DVD
Review | Will &
Grace (Series 1 Episodes 16-22)
Written by: Kage
Alan
Film Rating:
A
DVD Special Features: B+
Moving right along here, we have the last disc of the
first season of "Will &
Grace." There's still no word of it receiving a North American
release, so
we'll just rely on our friends overseas to satisfy our craving for the
show.
Maybe they need the money for their economy more than we do anyway. Ready
for the recap? Here it goes.
Will Truman (Eric McCormack, "Holy Man") is a gay private
New York lawyer who shares his apartment with his best friend, Grace
Adler (Debra Messing, "McHale's Navy"), a designer he's
known since college. Both have terrible luck with their
love lives and act as a crutch for each other through all
sorts of situations that come their way. Rounding out the
regular cast of
characters is Karen Walker (Megan Mullally, "Speaking of
Sex") as Grace's
filthy rich, loud, obnoxious, alcohol drinking and pill popping
assistant and
Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes, "Pieces Of April") as Will's
overly flamboyant
gay friend.
The final episodes presented here are "Big Brother Is Coming Part
1," "Big
Brother Is Coming Part 2," "Yours, Mine Or Ours,"
"Alley Cats," "Saving
Grace," "Grace Replaced" and "The Object Of My
Rejection." Some of the
highlights include meeting Will's brother, Jack's reaction to being a
year
older than he thought he was, seeing Will and Grace compete for the
cute guy
who moved in upstairs, watching them try to act less competitive with
their
friends and then make a hysterical comeback at the very end with a
"Chariot's
Of Fire" riff, seeing Will get pimped out so Grace can land a
design
contract, the introduction of Molly Shannon's over-the-top character
named
Val and also the introduction of Rosario (Shelley Morrison,
"Fools Rush In"),
Karen's tough-as-nails maid.
Medusa Pictures presents the show in its gorgeous Full Screen glory. The
transfer is pristine and the audio is equally as good. On
the extras front,
we once again have an animated picture gallery, two more cast
biographies and 10 minutes of clips from the season accompanied by
interviews recorded this year. The cast speaks very highly
of the show's writers and creators, yet
some of them appear to be slightly forcing themselves to say something
positive about their costars. They're not quite buying
what's coming out of
their mouth and neither am I. No show is perfect and most
of them become
like families; dysfunctional to a point. Still, as long as
what they are
putting on the screen works, let them be.
The season's final episode leaves us on a bit of a downer for the two
leads,
only one that could almost be perceived as the story coming full
circle. I
think this might have been done just in case the show didn't get
renewed for
another season. Then too, I could be wrong. In
any case, the final episode
also opens up new avenues to be explored in the next season, which it
does.
What those are, though, will have to wait until the next batch of
discs are
released. Until then, happy watching! For anyone
interested in ordering
copies of the series, the discs are available for sale in Region 2 at
www.blackstar.co.uk. They will NOT play on Region 1 DVD
players unless you have a player that specifically allows you to
access different regions of the
world or unless you have the software on your computer that allows you
to use
your DVDROM drive in the same capacity.
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