25 best Christmas TV episodes to watch this holiday season

Will & Grace -“A Little Christmas Queer”

What would a traditional family Christmas be without a little family dysfunction? On the eighth season of Will & Grace, Will brings Grace, Jack, and Karen home to his mother’s for Christmas. As you can expect, things don’t go smoothly, or at least, not for Will.

On the way to his mother’s house in Connecticut, Will and Jack discuss his “gay” nephew, Jordie, who is extremely flamboyant. Will worries about him because he always felt his mother was very repressive towards his gay tendencies as a child. But when they get there and Jordie decides to perform a Christmas show for the entire family, Will immediately shuts down the idea. His mother would always ruin the plays he did for his family during his childhood, and he didn’t want Jordie to suffer the same humiliation in front of everyone.

Jack, who is shamelessly flamboyant, encourages Jordie to put on the show and even helps him plan it out, and Will realizes something: he’s doing to Jordie what his mother always did to him, so he tells Jordie to do his show for the family, even if Marilyn tries to ruin it. But it goes surprisingly well, even when he performs a holiday rendition of “All That Jazz” from Chicago (“And all that Claaaaaauuuuuus!”), and Marilyn gives him a rave review (which sets Will off on a rant).

Will tells his mother how mad he is seeing her be supportive of Jordie after shaming him for so many years, and she agrees she was unfair. She tells Will she wasn’t prepared to raise a gay son, but doesn’t want to make the same mistakes with her grandson. Isn’t that a very touching Christmas moment?

Meanwhile, Grace is having her own Christmas drama. Jordie’s father, Will’s brother Sam, hooked up with Grace in an earlier season, and now he’s avoiding her. When she finally manages to get him alone, they hook up in the attic while looking for a menorah for Grace (who’s Jewish). Karen is having her own crisis, trying to figure out the secret ingredient in Marilyn’s signature cocktail, the Blue Marilyn — it’s a cherry Sucret.