I can empathize with Kohan and Mutchnick, who must have been thrilled for the opportunity to make different choices for their characters in what is, in so many ways, a very different time than the era in which we first got to know them.
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If this series finale finds them enjoying a dramatic reunion in the Statue of Liberty’s torch, does it work? As perhaps one of the few people who has watched every episode of Will & Grace, let me answer authoritatively: it does not. Can they make this plotline work if Will and Grace are both single? Does it work if Will subsequently decides he wants to become the parent of a different baby, via surrogacy? Does it work if Will and Grace consciously commit to raise their kids together, this time in a big house in a town upstate that they purchase together? Their sidekicks are also given an opportunity to redo their old storylines: do they work if Jack ditches his various day jobs to pursue his acting career? Across both iterations of the show, we’ve seen Stanley divorce Karen, die, reveal himself to have faked his death, reconcile with Karen, and divorce her again.
Throughout this (second) final season, viewers have been held hostage as the show’s producers try to Bandersnatch another Grace pregnancy and its effect on the titular pair’s relationship. But it doesn’t explain why the series went through all that trouble, only to end up at the exact same place. That explains why Will & Grace decided to pretend its original ending had never happened when it returned to NBC. When the revival began, series creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick told Entertainment Weekly that this was a fine place to leave the show’s characters at the time-but problematic once they decided to bring the show back. Grace’s response: “Very clever, but this isn’t for the vice president.” (Yes, there was a joke about Trump being a Cheeto.) In another, Grace tries to get a baker to make a MAGA cake for Karen the baker gives her one that says “I’MAGAY” instead. Will & Grace did do that, albeit in a cringe way: one episode found a Donald Trump\–supporting Karen getting Grace ( Debra Messing) a job redecorating the Oval Office. Megan Mullally’s Karen was right to say that no one wanted to see Will and Grace trying to raise their tweens after the political grandstanding of that PSA, though, viewers likely expected the show to comment on current events. So the series returned to NBC-and, after a breezy ret-con of the original show’s divisive ending, got down to business as usual. The PSA didn’t work, of course-but it did rack up 7 million views, indicating that the show’s audience was eager to reconnect with their old friends. (It may have gotten more traction if the series that spawned it were available to stream: also true of Mad About You, a Spectrum Original Series that even Spectrum customers had a hard time finding when its revival launched last year.) Roseanne was riveting for all the wrong reasons, though watching it became a less ethically dubious prospect after its star was fired and the show was rechristened The Conners.Īnd then there’s NBC’s Will & Grace, which was reborn as a pro- Hillary Clinton PSA before getting the full-scale revival treatment. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life underscored how poorly its entitled lead characters had aged Fuller House is manic and joyless Murphy Brown 2019 landed with a thud.
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If the recent glut of TV revivals has proven anything, it’s that you really can’t go home again.
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