Will & Grace mid-season finale recap: The 5 best burns in Season 10, Episode 8
By Reed Gaudens
Matt Bomer joins Will & Grace for a fall finale full of switched personalities and strip club schemes. Let’s recap with the five best quotes!
What will we do without Will & Grace until it returns post-Brooklyn Nine-Nine in January? The midseason finale’s early Christmas gift of three incredible guest stars all the more difficult to temporarily say goodbye. But on the other hand, the sitcom spoils us rotten with a cameo from Adam Rippon, a return visit from Minnie Driver, and the first appearance of Matt Bomer.
In the fall finale, Grace and Karen take an adventure to a strip club, where they try by any means necessary to coerce important evidence from Lorraine Finster (Minnie Driver). You know it’s a cold day in hell when Karen Walker turns to a frenemy for help. Meanwhile, Jack guides Will through a date with a famous news anchor (Matt Bomer), but their methods soon turn into madness. Let’s recap the latest episode of Will & Grace with the gang’s five sickest burns!
1. “I rest my face, Judge Moody.”
Will and Jack meet up at their usual coffee spot, have a run in with a sassy barista played by Olympian Adam Rippon (bring him back!), and tangle over Will’s new glasses. While trying on and roasting Will’s glasses, news anchor McCoy Whitman (guest star Matt Bomer) walks in, and Jack fills Will in on his brand of “high-end homo,” as Jack calls him. McCoy has a taste for fun and frothy men rather than intellects like Will, who tries on a frothier persona and catches the attention of McCoy. Before long, Will and Jack have traded dispositions and Will’s got a date.
2. “As the men in London call the space between her legs, the British Open.”
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Karen takes a call from her divorce lawyer, and to Grace’s horror, it’s riddled with racially insensitive language. But for Karen, her politically incorrect speech is the least of her worries. She discovers that because Stan has photographic evidence of her affair with Malcolm, she will receive significantly less money in her alimony. Not willing to go down without a fight, Karen marches down to the strip club with Grace to find the one person who can provide evidence of Stan’s affair: Lorraine Finster (guest star Minnie Driver).
3. “Your front’s not that great either. But it’s good enough for a Tuesday night.”
While Karen’s off showing a bar mitzvah kid a good time (what can we say, she was on a problematic roll tonight), it’s up to Grace to talk Lorraine, who’s performing on stage, into helping Karen out. Surprisingly, Lorraine doesn’t respond in kind to Grace’s feminist plea. Instead, she forces Grace to put her feminism where her mouth is and perform in exchange for photos of her affair with Stan. Let’s just say Grace doesn’t stumble upon a hidden talent, but Karen manages to sweet talk and lap dance her way into a heftier settlement.
4. “I have a hag. We spend too much time together. It’s sad.”
After Jack realizes that McCoy will see right through Will’s fancy meal and high-brow apartment, they whip up a whole convoluted plan for Will and McCoy’s date. Jack is Will and Will is Jack, but Will’s apartment is Jack’s and Jack’s mannerisms are Will’s. In suggesting that Will pull from a “dim” person he may know, Jack never considered he would be the best model. When Jack picks up on Will’s imitation, he’s weirdly flattered. But he’s not too flattered to add some spice to his Will imitation.
5. “You dumb b–ch.”
Like all ruses, Will and Jack’s crumbles before their very eyes. As soon as McCoy starts talking politics with Jack (who’s supposed to Will, remember), he quickly understands that he’s not a lawyer and that Will isn’t “intellectual applesauce.” McCoy calls Jack “the idiot,” but Will defends his best friend and calls the entitled news anchor on his insecurities. But don’t assume Jack wanted Will to defend him. In fact, he leaves Will with three pointed parting words after tanking his chance to sleep with McCoy to defend him. Shame on Will? Shame on McCoy, who will be back with a new attitude in the new year.
Which one-liner was your favorite? Let us know in the comments!
Will & Grace returns Jan. 31, 2019 at 9:30/8:30c on NBC.