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OK, so what’s the next step from there?
From then on, Mac is out to everyone except his father, whom he has attempted to impress his whole life.
In season 13, episode 10, "Mac Finds His Pride", Mac performs a moving dance routine to express to his father his sexuality. Instead, he decides to stay out, and the episode ends on an unusually poignant and hopeful note.
"You might scream at the TV in anger and rage, because it’s ruining your show, but I promise that that is why you like the show," he said. This, however, was an earnest moment in which Mac (played by series creator Rob McElhenney) finally found the means with which to express himself and affirm his identity as a newly out gay man.
And we ran with that."
While Season 13 ended on a rare moment of grace, it's unlikely that the Gang will have learned any profound lessons by the time Season 14 begins. So we began going down that road: Let’s satirize that hard Christian conservative who is also intensely homophobic. To Rolling Stone he said,
"It felt good that we were recognizing a part of our audience in a way that was not pandering, that wasn't offensive or upsetting or a caricature.
The accompanying music is Sigur Rós's “Varúð.”
Fans and critics of the series were absolutely floored by the finale.
The team behind "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" has said they'd like to get the show through 15 seasons, which would make it the longest-running live-action comedy in American television history.
What happened at the end of season 13 may change its course and tone forever.
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Season 13 of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" wrapped up on Wednesday night with an exquisite sequence of contemporary dance, a magically earnest moment for creator Rob McElhenney and the adoring fans who never could have seen it coming.
Entitled "Mac Finds His Pride," the season finale deals with Mac's struggle to come out to his absent, imprisoned father.
There's an obvious example of this in season 9, episode 5, "Mac Day", when Mac's cousin Country Mac proudly comes out to the Gang, "I'm into dudes!
Mac's journey of coming out as gay is portrayed through humor and poignant moments, emphasizing his desire for acceptance from his father. True inclusion is bringing the LGBTQ down into the gutter with us." Clearly, McElhenny and the rest of the crew on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia have a good handle on how to make Mac a great LGBTQ+ character and a great character in general.
- Release Date
- August 4, 2005
- Network
- FX, FXX
- Showrunner
- Rob McElhenney
- Directors
- Matt Shakman, Fred Savage, Todd Biermann, Daniel Attias, Richie Keen, Randall Einhorn, Heath Cullens, Pete Chatmon, Jerry Levine, Kat Coiro, Megan Ganz, Jamie Babbit, John Fortenberry, Maurice Marable, Kimberly McCullough, Imani Hakim, LP, Tim Roche
- Writers
- Scott Marder, Rob Rosell, Dave Chernin, John Chernin, Dannah Feinglass Phirman, Danielle Schneider, Conor Galvin, Becky Mann, Luvh Rakhe, Audra Sielaff, Eric Ledgin, Patrick Walsh, Lee Sung-jin, Mehar Sethi, Nina Pedrad, Keyonna Taylor, D.
B. Weiss, David Benioff, Elijah Aron, Hunter Covington, Jordan Young, Adam Stein, Chris Romano, Eric Falconer
Charlie Day
Charlie Kelly
Glenn Howerton
Dennis Reynolds
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He then became extremely jacked, with a bodybuilder's physique.At one point, Mac went from generally fit to noticeably overweight. We weren’t creating a gay character for comedic effect, that was there just to be gay and to be funny because he was gay, but a very complex, very disturbed, very fucked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay.
Rickety Cricket goes from a priest into a broken-down "street urchin"; Frank and Charlie frequently spend time apart only to come back together; Dennis even disappears from the show for half a season.
Of all these characters, Mac may be the one who undergoes the most significant changes. In the two-part season 11 finale, Mac has a threesome with two men and, immediately after, tells his friends, "Welp, I'm gay," who all respond with variations of "No s**t." Therein lies the joke of IASIP;it's not a joke on Mac for being gay,it's a joke on Mac for thinking he is somehow hiding a part of himself that everyone else is aware of.
Like everyone in IASIP, Mac is so conceited that he could not fathom that the Gang would know anything about him he didn't.
We weren't creating a gay character for comedic effect, that was there just to be gay and to be funny because he was gay, but a very complex, very disturbed, very f*****-up and awful character, who happens to be gay.
"I do not know if 'It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia' is the same show after this," wrote The A.V. Club's Dennis Perkins.
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Rob McElhenney Just Explained Why It Took Mac So Long to Come Out on 'Always Sunny'
The 14th season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premieres on September 25, making it the longest-running live action sitcom on American television alongside The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Season 13 concluded with a format-busting extended dance sequence which turned the show on its head: while the Gang have experimented with musical numbers before, it's always been in the service of the show's transgressive comedy.