Will & Grace

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Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 21, 1998
Season #: 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 34 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 34
  3. Negative: 4 out of 34
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  1. smijatov
    Aug 12, 2010
    8
    A funny show that uses its cast to its fullest, but the screenplay writers are the deserving starts of the show. Very witty, very entertaining it leaves you with wanting and needing more and more. For a first season it is excellent and it makes great space for future seasons to come.
    Debra Messing, as Grace, is excellent and is definitely the best one of the cast. Eric McCormack is the    A funny show that uses its cast to its fullest, but the screenplay writers are the deserving starts of the show. Very witty, very entertaining it leaves you with wanting and needing more and more. For a first season it is excellent and it makes great space for future seasons to come.
    Debra Messing, as Grace, is excellent and is definitely the best one of the cast. Eric McCormack is the underused potential, as Will, but that is mainly due to his character - he's just not that funny.
    Sean Hayes' Jack is brilliantly funny and refreshing as an over-the-top gay man. Mullally's transformation as Karen Walker is quite interesting and one can see that the character was being developed as the show went on and as the audience responded to her different character traits - she will definitely be much different and more prominent in the later seasons, for Mullally manages to take the best of her character and channel it brilliantly!    … Expand
  2. matrix19
    Nov 27, 2011
    9
    Just simply amazing!!! thing i love the most about that tv show is that they laugh at everything and everyone!!!The cast couldn't be better- will always stay as one of my favourite
  3. joef123
    Nov 24, 2012
    1
    I defiantly didn't like the first season, watch the pilot, so you can know the characters. Then start season 2 where it gets better.
  4. Trigger1231
    Sep 29, 2017
    0
    I turned it off and stopped future recordings. I live poilitics 24/7 and wanted to escape into a light-hearted comedy. Instead, the writers brought poitics into the script! No thank you. The characters timing, delivery was good but the script ruined it!
  5. ItsRaininMen
    Jun 20, 2013
    7
    Will and Grace is a good show- it's funny, the characters are fun, and, it's good to have shows with gay characters, considering we are still living in a time where homophobia is lurking everywhere. However, one thing that bothers me is how, the characters are fun on the show, but, in real life, I'd honestly find these people snooty and annoying. The references also feel obscure, makingWill and Grace is a good show- it's funny, the characters are fun, and, it's good to have shows with gay characters, considering we are still living in a time where homophobia is lurking everywhere. However, one thing that bothers me is how, the characters are fun on the show, but, in real life, I'd honestly find these people snooty and annoying. The references also feel obscure, making the viewer feel left out of a lot of jokes if they aren't especially well read.… Expand
  6. Napleswag
    May 22, 2017
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing acting, wry wiring, secondary actors slapstickly funny and the cast & crew connects carefreely and comically for shows filled with belly laughs and guffaws! Jokes are in context with the show and each actor gives audience their own hillarious back stories, We enjoy the narcisist, the martyr, the happy drinker and hopeful. Have fun choosin!

    Napleswag@aol.com    … Expand

Awards & Rankings

5
#5 Best TV Season of 1998
4
#4 Most Discussed TV Season of 1998
5
#5 Most Shared TV Season of 1998

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 21
  3. Negative: 0 out of 21
  1. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: David Zurawik
    Jul 9, 2013
    88
    I like this show a lot. [21 Sep 1998]
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Jul 9, 2013
    80
    If you're looking for sexual tension amid the laugh track, or social and political point-making between the punchlines, then "Will & Grace" may not work for you. It's a sitcom that has the potential to prove to prime time that attractions between adults are not always rooted in lust. [21 Sep 1998]
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Phil Rosenthal
    Jul 9, 2013
    75
    "Will & Grace" so far is sophisticated and funny. [21 Sep 1998]
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