Like so many I was very excited when I heard W&G was being picked up, but I had some reservations because it felt like all of the story lines were told. And I was right. Eleven years later, all four are still stuck. Stuck in their lives, in their careers and in the same time of age when the show stopped.
Jack and Karen were such fun characters, crazy and over the top, but they balanced well against Will and Grace. You'd think they would mellow, being older, not ever being boring or normal, but not as wild as 11 years ago. Matured maybe, but without losing their wit and quirkiness. On the contrary, they're just plain annoying and stressful now. I sometimes wanted to shout like: O please don't be so childish and ridiculous. To me, it's just not believable that 11 years later, both of them just stayed the same, hyper and loud people. And maybe that was fun 11 years ago, but today I'd like to think that we moved away from the gay stereotype that Jack used to be.
That really goes for Will and Grace as well. They are so boring now, I don't give a hoot for Grace's career as an interior decorator. (decorating the oval room when you're just a company of 3 or 4 people, yeah right... that makes her successful). In one episode Grace even uses Will's gayness as a bribe for getting a job decorating 15 hotels. Well, if it were the other way around (a guy setting up his female business partner with a client to get a job) it would be all over the place. But hey, when you're a woman and you play the gay-card, it's not so bad - and this comes from a woman saying this. Will is no better. OK, so maybe his relationships weren't that successful, but that doesn't mean he has to constantly look for quick, meaningless affairs. I would have liked him by now to have been in a meaningful monogamous relationship (as in, you know, would have been a nice change to the series). But no.
I got tired really soon of all politics and references to today's political climate, the US president, Melania, etc etc... I don't watch comedy shows to get that thrown in my face ALL the time, and I mean this time it's literally present in almost every scene.
So yes, greatly disappointed that the producers, writers and actors didn't take the chance to make this show relevant to 2017. I aged 11 years, but the show and the characters clearly didn't. It's just not relevant anymore. Won't be watching it anymore because after 5/6 episodes it didn't get any better.