Arithmetic mean of my scores for the season: 8.2727…
What I think the show as a whole deserves: 9.8
10 it is. What a stunningly beautiful series.
9.5/10 (if only trakt supported that)
By rights, I should give this season an 8 (my per-episode ratings average out to 8.41). But I enjoyed it a lot more than that. I don't feel like a 10 is completely justified, since I did have a few bones to pick with the narrative, but a 9 is a bit shy of what the show deserves.
Average episode rating for this season: 7.66…
I'll assign my true rating based on rounding the score of 8.5 I'd give if Trakt supported it. In my opinion, Frasier really hit its stride in this season, knocking out more "great" or better episodes in one year than its predecessor Cheers ever did.
Bit over the top in places with all the sex and blood, but usually all of those favored elements serve a plot purpose. I can't give the season any less than a 9 for sheer scale—the story of these 10 episodes is absolutely huge—and ambition. It delivers.
Slow at points, enough that I took a break from watching for some time, despite starting while the season was yet unfinished. But the last few episodes are very much worth the journey.
I feel ambivalent about rounding this season's raw average of 8.6 up to a 9, but really…all that keeps me from giving the series a 10 is the Bermuda Triangle nonsense and the somewhat weak writing at the very end. The rest of the show is very strong, and it deserves the 9.
Average episode rating for this season: 8.2083333…
Frasier just keeps getting better. The performances are tighter; the writing, snappier. It doesn't hurt that Season 7 finally pays off a long build-up that started way back in the show's third episode.
Average episode rating for this season: 7.80769231
This is lower than expected…by kind of a lot. I'll bump it up.
Average episode rating this season: 7.166666…
Hell. No. This was a solid first season, with way fewer flops than a normal series just finding its legs usually has. I'd give it an 8.5 if I could, but I'll have to be satisfied with rounding that up to a 9 because Trakt doesn't do point ratings.
Episode average rating: 7.73333333
I'm tacking on an extra point for the sheer enjoyment of this show, and how much I'll miss it. I have to find another show like Leverage to fill its slot in my rotation now, and that won't be easy to do.
8.6/10: That was a really fun ride. I have no idea why it took me so long to get through this single season (2 years and a few weeks), but I'm looking forward to the next three seasons now!
Average episode rating: 7.90909090…
Rounded to 8, bumped to 9 for how enjoyable this season was despite a couple slow spots.
I can't defer to the average of all my episode ratings, as I usually do, because I did not rate all episodes of this season. Since I've already seen them all at least twice by now, either when I was watching reruns on cable or during my 2014–present long-term project to properly watch the whole series, I'd rather forge ahead.
Maybe I'll return at some point to the episodes I didn't rate—but for now, I just know this was a superb season…so 9/10 it is.
Average episode rating this season: 7.416666… (comfortably rounded up to 8/10 because I so look forward to the show coming around in my rotation again)
I'd counter @drnkmnky's assessment ("mediocre") with this point: The humor of Frasier is much more, shall we say, cerebral than many other popular sitcoms. I find Friends in particular to be a very marked contrast. Personally, I laugh much more at the wittiness of the Crane brothers and the people around them than I do at the often inane antics of Ross et al.
Average episode rating for this season: 7.6818181…
It's a rollercoaster, and (as one might expect) not every show is a winner. But the whole is generally good, even if I've realized during this rewatch that Eric might actually be the more mature Matthews brother. Cory has been selfish and jealous a lot these past couple seasons, and they've both grown of course, but I see now what a great role model Eric could be if Cory would open his eyes.
Eric was too often used as the clown, I think. When I was younger, I just laughed at his gags (obviously the writers' goal). But now, I can see that more down-to-earth stories like the Tommy arc would have done his character a ton of good.
Average episode rating for this season: 7.4166666… (Welp. We're back to repeating decimals again.)
It's tough to decide whether I should round that up or down. The show's writing gets on my nerves as often as not, though I appreciate the satire peppered throughout. Does it make up for the clichéd jokes, though? Hmm… I guess. There are enough smart references from all over pop culture (and all over the last century, almost), too. And who could round down a season with Wallace Shawn in it?
