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Post by Ladyfingers on Jan 31, 2024 13:35:11 GMT
Another of my recent nostalgic TV series purchases, I got all eleven seasons of Frasier on Blu-ray. Yes, a '90s sitcom actually looks great in HD, and on an 85" TV the leap from SD is very, very noticeable.
I remember this being very funny at the time and a family favourite we'd all watch together but good grief it is fucking hilarious. Absolute lightning in a bottle with the cast and the writing is cuttingly sharp. I am really looking forward to making my way through these again.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jan 31, 2024 22:51:06 GMT
Weird I've never seen any of this. Just looked it up:1993-2004. Yep, my wheelhouse of initial isolation in Japan, pre seppo telly show access. Those years are like a cultural void for me. I just went to work and didnt know shit about what was going on in the free west
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Post by Ladyfingers on Feb 1, 2024 1:48:56 GMT
Weird I've never seen any of this. Just looked it up:1993-2004. Yep, my wheelhouse of initial isolation in Japan, pre seppo telly show access. Those years are like a cultural void for me. I just went to work and didnt know shit about what was going on in the free west Rewatching this was a revelation. It's so, so sharply written that it feels more like British comedy than American, but is a little warmer and kinder to its characters than the usual British misanthropy. I was absolutely shrieking with laughter at some of the lines, and the sly chemistry between Niles and Frasier is inimitable. Normally Daphne would be the fly in the ointment but even her slightly blithering character is a perfectly judged foil against Frasier's apoplectic snobbery.
Watch the pilot episode, trust me. It's got this amazing balance between sentiment and curmudgeonliness that errs on the side of laughs. Just perfection.
I hope to one day get Everybody Loves Raymond as I remember that being the more blue collar version of this one with the same sense of judgement regarding character and sentiment.
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