Remember when it was a big deal when Ellen DeGeneres came out on “The Ellen Show”? That now famous “Puppy Episode.” A cultural tipping point. How yesterday.
This week featured the prime-time debut of NBC’s “The New Normal.” Your basic gay couple hires a surrogate single mom to give birth to their child. An ongoing subplot features the surrogate’s mom, who is no central casting grandmother. Instead, she’s a raving, homophobic bigot. So not “Will and Grace.”