📽 /🎵 "Frasier" Paramount +

[TerryP]

From must watching EP1, it appears the quality of writing is back.

 

[JoshB]

Another show I've never watched two seconds of.

 

[TerryP]

Another show I've never watched two seconds of.

Some really good writing on the first run as well as this one. Yes, some of it is cliche...but some of the stuff is just down right funny...normally hidden lines in normal dialogue.

 

[TerryP]

Another show I've never watched two seconds of.

You'll have to find it but if you're going to go here you have to start with Cheers. Then to Frasier ...

Think about this. Name another character on TV that's lasted through...what, four decades now? In three different renditions.

 

[rick4bama]

@TerryP what your take on the fist episode?

 

[TerryP]

@TerryP what your take on the fist episode?

Same as the second...good writing, good comedic timing. It's a good show.

 

[rick4bama]

@TerryP watch the first one, and you are right. The only thing that has changed is the location. Maybe the only ones that I think should come back is Norm and Cliff or maybe Carlo. Watching the second one now.

 

[XXL TideFan]

May have to watch it. My preschool son watched the original with me and got the humor most of the time but then Hannity & Colms was on Fox & he said Colms “creeps me out”. Bright kid

 

[It Takes Eleven]

You just cost me an hour, @TerryP , but it was enjoyable. The show has the same writers, and you know the jokes are coming..."Dad, can you pass the salt".

I had an offer to get Paramount + and Showtime from Amex, it's $11.99 a month to include Showtime, and I get an $11 credit for the first three months, so I'm on the clock to get all Yellowstone prequels out of the way, too.

Back to work...

 

[TerryP]

Yes, some of it is cliche

and you know the jokes are coming..."Dad, can you pass the salt".

And then you have the Oedipus line.

 

[rick4bama]

@TerryP the only thing missing is the phone call at the beginning of the old show.I know he not on the radio.

 

[TerryP]

@TerryP the only thing missing is the phone call at the beginning of the old show.I know he not on the radio.

Tim is right. A lot identical to the original. He's retired...and now you've made me wonder. What ya want to bet the show starts off with a phone call in one of the eight remaining episodes?

 

[JoshB]

You'll have to find it but if you're going to go here you have to start with Cheers. Then to Frasier ...

Think about this. Name another character on TV that's lasted through...what, four decades now? In three different renditions.

Munch! From Homicide Life on the Street to Law & Order SVU, Cold Case and even X-Files.

 

[rick4bama]

Munch! From Homicide Life on the Street to Law & Order SVU, Cold Case and even X-Files.

Didn't Munch tell everyone why he left the Boston Police and move to NYCPD?

 

[XXL TideFan]

Watched the first two episodes. Like the Brit and without looking up the writers I told my wife that they must be the same ones or they studied the old show to get the fell for it.

 

[JoshB]

Didn't Munch tell everyone why he left the Boston Police and move to NYCPD?

From what I remember it was implied that Munch straight up murdered a child molester and then retired from Boston and went to NYC.

 

[Rsedge72]

From what I remember it was implied that Munch straight up SERVED JUSTICE on a child molester and then retired from Boston and went to NYC.

Fixed it

 

[TerryP]

Homicide Life on the Street

I'd have to look up the name of the book...it's close to this; central character is Jay something...Munch is based off that character: true crime story. I read it when I was in school for undergrad...so early 90's.

 

[JoshB]

Fixed it

Actually I got it wrong lol Been so long since I've seen it. They thought it was a child molester that murdered a bunch of cops (they were raiding his house) but it ended up being someone else. He got off of it and then wound up dead and it was heavily implied that Munch is the one that offed him and covered it up.

 

[JoshB]

I'd have to look up the name of the book...it's close to this; central character is Jay something...Munch is based off that character: true crime story. I read it when I was in school for undergrad...so early 90's.

Yep, David Simon's book (longtime crime reporter in Baltimore) Homicide A Year on the Killing Streets. He based Munch off Jay Landsman and two other cops. They ended up using that book and The Corner as the basis for The Wire (and the mini-series The Corner, which a ton of actors would end up being used on The Wire, too). They also made Landsman a character in The Wire.