After a rocky start to the season last week, this Will & Grace episode is more like it: a carefully crafted and tied-up sitcom package. As the title indicates, “Where In The World Is Karen Walker?” is a tidy theme to wrap an episode around, as each of Karen’s friends flash back to their final interaction with her…
Like its first season, the Will & Grace reboot’s second season has gotten off to a rocky start. When the show is firing on all cylinders, as it was before it wrapped up before hiatus in the spring, there’s really nothing like it, as the four leads display the chemistry just as intact as it was 20 years ago. But in…
You know Cyrano de Bergerac even if you don’t know Cyrano De Bergerac. The protagonist of Edmond Rostand’s century-old play—based loosely on the life of an actual French polymath—is a canonical figure, his romantic plight, panache, and prodigious proboscis immortalized in countless stagings, adaptations, and lit-class…
It’s a question I’ve asked many times this season: Why did Will & Grace come back? I mean, other than the fact that the networks were apparently out of ideas and looking to bring back old hits? A multi-cam sitcom, no less?
At nine seasons and over 200 episodes, Will & Grace has had a lengthy run that’s only going to get longer, what with NBC ordering two more seasons of the revival. In order to help us navigate through the vast catalog of episodes, the cast and creators of Will & Grace, including Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Megan…
The saga of Marlon Bundo—John Oliver’s LGBTQ-positive parody of a children’s book by the wife and daughter of Vice President Mike Pence—continues this week, with Will & Grace showrunner Max Mutchnick pledging to push the tome’s roaring sales numbers even higher. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mutchnick has…
I really appreciate how Will & Grace has treated the death of Debbie Reynolds, who played Bobbie Adler, Grace’s mom. From her picture in Will and Grace’s apartment, to Grace’s meltdown at Rosario’s funeral, the show has aptly depicted how long the grieving process takes and how, in some ways, it never really ends. In…
Will & Grace’s cultural impact has been a topic of much debate. Back in 2012, Vice President Joe Biden cited the show as doing “more to educate the American public [on the gay community] than almost anything anybody has ever done,” and in 2014, the Smithsonian added scripts, memorabilia, and the original series finale…
It may look like 2018 outside, but in the TV world it’s still looking a lot like the late-’90s or early-2000s because NBC wants a lot more Will & Grace and its airwaves. As reported by Variety, the network has given the revived sitcom an extended episode order for its upcoming second season as well as a whole third…
I hate to even think about it, but let’s look back on Will & Grace’s almost completely painful first episode this season, 11 years after the series’ original finale. The Cheeto as a design color guide, for example. The show was trying hard to make a political statement, but failed almost every time it tried.
Sure, it’s an embarrassment of riches, but the minds behind this particular episode of Will & Grace could have used a little restraint. For the usual 22-minute episode, we get an A-plot and a B-plot, with the foursome of Will, Grace, Jack, and Karen divided in a variety of different ways. This week, each one of our…
One of the best, most fun parts of the old Will & Grace was the interchangeability of the groupings of the four main leads. Will and Grace, Jack and Karen, Will and Jack, Grace and Karen, all four leads together… all these combos have their advantages. But the diagonal dyads of Jack and Grace and Will and Karen may…
Last episode, Will & Grace dove into Will’s emotional baggage with his ex. This week, we take a look at Jack’s stunted emotional past with help from some painful Karen flashbacks. It’s nice that the show is drawing on its characters’ considerable history, even if calling some of these progressions baby steps would be…
“Sometimes things are so obvious you can’t see ’em.”
I knew it was going to be a lot to hope for two great Will & Grace episodes in a row, but damn, this was steep decline from last week. After Nick Offerman rejuvenated Will & Grace last episode, Molly Shannon tried hard, but failed to do the same this week.
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Thursday, January 11. All times are Eastern.
If I’ve seemed hard on this new round of Will & Grace, it’s probably because I love too much. I was a big fan of the original, and was disappointed that this new version seemed like a mere shadow of what came before it. The first episode really rubbed me the wrong way, as did several that followed.
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Man, this revamp is killing me. It’s getting harder to remember why I once liked these characters so much. This week, in an attempt to clunkily craft some commentary on immigration and modern-day progressivism, Will & Grace goes back to 1912 to show us all how much better we have it now. As if we wouldn’t know that a…
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