Will & Grace is the same show. As the show moves away from the political jokes of the last season, it gets better because the show now focuses on the characters lives, not political cheap shots. Now the funny lines, such as Will telling Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) that he’ll tell a plastic surgeon to “knock off knocking off her knockers” are clever commentary on the other characters actions.
The other thing that has changed is Will Truman (Eric McCormack) and Grace Alder (Debra Messing) continue to get more and more cynical as they get older, which is where David Schwimmer’s character, Noah aka West Side Curmudgeon character comes in.
Will and Grace happen to be some of his biggest fans because he insults everyone and will go on tirades about how people should say thank you when someone holds the door for them, which is how we’re introduced to him at Grace’s party for her President of the New York Society of Interior Designers campaign. He then asks Grace for her pamphlet so that he can make fun of it on Twitter, forcing her to beg him to take it down. Over the course of the episode, Grace meets Noah in a diner and works him down.
While the promotion for Will & Grace Season 10 gave away the fact that David Schwimmer will appear on multiple episodes as Grace’s love interest. Noah’s first episode didn’t make that clear until the very end when Grace figures out Noah googled her. If you were expecting Ross from Friends to date Grace, so that your fan fiction fantasies became a reality, you will be disappointed. Noah’s not a good person. He will break Grace’s heart with one insult that goes too far.
As for Karen and Jack, Karen’s not up to much these days. However, Jack is engaged to Estefan (Brian Jordan Alvarez), who he is desperate to keep. Jack contemplates plastic surgery. Instead, he opts to apply too much numbing cream. The cream leaves him unable to speak or move his hands. Jack asks Will to read the bottle, so that he could find out how long the symptoms will last and how to counteract them. Will explains that a banana will help Jacks’ tongue numbness. Then, Will proceeds to watch Jack smack it to mush and lick it off the table, which is an episode highlight.
Will & Grace is a show where the more things change the more they stay the same. The characters are terrible, self-absorbed people, who only get worse as they age, but their favorite topic has always been themselves. Unlike the original, where the writers had to tone down some aspects of Will and Jack’s personalities, the writers are now less concerned with making Will and Jack likable gay men and can fully realize them as people. This results in writing that gets stronger each episode. It also makes it clearer that these aren’t people you’d want to know in real life no matter how amusing their antics are.
Rating: 9 out of 10
