When I sat down last night to give the new Rosanne revival a try, I had no idea that plenty of other Americans were sitting down as well, a lot more, 18.1 million according to the ratings. It was actually much as I remembered the old Rosanne; wise cracks and working class angst. Twenty years later, nobody’s life is really great. Becky’s husband has died and she is resorting to desperate measures to make ends meet, Darlene has moved back home having lost her job, and DJ is back from the military, after serving in Syria. But satisfying nostalgia isn’t what got me curious enough to tune in, it was this: Rosanne is a Trump supporter.
I thought it was really well crafted and dealt with many of the current political issues of today in a respectful way. I'm curious to see if these ratings translate into another season being ordered by ABC.
I am not much of a fan of weekly TV shows. I also watched it out of curiosity. I agree, it really hasn't changed much. However, the Left's constant attacks on Trump leave me with a feeling that this isn't innocent. Either the show is trying to enforce the image of Trump supporters as "Walmart people", or else Roseanne will slowly see the errors of her ways. I expect there is an agenda.
Yes, and the Illuminati are behind it. It started with aliens but they handed the job off to their earth partners.
Since Roseanne has become the new Emmanuel Goldstein on twitter, it's highly likely she will make some anti Trump statements in the future. If I were her publicist, that's what I would recommend.
Why did Roseanne leave the last time? Didn't she win the Lotto and then Dan died after a younger woman took his share of her money? (but he's been resurrected now, Hey, maybe she's going to found a religion.) If it was ratings I don't give this legs. Her show was one of the first standup to sitcom successes like Everybody Loves Raymond and Home Improvement and it struggled to maintain interest after the novelty of the schtick wore off. The woman has her talents but she's also as crassly commercial as they come and I don't see her as reinventing her motif all that much or often.
The writing and act and directing the first two weeks were believable and engaging. If that keeps up, the show will develop long legs.
My opinion? Gilbert and Goodman can act. The rest of the cast can't. The writing is mediocre. Still, it will last two seasons, just because the novelty of it will get adequate ratings, and because there isn't much better around. Rosanne herself is kind of crazy. She's part of the QAnon conspiracy theory cult, which originates with anonymous poster "Q" in a 4chan group, and is totally bonkers. Best I can tell, it says that Trump only pretended to collude with Russia, so he'd have an excuse to hire Mueller, and Mueller is really secretly looking into things like how Soros and Obama and Hillary Clinton are running their child molestation rings in Pizza Parlors. Trump himself is supposedly a supergenius who is playing an 11-dimensional chess game that we normal humans can't hope to understand.
My mistake, if she is into this I give her about a week. The one thing that scares sponsors more than bad ratings is boycott threats
I only saw a clip of the show as I am must more interested in getting a chance to check out the new Mythbusters show then a reboot of an old sitcom. The clip did show her forcing a grand daughter head into the kitchen sink something. I did not find funny
