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Boss (TV series)

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Tituscrow

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Ok guys...here's another one. As someone who will argue to the death that Frasier is the best sitcom ever and therefore a massive Kelsey Grammer fan, I notice this new series about to air this week in the UK.

Worth a punt? Or will I be forever expecting him to turn into Frasier and start bickering with Niles?

I've only seen him do straight once before in that show about a TV guru. Don't recall giving it much of a chance because I couldn't get past him as Frasier.
 
#2
Tituscrow said:
As someone who will argue to the death that Frasier is the best sitcom ever
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You're dead to me now. ;)

Seriously though, that show was cancelled last year. It's not a comedy, rather a polito-drama...so no Miles-sparring hijinks...BUT, it did have two (short) seasons...and I hear they are looking to make a movie (according to the Wiki)

18 episodes total. From what I saw it was ok, worth watching if you get invested in the first 3 episodes I would imagine...
 
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hover said:
You're dead to me now. ;)

Seriously though, that show was cancelled last year. It's not a comedy, rather a polito-drama...so no Miles-sparring hijinks...BUT, it did have two (short) seasons...and I hear they are looking to make a movie (according to the Wiki)

18 episodes total. From what I saw it was ok, worth watching if you get invested in the first 3 episodes I would imagine...
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Funny how quickly you can go off people :)

I actually started a thread a few years ago titled 'Frasier - The Greatest Sitcom Ever'. Needless to say there was much ownage on my part.

I'll check it out. I think KG is a great actor.
 
#7
I'm sad to hear that Boss won't be back. I binge-watched both seasons this Fall while I was home sick and was looking forward to the next chapter. Oh well :(
Kelsey Grammer makes an excellent bad-guy as does Kevin Spacey in House of Cards (up to Epi 8 on that one)
Both 1st episodes were a little slow, but they both really pick up after that. Scandal on ABC is also a great political-drama type show.

I did hear that Magic City is coming back to Starz for it's second season (about a hotel owner and the Mob in Miami in the early 60s). Looking forward to that and also the return of Mad Men and The Borgias for Spring!!

I watch way too much TV...maybe I should take up an instrument or something productive ;)
 
#9
It wasn't bad... I tell you what.. he was certainly no Frasier Crane.. halfway through the first season I think it was you realize that either way the show was going to have a limited lifespan just due to the way the plot was going but for what it was it wasn't bad. I stumbled onto it second season and then caught up..
 
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Strat-Mangler said:
Watched the first couple of episodes. Too slow for my liking but KG is predictably astonishingly good as the protagonist.

As far removed from Frasier as you could possibly imagine.
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See, I'm such a Frasier fan - I think I must have seen every episode half a dozen times - that even in the trailers I've seen for Boss, I can't get past that magical performance as Dr Crane.

But I think I'll give it a go.
 

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