Review: The Sympathizer, "Give Us Some Good Lines" | Season 1, Episode 4
Do YOU understand cinema?
“I feel like you’re watching me masturbate right now.”
One of the big comfort-food titles in my life is Frasier. I’m not going to tell you that all 11 seasons hold up smoothly, but I do genuinely think the first few seasons of the show hold up remarkably well now and are just as good as the best seasons of Cheers. (Fight me on that one.) There’s a Season 4 episode, “Death and the Dog,” in which Frasier uses his afternoon radio show to tell a lengthy story to relate to a caller who’s down in the dumps, so that he can encourage that caller to buck up. But since it’s also a standard-issue episode of a sitcom, there’s a B plot and a C plot, neither of which have much to do with the main idea of Frasier’s recounted story. One of the subplots involves his perpetually single producer Roz Doyle and her latest fling, which grows cold when she learns he’s a gynecologist. As she and a friend are discussing the pitfalls of dating OB-GYNs, we cut to the radio show, where Roz is angrily ho…