In less than 24 hours, one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time will make its second debut as the revival of Will & Grace will have finally arrived on NBC. It has been more than 11 years since…
In less than 24 hours, one of the most iconic sitcoms of all time will make its second debut as the revival of Will & Grace will have finally arrived on NBC. It has been more than 11 years since the series finale ran in May of 2006, and no-one ever expected it to return for another run. Yet, the time has come and there are going to be a few changes to the script and not everything that you’ve seen in the past will still be a reality this time around.
This is going to be everything you need to know about the Will & Grace revival before it actually returns to TV.
Please let it be known that there will be spoilers ahead for the original series finale from Will & Grace. If you haven’t seen it yet, stop reading now.
This revival of Will & Grace was going to be a one-off 10-episode thing, but it has since ballooned to a 16-episode first season and a 13-episode second season. That’s at the very least as it could end up doing well enough to go for more than 29 episodes, but that isn’t a bad start.
As expected, the four main cast members are back:
Some supporting cast members from the original run of the series will return as well and that includes:
Shelley Morrison has retired from acting completely and that means Karen’s hilarious maid Rosario will not return as reported by The Hollywood Reporter .
As reported by the NY Times, the season premiere of the revival is pretty much about what the original series was about. Four friends living life and trying to figure out how to love and get by with the new world 11 years since everyone has seen them.
It really doesn’t need much more of an explanation as the original series worked, so, why mess with the formula?
Will and Grace are both single and living together again. Jack lives in the same building as them and is still right across the hall. Karen is back in the mansion and is still dealing with Stan who may be seen one day.
The reviews are now rolling in as critics have had the first look at the revival, and the majority of them are positive which is a great thing.
The simple answer is…yes and no.
In that finale, Will and Grace both ended up having children and drifting apart from one another. They had lost their friendship but ended up coming back around in one another’s lives. 20 years later, their kids ended up going to the same college and eventually ended up married.
Well, you’re going to find out that the majority of all that was a dream as reported by Entertainment Weekly. Leo and Grace are divorced, but they didn’t end up remarrying and don’t have a daughter named Laila. Will is also not married to Vincent and they don’t have a child named Ben.
The creators of the show simply said that they didn’t want Will and Grace to be “either good parents or bad parents. We wanted them to be Will and Grace.”
When it comes to the revival of Will & Grace, fans will need to remember some things and forget a lot of others. It’s not that the creators were trying to destroy and ignore the series finale, but in order to make this new run happen, it was necessary. No-one expected it to be back on the air at any point and since that has now happened, changes needed to be made and blind eyes needed to be turned to keep the laughs rolling along.
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