Will & Grace strode into its third season with the kind of cultural cache TV executives would kill for. These 22 episodes are littered with hip...... more

Will & Grace strode into its third season with the kind of cultural cache TV executives would kill for. These 22 episodes are littered with hip celebrity guest stars, from Ellen DeGeneres to Sandra Bernhard to Cher, and the performances of the core quartet--Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Karen Mullally, and Sean Hayes--became more comically exaggerated as they risked pushing their characters (already riddled with neuroses and snippiness) into the realm of caricatures. But due to clever writing and confident, full-throttle performances, it doesn't matter. Even when Jack and Karen's high-handed behavior go beyond anything recognizably human, audiences love them all the more; no matter how high-strung Will and Grace become, their well-honed rapport keeps them engaging and lovable. Wisely, the writers swiftly returned the pair to roommate status and got Grace out of her ongoing relationship with Will's former boss (Gregory Hines), bringing the show's focus back on how the pair sublimate their love lives with the cozy intimacy of friendship--one particularly strong episode flashes back to how they first met in college, replete with godawful 80s fashion. But, as ever, it's Jack and Karen who up the comic ante; Mullally and Hayes are shamelessly self-absorbed and shallow, exploiting and abusing everyone around them. Jack forces Will to play Cyrano, feeding him pick-up lines over his salesperson headset; Karen, worried that some experimental plastic surgery might turn out badly, manipulates another socialite into getting it first. Not all plotlines fly--Grace gets into a relationship with an obnoxious neighbor (Woody Harrelson) that never becomes more than stunt-casting--but the racy wit flies fast and furious, the slapstick is topnotch, and Karen's hairdo towers magnificently. --Bret Fetzer

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Title: WILL GRACE LET THE MUSIC OU SKU: DV001206940V Product Category: Music Binding: Audio CD Artist: Various Format: Soundtrack Label: Sony...... more

Title: WILL GRACE LET THE MUSIC OU SKU: DV001206940V Product Category: Music Binding: Audio CD Artist: Various Format: Soundtrack Label: Sony Music Release Date: 13/04/2005 Discs: 1 Height: 14.00 mm Width: 126.00 mm Length: 141.00 mm Weight: 82.00 grams M

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director james burrows ean 5050582829136 leading role debra messing leading role eric mccormack leading role jack mcfarland leading role karen walker rating 12a 12 title will and grace series 7 complete dvd ean 5050582829136 title will grace the complete series 7 sku dv 001229710 v product category dvds binding dvd region code 2 format pal label universal pictures uk release date 26 12 2011 discs 4 height 15 00 mm width 138 00 mm length 180 00 mm weight 82 00 grams language english manufacturer

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director james burrows ean 5050582829099 leading role debra messing leading role jack mcfarland leading role karen walker rating 12a 12 title will and grace series 3 complete dvd ean 5050582829099 title will grace the complete series 3 sku dv 001229707 v product category dvds binding dvd region code 2 format pal label universal pictures uk release date 26 12 2011 discs 4 height 15 00 mm width 138 00 mm length 180 00 mm weight 82 00 grams language english manufacturer universal pictures uk publis

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director james burrows ean 5050582829211 leading role debra messing leading role eric mccormack leading role jack mcfarland leading role karen walker rating 12a 12 title will and grace series 8 complete dvd ean 5050582829211 title will grace the complete series 8 sku dv 001229712 v product category dvds binding dvd region code 2 format pal label universal pictures uk release date 26 12 2011 discs 4 height 15 00 mm width 138 00 mm length 180 00 mm weight 82 00 grams language english manufacturer

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Hit American sitcom Will and Grace is as perky as Friends and as wittily urbane as Frasier. The premise concerns Will (Eric McCormack), a mildly...... more

Hit American sitcom Will and Grace is as perky as Friends and as wittily urbane as Frasier. The premise concerns Will (Eric McCormack), a mildly uptight lawyer who agrees to have as a flatmate his best friend, interior designer Grace (Debra Messing). Their relationship has all the hallmarks of lovers--emotional dependency, little things that get on each others' nerves, strong mutual interests and volcanic arguments. The only snag is that while Grace is straight, Will is gay. Though not shy of poking sharp fun at that situation, Will and Grace is among sitcom's most potent and sophisticated antidotes to homophobia. Though initially a little too pleased with its own camp pertness, the show grows and grows on you with successive episodes, finally becoming indispensable. It also benefits from secondary characters Jack (Sean P Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally), also gay and straight respectively, both outrageously and hilariously irresponsible characters: he a free spirit and freeloader, she's "working" as Grace's assistant even though she doesn't need the money, having married it. Despite its diamond and rapid-fire punchlines, Will and Grace conveys enough sense of the main characters' lovelorn predicament to prevent it from becoming too cute. --David Stubbs

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Will & Grace strode into its third season with the kind of cultural cache TV executives would kill for. These 22 episodes are littered with hip...... more

Will & Grace strode into its third season with the kind of cultural cache TV executives would kill for. These 22 episodes are littered with hip celebrity guest stars, from Ellen DeGeneres to Sandra Bernhard to Cher, and the performances of the core quartet--Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Karen Mullally, and Sean Hayes--became more comically exaggerated as they risked pushing their characters (already riddled with neuroses and snippiness) into the realm of caricatures. But due to clever writing and confident, full-throttle performances, it doesn't matter. Even when Jack and Karen's high-handed behavior go beyond anything recognizably human, audiences love them all the more; no matter how high-strung Will and Grace become, their well-honed rapport keeps them engaging and lovable. Wisely, the writers swiftly returned the pair to roommate status and got Grace out of her ongoing relationship with Will's former boss (Gregory Hines), bringing the show's focus back on how the pair sublimate their love lives with the cozy intimacy of friendship--one particularly strong episode flashes back to how they first met in college, replete with godawful 80s fashion. But, as ever, it's Jack and Karen who up the comic ante; Mullally and Hayes are shamelessly self-absorbed and shallow, exploiting and abusing everyone around them. Jack forces Will to play Cyrano, feeding him pick-up lines over his salesperson headset; Karen, worried that some experimental plastic surgery might turn out badly, manipulates another socialite into getting it first. Not all plotlines fly--Grace gets into a relationship with an obnoxious neighbor (Woody Harrelson) that never becomes more than stunt-casting--but the racy wit flies fast and furious, the slapstick is topnotch, and Karen's hairdo towers magnificently. --Bret Fetzer

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