Kelly Park, one of the directors of Paramount+ ‘s revival of Frasier, was a fan of the series first, years before she ever became a director. “I am one of the biggest Frasier fans from day one,” she said to Shadow and Act. “I just loved his journey. And it’s interesting because here I am, this Black woman from Philly, like, how can you relate? How can you relate to this man? But the family dynamic and who he is as a human being I totally understood and related to. My mom was It’s kind of like his dad in a way and my sister’s kind of like Niles. So I had that thing that was in common.” She talked more about what it’s like to be a Black fan of something that people might not typically assume Black people like. One example that came up in conversation was the podcast Black People Love Paramore , a podcast that hypes up the atypical (but not really atypical) loves Black people have for alternative culture. Park loved hearing about the podcast and related it to how her love for Frasier...
