Tag: sequel

  • Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is stuck in suspended animation

    I recently finished watching the Gilmore Girls sequel for the third time, and I realised the core problem for me wasn’t the story itself. It was that the characters didn’t seem to have changed enough during the ten-year gap. They felt frozen in time, as if they had all stood perfectly still after the original…

  • Why the Frasier sequel fell flat compared to the original.

    I’ve been watching Frasier for almost two decades now. I watched it practically every weekday morning with my mum on Channel 4 before school, and later before college. It became part of my morning routine, like spending time with old friends. And even into adulthood I continue to watch it while I eat breakfast. So,…