‘Will & Grace’ Is Back.

Monday morning.

The kids don’t have school today because the schools have a professional development day. Which means I’m home with them while Kates attends meetings all day.

Right now, the kids are watching Nickelodeon. Which means I get to have some time reading and writing.

This piece about “Will & Grace” ran in The New York Times over the weekend, and I am laughing out loud just imagining how the characters will act in today’s “Age of Rage.”

Count me and Kates as viewers who will “gobble whole … At a time of political upheaval and civil unrest, liberal network programmers are betting that — like themselves — the masses are wistful for the Bill Clinton 1990s.”

I loved seeing the cast reunite for last year’s election video and I about jumped out of my chair when I read that NBC was bringing the series back. Shows like “Will & Grace,” “Friends,” “Frasier” and “Everybody Loves Raymond” helped me laugh my way through college. Although reruns are plentiful, having “Will & Grace” back on primetime will be a thankful sort-of escape to simpler times.

And speaking of “Friends,” the show is helping Latin players in Major League Baseball perfect their English. Who knew!?

Good-bye Will & Grace

Good stuff. And yet another era finished ...

This morning some critics are berading last night's 'Will & Grace' finale for it's lack of wit, it's sometimes dragging plot and moments that didn't flow ...

I say: who cares. ... It was the series finale. Do whatever you want! Have fun with it!!

... Yeah, I'll admit the finale wasn't as fast paced and laugh-out-loud funny as past shows, and at the beginning, with a bald Will and an insanely huge Grace, I wondered where the heck this one was going ...

But in the end ... I liked it. A lot. It was satisfying... the storyline was somewhat innovative, I thought, compared to other recent series finales, in that it didn't wrap up the characters' lives with a nice little bow. Rather it unfolded in a series of snippets showing Will & Grace as their lives progressed in the future, they found healthy relationships, had kids and as destiny would have it, their kids got married. ... Cute.

Jack and Karen's duet, no matter how out of place it was in the show, was truly 'Unforgettable' ... and how could you not smile at the last scene of the gang sharing a toast at the bar as aging friends and then setting their glasses back on the bar looking as young as they appeared eight years ago when it all started -- with Queen's 'You're My Best Friend' playing in the background ...

... and how about that bang-bang ER finale!?!?!

Good stuff.

Good reads...
a ‘Will & Grace’ ends on a high note
a Comedy broke ground but cast treaded lightly
a A graceful exit for Debra Messing
a Say good night, Gracie