Will & Grace Season 3 (2000)
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Will & Grace Season 3 Review
The third season of Will & Grace is pretty much the same when it comes to the quality as the first and second season were. It still has it detractors, but most episodes are a lot of fun.
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“Oh, honey. I got a fake laugh with your name all over it“
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New Will City is an uninspired, slow beginning to the season which never gets momentum and is especially not funny. Fear and Clothing is also too much of an important episode to set up the two living together once again than it is a funny installment.
Husbands and Trophy Wives is honestly highly forgettable and not worth talking about more. Girl Trouble is also pretty flawed and it needed stronger humor. Grace 0, Jack 2000 is pretty much another forgettable episode in this bunch. These first couple of episodes truly were a weak way to start the season.
Love Plus One is the first very good episode of the season which introduces Will to his closeted boyfriend Matthew really well, but it also features a terrific, entertaining Grace part where she is asked to be in a threesome. Jeremy Piven and Patrick Dempsey’s involvement led to a pretty start-studded cast.
Gypsies, Tramps and Weed should have been funnier given the great concept, but still it was a lot of fun seeing Will get worked up about the prophecy that he’ll end up with Jack. Lows in the Mid-Eighties is a particularly fun, funny and charming look at the past where Will and Grace were dating. It’s uncomfortable, but definitely an essential viewing for character backstories.
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Three’s a Crowd, Six Is a Freak Show is only very strong in Grace’s storyline with others being much weaker this time around. Coffee and Commitment is another overly dramatic and not funny enough episode. Swimming Pools… Movie Stars features a terrific Sandra Bernard guest appearance and is overall pretty entertaining.
Crazy in Love and Brothers, A Love Story both offer such a strong, important look into the problems with dating a closeted gay man and this is the kind of dramatic storytelling that works as it’s relevant, emotionally complex and a great showcase of Will and Grace’s moral standpoints. I also really liked the first episode’s goofy subplot where Karen and Jack think Grace is crazy.
My Uncle the Car features a wonderful Karen/Rosario reunion ending while also being funny in Jack thinking he is a black man because his father was black. Cheaters is unfortunately the weakest episode, two-parter actually, of this entire season as it’s pretty soapy, uninteresting and unfunny.
Mad Dogs and Average Men is solid and particularly memorable for Karen’s emotional moment with Grace. Poker? I Don’t Even Like Her is not particularly entertaining in Will and Grace poker story, but it’s hilarious in Jack and Karen’s one where the humor surrounding cosmetic surgeries is fantastic.
An Old-Fashioned Piano Party is moving with Grace fearing Will will forget about her eventually, but it’s very funny with Jack writing sexy novels which Karen finds super hot and gets horny. The Young and the Tactless is absolutely hilarious in Karen’s mother-in-law who’s an old woman visiting a gay bar and upon the realization being horrified by it. So funny.
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Alice Doesn’t Lisp Here Anymore is a pretty good episode which ends so sweetly with Jack and Karen’s friendship emphasis. Last of the Really Odd Lovers finally sees Grace admit to Will that she’s dating Nathan. I have to say that I loved seeing Woody Harrelson in this season as he’s such a great actor and was ultimately a good fit for this role. Sons and Lovers is a particularly moving, important two-parter for both Grace who starts a serious relationship and Jack who finds out his father is dead.
Overall, I liked this third season quite a bit despite its very clunky start, but the second half is particularly strong with a nice string of quality, funny and important episodes.
Worst Episodes: New Will City, Girl Trouble and Cheaters.
Best Episodes: Lows in the Mid-Eighties, Crazy in Love and Brothers, A Love Story.
