Review of Frasier

There were two sitcoms that were my staple viewing in college, this and Friends. While Friends destroyed itself in the final three seasons, somehow Frasier managed to avoid that fate and delivered eleven straight seasons of great comedy. It's just remarkable how they managed to keep the quality so high for so long. Credit to the great writers who worked on the show and to the actors as well.

One of the best things about the show was that all the characters, Frasier, Niles, Martin, Daphne and Roz stayed true to their original selves even as they evolved. If you watch the first season and the final season back to back, they characters feel the same, even as they are different. This is remarkable because so many sitcoms (I'm looking at you, Friends) end up with characters that are almost caricatures of their original selves in an attempt to get cheap laughs. Not on this show, thankfully.

Seven years after it ended, Frasier has aged very well for me. It's still as funny and fresh as it was the first time I watched on.