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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.
Revealed as a gay man at the end of the previous season, Mac is still unable to find his footing in the world. 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.
"The joke was that he was in the closet, and he refused to come out and doubled down on his homophobia. While his father won't abide him, the dance moves Frank to tears, who says, "I get it." It may be the sincerest moment of the series (and a reminder of just what caliber of actor Danny Devito is when he isn't wielding a toe knife).
Rob McElhenny Didn't Want Mac's Sexuality To Change His Character
Rob McElhenny has spoken at length about Mac's sexuality in the series.
And that’s when I thought, 'Let’s just make him gay.' What we realized is, if you look back over the seasons, it almost worked retroactively."
Gags about Mac's sexuality had long been one of the show's many running jokes, but just as the show had skewered racist and sexist viewpoints before, so too were viewers invited to laugh at the characters' homophobic comments, not with them.
"The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obviously.
And we ran with that."
Mac is not funny because he is gay, Mac is funny and he's gay.
“We got a really overwhelming emotional response from the LGBTQ community last year,” McElhenney said.
"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.
McElhenney, going behind the scenes with Vulture, explained that the support the show received from the LGBTQ community after last season's finale pushed him to think bigger about how to deal with Mac's sexuality moving forward.
Rob McElhenny Shares If It's Always Sunny's Mac Really Is Gay
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He then became extremely jacked, with a bodybuilder's physique. And I feel like that's something I hear over and over again from our fans, who say, 'Hey, man, it's great that Mac came out and it's great that you didn't change him, that he's still so unlikable and such an a‑‑hole and that everyone hates him.' That is true inclusion, as opposed to saying he's come out and now all of a sudden he's this great guy.
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.
And that was something we made a concerted effort on, to make sure we were servicing a very large part of our community, which is the LGBTQ community, and we wanted to make sure that we were having a character who was going to come out in a way that would feel satisfying and be in the tone of the Sunny, while also not just all of a sudden dramatically changing Mac's character, because that just wouldn't resonate with Sunny.
They don't dislike gay people; they dislike Mac.
When it came to constructing a character who was gay in their universe, McElhenny told EW,
"I think making sure that we are very careful to not change the fact that Mac is an abhorrent person. However, the second part of the season finale retracts his coming out of the closet and Mac is once again happy to pretend to be straight, much to the exasperation of everyone present.
In season 12, episode 6, "Hero or Hate Crime", Mac comes out as gay to win a lottery ticket during arbitration, which the Gang calls out as a ploy, assuming he'll go back to the closet as soon as he cashes the ticket.
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.
"Is Mac gay?" is a question that just about every character on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia wonders at some point in the series.
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.