The cast of Frasier the reboot series hasn’t felt entirely cohesive until now, but season 2, episode 9, “Murder Most Finch,” appears to have finally resolved that issue. “Murder Most Finch” finds Olivia throwing a surprise murder mystery party and Frasier doing everything in his power to excuse himself and his date from joining in on the fun. The episode continues Frasier’s romance with his latest love interest, down-to-earth bartender Holly Quagliano, played by Everybody loves RaymondPatricia Heaton, which is her most promising relationship in the reboot to date.
This was easily one of the Frasier best reboot episodes so far. As only two seasons have passed, the Frasier the revival is still finding its feet, but “Murder Most Finch” is a big sign that the show may have finally found them. It’s one of the only episodes where the reboot felt like the classic original show. Like a witty farce where everyone is dressed in ridiculous costumes and doing equally ridiculous things, is reminiscent of the classic Halloween episode of the OG show: season 5, episode 3, “Halloween.”
The Frasier reboot struggled with several of its new characters
The reboot cast didn’t live up to the OG cast
Until now, the Frasier the reboot cast failed to live up to the OG cast. The OG cast is one of the most iconic sitcom casts ever assembled, and The reboot’s cast has just been a disparate collection of characters who rarely interact. Alan is great, but has been a bit underused, and the others have struggled to varying degrees. It never felt like the whole thing was together. There were great moments with Frasier and Alan, or Frasier and Roz, or Freddy and Eve, but It wasn’t cohesive like the original show.
Frasier Season 2 Episode 9 Could Be a Turning Point for Its New Characters
The Frasier Reboot set finally clicked
“Murder Most Finch” proved that the Frasier the reboot works best when all the characters are together in the same location. Throughout the episode, everyone gets their individual moment to shine, but they work really well as a real group that bounces back. That hasn’t really happened in the reboot so far — Frasier’s friends and co-workers have typically been kept separate in the A and B plots — but “Murder Most Finch” proves it’s the key to making the revival last.
THE GO Frasier the series often stood out with all of its best characters in one place — usually Frasier’s apartment — and “Murder Most Finch” recaptures that in a charming way. FrasierThe highest-rated episode of Season 4, Episode 18, “Ham Radio,” puts all the characters in a recording booth to present Frasier’s ambitious radio drama. What makes a sitcom a success is when the ensemble clicksand up to this point, the Frasier the reset set didn’t really work. But everything changed in “Murder Most Finch”.