Will & Grace (Series 1 Episodes 16-22 DVD)  Series Rating: A
By Kage Alan

Moving right along here, we have the last disc of the first season of “Will & Grace.” The episodes presented here are “Big Brother Is Coming Part 1,” “Big Brother Is Coming Part 2,” “Yours, Mine Or Ours,” “Alley Cats,” “Saving Grace,” “Grace Replaced” and “The Object Of My Rejection.” Some of the highlights include meeting Will’s brother, Jack’s reaction to being a year older than he thought he was, seeing Will and Grace compete for the cute guy who moved in upstairs, watching them try to act less competitive with their friends and then make a hysterical comeback at the very end with a “Chariot’s Of Fire” riff, seeing Will get pimped out so Grace can land a design contract, the introduction of Molly Shannon’s over-the-top character named Val and also the introduction of Rosario (Shelley Morrison, “Fools Rush In”), Karen’s tough-as-nails maid.

Medusa Pictures presents the show in its gorgeous Full Screen glory. The transfer is pristine and the audio is equally as good. On the extras front, we once again have an animated picture gallery, two more cast biographies and 10 minutes of clips from the season accompanied by interviews recorded this year. The cast speaks very highly of the show’s writers and creators, yet some of them appear to be slightly forcing themselves to say something positive about their costars. They’re not quite buying what’s coming out of their mouth and neither am I. No show is perfect and most of them become like families; dysfunctional to a point. Still, as long as what they are putting on the screen works, let them be. For anyone interested in ordering copies of the series, the discs are available for sale in Region 2 at www.blackstar.co.uk. They will NOT play on Region 1 DVD players unless you have a player that specifically allows you to access different regions of the world or unless you have the software on your computer that allows you to use your DVDROM drive in the same capacity.