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The Best Family Is Chosen Family
WHEN WILL & GRACE PREMIERED ON NBC IN 1998, it was groundbreaking because of the sheer lack of queer representation on network TV. Since then, numerous sitcoms have increased LGBTQ+ visibility on TV, but rarely gay characters of an older generation. To fill that void, those same Will & Grace creators, Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, developed Hulu’s Mid-Century Modern to show that while a multi-camera sitcom with three gay male leads is rare, the stories they are telling are universal.
“I don’t know that you’re going to find a comedy that the third line is, ‘You look like a reluctant bottom,’” Mutchnick tells Newsweek. “It tells you what you’re watching. At the same time, you get the essence of what that friendship is.”
It’s that candid language among friends…
