I’m So Glad The Conners Moved On From Roseanne To Save The Reboot

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT As a working-class viewer of Roseanne, its revival, and The Conners, I was struck by how much killing off Roseanne brought the show back to its roots. When I first watchd Roseanne in college, the show’s appeal eluded me. The episode we studied as part of TV history, season 2, episode 8, “Sweet Dreams,” is something of an anomaly in the show’s canon.

The reason that Roseanne season 9 is one of the most hated sitcom seasons in TV history is pretty easy to discern. From its inception, Roseanne was about the everyday struggles and little victories that make up working-class family life. Sometimes, an entire episode centered on Roseanne trying to get five minutes to herself after a day of raising her kids and juggling multiple jobs.

As a longtime viewer, I felt betrayed by the Roseanne of 2017’s revival. Roseanne’s justified anger at unfair working conditions, inept managers, corporate corruption, and government bureaucracy was replaced by complaints about teenagers disrespecting their elders and Jackie insulting the president. The revival made its resilient heroine a whiny, self-centered sad sack, resulting in a reboot that alienated me from a show that once had something to say.

Although all of Roseanne season 10 was a shadow of the show’s glory days, I found the finale particularly galling. Roseanne’s opioid addiction was treated with all the dramatic heft of a vomiting bug, while the flood that the family faced was handily solved by instant emergency relief from the government. Compared to the original show, which frequently criticized insufficient government services and depicted the high cost of health struggles realistically, this felt like a pure fantasy.

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