Will & Grace: Whatever Happened to Baby Gin? (2006)
Season 8, Episode 22
10/10
The show really ended here - harshly but brilliantly
15 March 2023
This episode was brilliantly written. It deals with the reality of the situation that the comedy stems from. I.e. As Vince says to Will 'When are you gonna stop playing house with this woman (and commit to me)?' Seen from twenty years distance it's of it's time. Nowadays, gay men may feel less inclined to attempt to create such a family because the possibility of a family as described by Vince (two guys raising a child that doesn't look like them) seems more possible. The fundamental truth of the relationship between will & Grace is that it was always substitutional. She was always gonna flee if a straight man beckoned her, and Will would always have lacked the courage to break free from her. I loved the show, and Debra Messing is a brilliant actress, but as a Gay man, I knew she was Wills problem not his solution (the writers knew it too and showed us that here). I enjoyed the reboots etc. But this was the real ending of the original convent from a narrative pov.
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