A modern-day Martin McFly traveling back in time to the Reagan years could not play the same prank about a strange Darth Vader on his young father as he did in Back to the Future: his popular culture and that of his parents would be remarkably similar. Time has been stuck, nostalgia reigns, the films and series of the eighties and nineties return again and again in an endless bombardment of prequels and sequels that we don’t know whether to attribute to the industry’s lack of ideas or to the comfortable prostration of a forty-year-old spectator who pursues his lost youth. Everything comes back, yes, the only thing missing was you, Dr. Frasier.
Kelsey Grammer played psychiatrist Frasier Crane twice, first as a sideline lounging around the Cheers bar, then in an even more famous spin-off, as a doctor and television host who had to deal with his manic brother and a retired detective father. whose plainness clashed with the lofty cultural pretensions of his two offspring. Between 1993 and 2004, Frasier drove half the world crazy and won all the awards. Twenty years later he returns with SkyShowtime and does so by jumping into the void. Without a father – the actor John Mahoney died in 2018 – and without a brother – David Hyde Pierce – who, showing off his difficult character, has not wanted to sign up for the new journey. But a nephew and, above all, a son, provide the new Frasier with an inverted mirror that gives another spin to the uncertainties of fatherhood.
The truth is out there, you have to make an effort to find it, without relying on a single source
Just because the world has become more narrow-minded, doesn’t mean humor should do the same.
