Frasier Reboot Review: Kelsey Grammer’s Return Feels Familiar Despite Changes

The Frasier reboot leans on nostalgia, highlighting just how great the original show was. Kelsey Grammer has officially returned as Frasier Crane in the Paramount+ revival of the most Emmy decorated comedy series. In the Frasier reboot, Frasier finds himself back in Boston, his old haunt in Cheers. Doing so solves a couple of narrative issues for the endeavor. It explains the absence of Niles Crane and Daphne Moon, as both are still based in Seattle; it gives the show a concrete storytelling goal for the character, which is to mend his fractured relationship with his grown-up son, Freddy; and despite Frasier’s history with Boston, he no longer hangs out with the people at Cheers. This paves the way for the reboot to introduce a new ensemble led by legendary British comedy actor, Nicholas Lyndhurst as Frasier’s old Oxford buddy.