ON THE SMALL SCREEN

By Jenny Peters

CLASSIC AND BRAND NEW

FRASIER
Paramount+
It’s been 30 years since Frasier hit the TV airwaves, with Kelsey Grammer taking his Cheers character from Boston to Seattle, starting an 11-year run that garnered the show a record 37 Emmy Awards for a comedy. He’s returning to Boston with a new series of the same name. He’ll see some old friends (like Bebe Neuwirth, Peri Gilpin, and others) as he navigates back to Beantown. No sign of Niles (David Hyde Pierce) yet, but we’re hoping.


NEON
Netflix
Miami’s reggaeton music scene is the lively setting for this comedy about three small-town Florida friends who hit the big city, hoping to make it big like Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee. Tyler Dean Flores stars, along with Emma Ferreira, Jordan Mendoza, and Courtney Taylor, in this series that will indeed have you dancing in your living room.


CRIME (AND PUNISHMENT)

FOUND
NBC
In these complicated stories of the people who go missing every year in the United States (think 800,000 of them!), Shanola Hampton (Shameless) stars as a woman determined to discover why certain people drop off the face of the earth. The series is mysterious, a little criminal, and a lot of discoveries as to what happens to those who have disappeared.


REPTILE
Netflix
Benicio Del Toro stars in this twisted crime mystery as a police detective trying to unravel a murder that reverberates into his personal life. He’s joined by Justin Timberlake, Alicia Silverstone, and Eric Bogosian in this movie filled with twists and turns, ultimately filled with surprises that Del Toro helped to fashion, for Reptile marks the actor’s feature film screenwriting debut.


THE SPENCER SISTERS
The CW
In this Canadian crime series, Lea Thompson and Stacey Farber (Virgin River) play a mother-and-daughter private-detective duo about the pair’s differences. Victoria Spencer (Thompson) is a mystery novelist, while Darby Spencer is a police officer; when the two decide to change up their lives and open a crime-solving company, they realize that despite being family, they are not exactly the most compatible pair. But they somehow still get the job done when unraveling mysteries in this often-lighthearted series.