Critics hate it but I'm really enjoying it.
Am I alone?
I don't compare it at all with Rossiter's original series; this is completely different but still very good.
As though someone made a hilarious comedy about a seaside hotel; similarities with Fawlty Towers but totally different.

If someone made a comedy about a seaside hotel and called it Fawlty Towers featuring Bazil and Cybil and a waiter called Manuel it would be more than similar. Just as the new Reggie Perin is more than similar to the original. I loved Martin Clunes as Doc Martin and in his new British Isles program, but I still see Leonard Rossiter as Reggie Perin and just cannot accept Clunes in the role. But I agree that there will be many who have never seen the original and so that won't be the case for them.

Hate it! Hate it! Hate it!