanigans, things are just immediately settled and swept aside. But as a pilot it did its job fine. Characters, setting, and show tone have all been set.

But it did give a good closure in regards to the ending of previous show.

Frasier got together with Charlotte for about 20 years, until they broke up and that is why he decided to leave Chicago. He worked as a successful TV talk show host in Chicago, maybe similar to Dr. Phil, which should be good money (a quick internet search shows Dr. Phil is worth 460 million), and that is why he could afford to buy the building. That is why the Harvard department head wanted him, to use his celebrity to attract more students and funding.

Everything makes sense, which rarely happens in movies and TV shows these days, so that is kind of satisfying.

The Harvard department head of course has to be a black woman, and "brilliant scholar", which was from someone held grudges against her, so it is a bit hard to believe, also he has tenure so "absolute terror" of what? But anyway it is the standard these days, and considering Harvard has quota of students based on race, even that is not so far fetched.

I actually quite liked the first two episodes.

The laughter track feels out of date but otherwise, pretty good.

There's nothing wrong with a studio audience but modern sitcoms for some strange reason film in front of an audience but use a laugh track. Older sitcoms didn't do this. Watch something like Married With Children or Martin. Those were real laughs from the people in the audience. As a sitcom fan, I'm fed up with what Hollywood is doing with multi cam sitcoms. All they're doing is making people hate them but it's really because they choose to make them poorly.

I just watched the first episode. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either. I like that they didn't change everything. The graphics, the title cards between scenes, and the closing credits song (with a tweak) are all the same. I think there's room to grow, but lightning will not strike twice.

With that said, I do think making Frasier even richer than he was in Seattle is a bit of lazy writing. How much more interesting it would be for Frasier and his high-brow ways to suddenly be thrown into the middle class world. Freddy could be the one with the financial windfall. I think there would be a lot of material to mine there.

The first 2/3 of the episode wasn't good at all but did improve toward the end with the best part between Freddy and Frasier talking about Martin. It has a chance to be decent but the writing will have to improve.

Just watched the first episode on YouTube. Apart from Frasier saying what he wanted most in life was to be a good father (as if), the episode seemed fine to me. A perfect recreation of the original show with new cast members. Completely faithful to the aesthetic of the original. People who liked the original - and there were millions - will no doubt enjoy this as well.