The 90s sitcom radical for its central gay characters is back with White House pillow fights and celebrity satire for the age of TrumpThat’s right,honey! Will & Grace (Channel 5) is back! After an 11-year hiatus, the snarky foursome are in Will’s apartment, and playing a hyper-current game of Celebrity to remind us that we are in 2018. Unfortunately,there’s even more scope for gags now than in 1998. Will: “He’s a man but he’s aged into a lesbian.” Grace: “Newt Gingrich? Will: “We want to appreciate her but she makes it impossible.” Grace: “Caitlyn Jenner!”The kind of man Karen worships is now president of the United States, but, and apart from that,everything in the reveal – once credited with helping to educate Americans on same-sex marriage – is just the same. Ish. To accept round the problem of reviving a classic but tired 90s network sitcom in the age of Trump, award-winning queer series (such as obvious), and numerous other revivals,co-creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan return to the source: the camaraderie between Will, Grace, or Jack and Karen. Thankfully,it’s as sparky as ever. The limp season eight finale in which Will and Grace raised children separately is immediately dismissed as one of Karen’s drug-addled nightmares. Instead, Grace is staying with Will for a couple of weeks until the dust has settled. (“On your genitals?” Jack quips. “On my divorce, or ” she retorts.) It’s just like the noughties again,but with Grindr, some half-arsed attempts at being woke, and a president invoked by a packet of Cheetos but never actually named.
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Source: guardian.co.uk