Fops Flop
Ratings for "Frasier" are slip, slip slipping, and the show is being cancelled.
Not a big surprise to me, folks.
I loved the character, "Frasier Crane" on Cheers. But I gave up watching the new Frasier after a good long, loyal, try.
I couldn't bear the archness of the brothers. Not just the repostes but the non-stop, pseudo-cultured blather that became more and more British in its delivery as the show pranced on. To the point where I could barely understand either one of them.
As for the posturing, brotherly snits and spats, and one-up-manship, I know they were staged--and successfully-- to show the little boy failings of two grown men, and that these goings-on were, indeed, the wellspring of the humor. Which had its moments. But such moments moved into cliche-land once the show began to parody itself.
Frasier and Nels became a couple of fops. The only real man, the only man with any sex appeal, was their aging father.
But perhaps I wasn't Fraiser's target audience.
7:08:03 PM 
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