You probably missed Will & Grace last night. That’s cool … the sitcom format is dead. However, last night’s episode was Carmela Soprano’s sitcom debut. And Chloe Sevigny played her lover. So it was more entertaining than usual.
Best friends Will (the asexual one) and Grace (the pregnant one who hides behind couches) decide to expand their business of rehabiliting apartments to New York’s east side. They run into lesbian real-estate mavens Edie Falco and Chloe Sevigny, who don’t like Will & Grace invading their territory. Chloe ends up making out with Will, Carmela Soprano puts the moves on Grace, and Vincent Gallo is there filming the whole thing. (Vincent Gallo thing = not really true.)
Here was the great close at the end-credit crawl:
Edie (to Will & Grace): Remember, I don’t want to see you anywhere near the East Side.
Chloe: YEEEEAH!
Edie: I don’t like you butch.
[They exit.]
Grace: That was fun. I kinda liked being a lesbian.
Will: Yeah. Me too.
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Really, it was just depressing to watch.
Will & Grace depressing? You must be confusing it with Extreme Makeover.
Dude, the sitcom is NOT dead. Not so long as Arrested Development is on the air, anyway.
To be perfectly honestly, I haven’t given Arrested Development a fair shot. A lot of people seem to like it. Maybe I’ll Tivo it.
The new Jason Shwartzman jawn seems promising too (it has Stereogum-fave Zooey Deschanel).
And if you count “The Office” as a sitcom, then yes, the format is certainly NOT dead.
Is Zooey going to be regular cast member on the Max Fisher’s new show?
*spoiler*
They broke up at the end of episode #1