Will and Grace: Series 2 (Episodes 5-8) [DVD]

Amazon.co.uk Review 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 one between lovers--emotional dependency, little things that get on each other's 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's a free spirit and freeloader, she's "working" as Grace's assistant even though she doesn't need the money, having married some. Despite its diamond and rapid-fire punch lines, Will and Grace conveys enough sense of the lovelorn predicament of the main characters to prevent it becoming too cute. --David Stubbs Product Description Episodes 5 to 8 from the second season of the popular US sitcom. In 'Polk Defeats Truman' Will drops all his other clients in order to focus on Harlin, but Harlin has a surprise for him. 'To Serve and Disinfect' sees Will accept a job as a waiter, only to find that he will be serving dinner to some of his former legal associates. 'Homo for the Holidays' has Will and Grace shocked to discover that Jack's mother, who has come for a visit, does not know he is gay. Finally, in 'Terms of Employment', Grace hires Will to sue one of her clients.