An Open Letter to Max Mutchnick - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

lieferic · 05-04-2004, 01:56 PM

Dear Max Mutchnick:

Since you are the gay producer of Will & Grace, I am addressing a wish for the final season. Your show has been a success story in sitcom history. You were the first to introduce two main characters that were gay. The show has been awarded many prizes from the gay establishment, however the show has grown old. The promises of Will getting into a relationship have all been false hopes. Jack has never grown up and sometimes borders on the obscene stereotype. This gay show has never been about gays, it has always been about straight people and their lives. Your season finale is proof of that statement. This past year in the news was all about gay people wanting to marry and this government threatening to pass an amendment to make gay people second class citizens forever. The writers of this show than used marriage to heterosexuals as the season finale. Why would gay people want to watch this show anymore?

Gays are laughed at on a regular basis on TV. I hope that you can write a comedy with Will & Grace so the people are laughing with us instead of at us. Kevin Williamson the head writer for Dawson’s Creek and a gay man himself was there in the beginning of the series and then left. He came back and wrote the series finale for Dawson’s Creek. The series finale was probably the best episode of that long running series. Why? He gave their gay characters a life. I remember sitting down to watch a program that I had no intention of watching it through, The first scene was Jack being pulled over by a Cop. The Cop told Jack that he was speeding,,,and a pause,,,and the Cop leaned in and kissed Jack. That scene got my attention and I stayed with the show for the next 2 hours, Williamson gave life to two characters that were so boring during the series run. It was fantastic and Jack and the Cop were a couple and one of the other characters died and she wished that Jack would raise her daughter. It was too bad that the series had to end before the network and the producers were brave enough to show gay people with lives.

I wish that Will & Grace could have that final season. Not just one episode. That you could write a story arc from the beginning of the season with Will finally finding that someone special and follow through the season to a fantastic series finale. Gay people have this gay humor and wit about them and you could write all that into the show. A rebirth for Will & Grace, a show that really made a difference.

JD2635 · 05-04-2004, 02:13 PM

WELL SAID!!!

I want W&G's series finale next year to have such good chrismatics as it was in the beginning. We need to have a strong finale to this gerat show as well as That '70s Show, King of the Hill and Everybody Loves Raymond. These shows are the meaning of great TV.

spookystarbuck · 05-24-2004, 05:11 AM

Wow - moving peace of writing there!
Well said!

hewlsmw · 05-31-2004, 09:17 AM

I think they should DEFINATELY have Will meet someone and get married!!! That would be wonderful!!! You're always rooting for him and it never happens!....

05-04-2004, 01:56 PM	#1
lieferic Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Apr 01, 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 8	An Open Letter to Max Mutchnick Dear Max Mutchnick: Since you are the gay producer of Will & Grace, I am addressing a wish for the final season. Your show has been a success story in sitcom history. You were the first to introduce two main characters that were gay. The show has been awarded many prizes from the gay establishment, however the show has grown old. The promises of Will getting into a relationship have all been false hopes. Jack has never grown up and sometimes borders on the obscene stereotype. This gay show has never been about gays, it has always been about straight people and their lives. Your season finale is proof of that statement. This past year in the news was all about gay people wanting to marry and this government threatening to pass an amendment to make gay people second class citizens forever. The writers of this show than used marriage to heterosexuals as the season finale. Why would gay people want to watch this show anymore? Gays are laughed at on a regular basis on TV. I hope that you can write a comedy with Will & Grace so the people are laughing with us instead of at us. Kevin Williamson the head writer for Dawson’s Creek and a gay man himself was there in the beginning of the series and then left. He came back and wrote the series finale for Dawson’s Creek. The series finale was probably the best episode of that long running series. Why? He gave their gay characters a life. I remember sitting down to watch a program that I had no intention of watching it through, The first scene was Jack being pulled over by a Cop. The Cop told Jack that he was speeding,,,and a pause,,,and the Cop leaned in and kissed Jack. That scene got my attention and I stayed with the show for the next 2 hours, Williamson gave life to two characters that were so boring during the series run. It was fantastic and Jack and the Cop were a couple and one of the other characters died and she wished that Jack would raise her daughter. It was too bad that the series had to end before the network and the producers were brave enough to show gay people with lives. I wish that Will & Grace could have that final season. Not just one episode. That you could write a story arc from the beginning of the season with Will finally finding that someone special and follow through the season to a fantastic series finale. Gay people have this gay humor and wit about them and you could write all that into the show. A rebirth for Will & Grace, a show that really made a difference.

05-24-2004, 05:11 AM	#3
spookystarbuck Kiss my Ass! Occasional Poster Join Date: Oct 21, 2003 Location: ENGLAND! Posts: 59	Wow - moving peace of writing there! Well said!
	__________________ "We have a very unorthodox flirtation on the show and we have it in real life too. I mean, if he walked in right now, he'd grab my boob and start dry-humping me. And it's mutual. We've confused many people on the set because there is not one part of my body that Sean has not touched, nor me his. And I can't explain it-it's just our way of relating. I mean, if we were presented to the queen of England, I'd probably be grabbing his package."

05-04-2004, 02:13 PM	#2
JD2635 Banned Banned!! Frequent Poster Join Date: Dec 03, 2003 Location: Porterville, CA Posts: 315	WELL SAID!!! I want W&G's series finale next year to have such good chrismatics as it was in the beginning. We need to have a strong finale to this gerat show as well as That '70s Show, King of the Hill and Everybody Loves Raymond. These shows are the meaning of great TV.

05-31-2004, 09:17 AM	#4
hewlsmw Member Occasional Poster Join Date: May 31, 2004 Location: Cleveland Posts: 7	I think they should DEFINATELY have Will meet someone and get married!!! That would be wonderful!!! You're always rooting for him and it never happens!....