LIKE SLIPPING into your favourite pair of boxers or snuggling up with Anderson Cooper, the return of Will And Grace is like catching up with a breezy, comforting old friend. Once you adjust to how everyone has weathered the intervening 11 years (ageing like a Twinkie?) and how little everyone’s apartments or sense of style has altered, you can relax into swift popular culture repartee, clumsy slapstick and, in the first episode, clumsier political comment.
Within the first few minutes, the titular power couple of parlour games name-check Caitlyn Jenner, Grindr and Melania Trump to establish their contemporary credentials and provide trigger warnings to any Trump supporters not familiar with the 2016 online US election special that brought our Upper East Side gang back together.