Fraser's ex from Cheers returns. She has been raising their son and decides to go to Seattle while he is at camp. She is hoping to rekindle a relationship. There is a tense reunion at the apartment as she seems to frighten anyone in her path. What a great character she always was and the foil for some great bits. But it isn't always that we get what we want and there is a lot of history. There are some great lines here. Once again, one of Frasier's diatribes (without thinking what he is saying) brings things to a boil.
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Hitchcoc25 September 2019
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I wonder if the show came out today how much the Frasier-Lilith relationship would change. The depictions of divorced couples in America media can sometimes have creepy MRA/Manospherean subtext creep into them. There is *very* little of that in this episode-or for that matter show-and the depiction here is more fair than Kramer vs. Kramer. Yet it is not as balanced as say Marriage Story. Lilith-starting with her name-has always been depicted as a quasi-temptress, yet the writers manage to make the character feel as well rounded as Frasier and you care about her. This episode manages to get a couple of really funny ex-wife jokes in without turning Lilith into an object of derision. Solid.
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studioAT7 March 2023After only sixteen episodes the writers of 'Frasier' obviously felt that they had done enough to establish the new characters and world that Frasier Crane was living in to risk a 'Cheers' reunion in the form of Lilith.
Fair play to them, it's a bold move, one that 'Joey' would never feel comfortable enough in its own skin to try, but they manage to pull it off here, and tell a good story.
There are some lovely moments here, and this a rare example of a 'Cheers' reunion that works, as most of the Lilith episodes do actually.
With a good sense of heart and the other characters accepting their place on the side-lines for a bit, this was a lovely episode. -
puzgolac21 January 2023It was a good episode overall. It had some funny moments and the most brilliant one, undoubtedly, was the scene in the coffee shop which pokes fun at what psychotherapists do. Both the writing and the acting was excellent. On the other hand, we have Bebe Neuwirth whose acting is absolutely terrible. She has no range at all. She can do the spiteful ex wife, but in the scene where she is supposed to show deeper emotions she is beyond awful, to the point that I thought that her character was meant to just fake being hurt and emotional before delivering some poisonous remark. But her character was supposed to be really hurt and vulnerable in that scene and Neuwirth was nowhere near to pulling that off.