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Where There's A Will There's A Gay: 'Will & Grace' Revival Will Ignore Its Final Episode

Some 11 years after we waved goodbye to our dysfunctional friends, the network is bringing back Will & Grace for a new run of 10 episodes.

By Tom ChapmanPublished 6 years ago 2 min read
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'Will & Grace' [Credit: NBC]

Crafting a season finale is no easy feat, and while the likes of The Sopranos literally cut to black, Breaking Bad broke our hearts, and Lost left us feeling a little like its namesake, NBC's Will & Grace seemed to get it right. Coming to an end in 2006 with a sickly sweet swansong, there was no reason to come back to our New York neurotics — until now. Some 11 years after we waved goodbye to our dysfunctional friends, the network is bringing back Will & Grace for a new run of 10 episodes.

Expect Karen to continue her boozing, Jack to keep his sassmouth, and Rosario, oh, all the Rosario we can handle. While there will obviously be those that are asking how and why the show should return, it sounds like the revival will be paving over one very important piece of history and hitting the reset button ahead of Season 9.

The kids are alright.

If you remember the two-part finale, dubiously dubbed "The Finale," it did that thing that so many shows like to do and skipped ahead to the future a'la Desperate Housewives. The strangely depressing climax revealed that our titular duo had grown apart, settled down, and finally got the families they had secretly wanted. However, just like Roseanne retconning that awkward Season 9, Will & Grace will be ignoring its future flash. Co-creator Max Mutchnick told Entertainment Weekly that the perfect little bubble just didn't suit our sassy singletons:

"We spent most of our time trying to figure out what would be the way to make the show the best version of itself coming back after 11 years. That finale really caused us a lot of grief. You write a finale because a show is over. You never think that it’s coming back again,”

Some may be slightly vexed at decision to gloss over the finale, but most will undoubtedly see it as a Godsend to return the characters to how we love them best. Co-creator David Kohan went on to reveal why they axed the family ties:

“When the decision was made to bring the series back, we were like, well, we left them with kids, right? And if they have children, then it has to be about them being parents, ‘cause presumably it would be a priority in their lives. And if it wasn’t a priority in their lives, then they’re still parents, they’re just bad parents, right? We frankly did not want to see them being either good parents or bad parents. We wanted them to be Will and Grace.”

Although Harry Connick Jr.'s Leo will return in some form as Grace's beau, their respective kids have been well and truly given the axe. However, will the specter of what could've been still hang over the show like the Ghost of Christmas Future? Who knows, perhaps the premiere will reference the flashforward as some sort of nightmarish dream before Will goes and rustles them up some breakfast mimosas.

Giving us back the tragic Will and Grace that we have come to love is the only way that the revival would work. If you look over at other shows like Friends, a reunion where they all meet at Central Perk to talk about changing diapers and Joey's Oscar nominations just wouldn't feel right. Returning on September 28, and with both Will and Grace being left single and childless, quite frankly, I couldn't be happier!

(Source: Entertainment Weekly)

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Tom Chapman

Tom is a Manchester-based writer with square eyes and the love of a good pun. Raised on a diet of Jurassic Park, this ’90s boy has VHS flowing in his blood. No topic is too big for this freelancer by day, crime-fighting vigilante by night.

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