Grace needs an assistant to replace Karen for a week so Jack gets hired to fill in. Harlin has some business to do this Halloween so he lands his kids on Will & Grace… Jack on the other hand has decided that his vocation is to become a cabaret singer… Grace sets out to decorate a flat for Harlin, one of Will’s clients. Grace sets out to find a new apartment for herself but Will seems to have little trust in her abilityĪfter moving into Will’s flat, Grace is finding that her bathroom is somewhat too small for her liking -expanding it would be a good idea but will Will agree? While Grace plans to get married although Will is uncertain is this is too smart a move…
However, in this area, Jack more than makes up for Will to such an extent he winds up being the usual Hollywood stereotype of a gay male – no points for guessing who between Jack and Will gets the most laughs in the series… All in all, Will and Grace does tend to tread a lot of the same ground as most American sitcoms but does have enough quirk and good sense of humour to make it an enjoyable if not unforgettable watch.Īll 22 episodes from the first season are featured over 3 DVDs (8 episodes per DVD). NBC seem to have been hell-bent on not alienating their audience (or more crucially the sponsors) in this first season – Will’s lack of partner seems to have been chosen to give an aura of mystery to his real feelings towards Grace. Despite Grace’s Jewish upbringing, the humour is however quite far away from Woody Allen’s (despite Bergman being a major plot element in one episode) but manages to avoid the pitfalls of the team-writing method – the certain kiss of death for humour in any sitcom. Whether Will & Grace can be seen as high-brow humour is relatively debatable – it does seem to aim at a more mature audience than Friends and packs in enough high culture references to avoid making those allergic to US sitcoms feel too superior to it.
A NY socialite who uses the job as a way to get out of her penthouse, Karen spends the best of her time slating Grace’s clothing but her high society connections are too valuable for Grace to do without her…
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She is however quite a successful professional running a small interior design company although most of her time seems spent trying to get her personal assistant, Karen (Megan Mullally), to work. Grace (Debra Messing) was Will’s roommate at university – her relationship with men have not been the easiest and with the mid-thirties approaching she’s starting to pine for the relationship into which she can settle for life. His friend, Jack (Sean Hayes) on the other hand seems to have dropped out of society altogether holding down a job seems to be an impossible feat for him due to his innate laziness and if he’s got a masterplan for life, he’s keeping it well hidden.
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The series revolves around four main characters: Will (Eric McCormack) is a relatively well adjusted gay lawyer who lives in a nice apartment in NY. With Michael Douglas, Miguel Ferrer, Harry Connick Jnr, Matt Damon, Woody Harrelson, Cher, Glenn Close and many others jostling at the gates of Will & Grace, NBC must be laughing all the way to the bank… Managing to successfully overcome the Ellen phenomena, Will and Grace is now in its fifth season in the States but has only recently started to be shown in the UK on C4 and rapidly became part of their (deadly) Friday night concotion of American sitcoms… Stars appearing in a series is usually the final proof of the pudding. Although the extras are a little thin on the ground, the image and sound are quite satisfactory and, added bonus, we get it on DVD before the US! Mark Boydell has reviewed the Region 2 release of the 3 DVDs that make up the first season of Will and Grace – the hit NBC sitcom.
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