Monday, June 05, 2006

The End of Will & Grace

For the most part it was a strong eight year run for this show. It had lost a lot of it momentum in the last few seasons and the comedy seemed forced a lot of the time. In it's final season Will & Grace made a decent bounce back. The season still had some down spots but for the most part it was probably the strongest of the last three and maybe even four seasons.

It was nice that they cut back on the guest stars this season and when they did use them they actually had good parts written for them. It wasn't just that some big name wanted to be on the show so they gave them a part that wasn't right for them. Taye Diggs guest starring as Will's boyfriend was probably the best guest star of the season. It's to bad they chose such a stupid storyline for him. For a show with two main characters that are gay it was pretty lame to be Canada bashing.

At first I wasn't really liking the idea of Grace ending up with Leo but, the truth is his cheating was kind of a self fulfilling proficy for Grace. Not that, that makes it right but, that's really not the point. Aside from Will, Leo is the only man who can really deal with all of Grace's craziness so what the hell. Yes, they could have found a new man for Grace but, clearly they didn't want to spend a huge chunk of the season developing a new storyline.

Will ending up with Vince was the best possible outcome for him. They had him and Vince break up over some really stupid stuff and it was nice that they got them back together. It was also good that Vince was back to being a cop. With the exception of all his crap of using the evidence locker as his own personal store. That was really not funny. Will was damn lucky though that Vince took him back after leaving him to be with Grace and the baby.

It was really stupid of them to bring Karen's husband back only to have them get a divorce in the end. And that crap with him really having no money. What I want to know is who at that show watches The O.C. and actually thought that was a good storyline to copy? I did love Grace's dream when Karen and Rosario were a couple. That probably made me laugh the most of the entire episode.

Jack having hook up with Beverly Leslie was pretty funny. It would have been nice if Jack had, had a future more of his own making with his acting or something but, truth is it wouldn't have been a finale if there hadn't been an appearance by Beverly Leslie. Although in regards to Beverly's death I must now ask who the hell at Will & Grace watches Las Vegas and thought they way they did away with Lara Flynn Boyle's character was a good idea to duplicate?

The best part about those two storylines is that we all knew that Jack, Karen, and Rosario would end up together in the end. And how perfect was it that they did the touched belly buttons again.

And while I would have prefered to not see a finale where Will and Grace went all those years with little to no contact I did like that their kids ended up together in the end.

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