Will & Grace is a comedy about four friends who love each other, yet don’t always agree with each other’s choices, as in real life. The quartet’s bond is as strong as ever in this return episode. The episode doesn’t venture from its usual shenanigans and social commentary about people and causes that matter. It’s no mistake that the season premiere refers to the current occupant in The White House, and then temporarily relocates the main characters to D.C. to act out their personal and political prejudices. I could have done without the laugh track, or if not laugh tracks, some of the intended jokes and jabs didn’t hit their mark with me. Having worked together for many years, the actors stepped back into familiar roles with evident ease. The sometimes uncomfortable truth is the foundation of the best comedies and satires. The first episode will go down in the books as having made its political commentary in the wake of the November 2016 presidential election. Grace left her decorating mark in The Oval Office, and that’s sure to enrage the majority of mainstream conservative Republicans, should any of them dare to watch the show. I imagine next week the show will return to the more familiar topics and situations that made it an eventual success the first time around.
