Will & Grace has finally returned to the small screen after 11 years.
The iconic sitcom ended in 2006 with Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) drifting apart and living separate lives – with Will and his husband Vince raising their son Ben, while Grace had a daughter named Laila with her husband Leo.
And while the time jump showed Will and Grace eventually became best pals again, that decades long separation proved to be too difficult for producers to bring into the revival – thankfully.
Executive producer/creator Max Mutchnick previously told Entertainment Weekly:
“We spent most of our time trying to figure out what would be the way to make the show the best version of itself coming back after 11 years.
“That finale really caused us a lot of grief. You write a finale because a show is over. You never think that it’s coming back again.”
But fans were left wondering how producers planned to move past the controversial season finale without it being too awkward or obvious.
Turns out, they were hoping for a little bit of “forgive and forget” from viewers, as they chalked it up to being one of Karen’s boozy and pharmaceutical induced fantasies.
Here's how #WillAndGrace explained away its controversial 2006 "series finale" pic.twitter.com/gVWfHH65NS
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) September 29, 2017
The hotly anticipated series’ revival has been receiving rave reviews since it premiered earlier this week.
And in even better news for Will & Grace fans, the has already been picked up for a season two – with the original series order for season one getting an additional two episodes.
