So over the last couple of weeks I watched the penultimate season of Will & Grace on dvd. I often watch latter seasons of shows I give up on this way. And I've got to say that at least going off of this season, I was right to give up on this show. Will and Grace were never interesting, and at this point Jack's boring and Karen's turned into ... a 200 year old drunk robot? Well, it's some kind of gag, but I'm not sure I get it.
What still on occasion saves individual episodes though is the show's never-ending parade of guest stars. They milked that for years. Often the results were yawn-inducing (like Sharon Stone's therapist and Eric Stoltz as a man from Grace's past), but sometimes it actually works. Nothing in season 7 matched the success of "Last Ex to Brooklyn", the high point of season 6, starring Mira Sorvino, but there were some fun turns: Luke Perry as an unrecognizable HGN (the rarest of gays - the hot gay nerd), Lily Tomlin's cruel attorney, and Stuart Townsend's incredibly hot pastry chef. And simply casting Michelle Lee and Chita Rivera was so strange that it was kind of interesting.
The best of the best at this point in the show's run is a recurring character, Blythe Danner's Marilyn. She's great, as appealing as Megan Mullally's character was before she became too self-referential (Karen's still the best of the leads - by far - but she's drifted into the realm of being sometimes more kooky than funny). And knowing that she'll still be around, as will Karen and some interesting walk-ons means I'll still watch season 8 when it's released on dvd.
Posted by armand at December 18, 2007 11:54 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Culture