Average episode rating for this season: 7.61538462
I'm surprised it's not higher, actually. I always look forward to watching this show, and it takes a huge amount of self-control not to binge half a season in one sitting. Yes, I'm actively trying to watch it as slowly as I can, to savor the experience for as long as possible.
More sitcoms should be like this.
Average episode rating this season: 8.0333…
I don't think I have ever voted 10 on this many episodes in a single season before—or even in a single series.
Even when the script is lame, the cast's performances (almost) always pick up the slack.
Average rating of the 21 regular episodes in this season: 7.38095238
(some databases, including NBC's VOD platform, include the special episode "Olympics" at the beginning of season 2)
I'm going to round up this time. I actually really enjoyed this season, even if I didn't laugh a whole lot or give individual episodes particularly high ratings. Sticking it out this long was definitely worthwhile.
Average episode rating for this season: 8.0
Yes, exactly. I was surprised, too—not least because the characters seem to have been stagnating, so it's pretty astonishing that I rated these episodes high enough to eke out an 8.0 average.
I guess the individual scenes are funny enough, more often than not? The show as a whole doesn't really seem to be going anywhere, unfortunately. It happens to a lot of shows after they exhaust the initial stack of great ideas, and the writers start leaning more and more on generic sitcom clichés like petty domestic squabbles and love polygons.
Average episode rating for this season: 7.84615385
It's a real shame USA pulled a Syfy and canceled this series just when it reached the target of three years' worth of buildup. The payoff in season four could have been truly superb.
Average episode rating for this season: 7.5
I forgot how off-the-wall Barney is…
Average episode rating for this season: 7.333…
And yet I think it deserves that upward rounding, given how common an individual episode rating of 8 is in the data. Let's say I rated this one on the mode, rather than the mean.
Average episode rating for this season: 7.909090…
Chock full of solid character-building and meaningful stories, with very few missteps.
Average episode rating for this season: 8.0454545…
Hopefully it's not the nostalgia talking, but I really thought the show came into its own with Cory and friends in their high school years.
I'm surprised that my average episode rating this season was only 7.34375.
Excluding the two biggest outliers (two 4/10 scores I gave late in the season) yields 7.5666… which is a bit more believable. I would rather not drop the score for such a lengthy season when 28/32 episodes earned at least 7/10, so I'll round up.
Poor scripts aside, the core cast of the show is great, I look forward to watching them, and one must especially remember that writing for television is hard when choosing ratings for a show about a television writer.
Average episode rating for this season: 8.0 (yes, really; no repeating decimal!)
With the exception of that frustratingly stale final episode, this is a really fun and cute watch. I certainly hope it can get a second season, even if it didn't seem to hint at one.
Average episode rating for this season: 7.7
There are a lot of things to like about this final season. Multiple consecutive runs of very compelling stories make up for (some of) the flatness of Hammond's and O'Neill's replacements, General Landry and Colonel Mitchell. The show manages to give Vala more depth than in season 9. Truly bad episodes are few.
Knowing that the series was this close to an eleventh season as an Apple original series is a little irritating given that the blocker was a technicality in the contract with then-named Sci-Fi Channel, which allowed them to "not approve" the show's return elsewhere. Despite my frequent high ratings for this final season, though, it never felt the same as the SG-1 with which I initially fell in love.
Average episode rating for this season: 7.545454…
Particularly in the latter half, there were some real clunkers that took willpower to finish watching, but the overall story development is good in this season despite the few boring weeks.
Average episode rating for this season: 7.9090909…
Stargate SG-1 continues to balance drama, exploration, and humor in a delightfully entertaining mixture.
Teal'c remains the funniest character.
Hammond is still the SGC's impeccably principled father figure.
Average episode rating this season: 7.82608696
It really is quite consistent. No awful episodes to be seen anywhere, unlike some sitcoms.
