Roseanne is coming back to ABC

[wombat]

Live studio audiences are told when to laugh. There's nothing organic about live studio audiences on any show.

How does everyone not know about the big ass red "LAUGH" sign that lights up?

 

[wolfe]

Audience is supposed to be real. They announced live audience a couple times.

Parts of the show were copied from the original. It was weird and cool at the same time. They tossed a lot of intro in so future episodes will be better if they don't have everyone identifying how their character feel about things.

Dan - Conservative good guy dad who's an alcoholic.

Roseanne - Princess who owns the world.

Jackie - Ex cop turned left wing snowflake.

Becky - Money hungry waitress and/or well off liberal who wants a baby.

Darlene - Still tough but way more liberal... and not gay.

DJ - Not much to do in the pilot. Military on leave with wife on active duty. African American daughter.

Jerry - Jerry who?

I liked the fact they showed both sides of the political spectrum. There can be "family" even with dissenting opinions.

Jerry is the kid Rosanne had near the end of the shows origional run.

Supposedly the chick DJ has the kid with us the girl he didn’t wanna kiss in an earlier episode. She was black and they made a big race deal out of it, he just didn’t wanna kiss any girl.

Wondering when they are gonna show Jackie’s kid and if they’ll bring Crystal and her kids back.

 

[wolfe]

I also wouldn’t say Dan’s an alcoholic, or too conservative. He’s old school, that’s about it.

 

[Flyn]

I know who the Jerry character was. The original Roseanne threw in a baby as the standard extend the series by adding a new kid move. Problem was nobody wanted him there and he seemed to be an afterthought like the dog from That 70s Show. Looks like they still don't want him there since they put him on a fishing boat with no phone service.

I'm not talking about the standard laugh points in a show. The audience didn't know how to react to the political remarks or the surrogate mother for money idea. The show must not have had signs for that.

Roseanne scored huge during the double opening with viewing audience size. Let's see how much it drops off next week.

The show’s revival proved that the Conners are not immune to the changing political times. The show, starring a pro-Trump title character, was “the highest-rated regularly-scheduled scripted show of the last few seasons, as well as the highest-rated sitcom in recent memory,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

 

[cap42]

It wasn't terrible but I think the tried too hard with the political crap the first episode almost like jamming too much crap into one episode. There was a few good laughs, I'll watch a few more and see how it goes.

 

[Mook]

18 million viewers

 

[guspech750]

Sadly I missed last nights debut of Rosanne.
But I did see Buckethead play last night instead. So NFG.

 

[Flyn]

Has to be a slap in the face to liberal execs in Hollywood that a show with a Trump supporter main character destroyed ratings records for the last few years. Will & Grace got a 3.0, I think, compared to Roseanne's 5.1.

Could we see more shows tailored towards a less liberal audience? Could they bring back Last Man Standing? Put Last Man Standing after Roseanne and you have an hour of programming that should win the night for ABC.

 

[dom418]

I thought it was pretty damn funny but agree, too many political and social issues in 1 show. They hit em all last night lol

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Propaganda is strong in this one.

 

[Flyn]

Always was. Roseanne slammed into touchy topics during the original series.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I guess i was too young to recognize it

 

[Flyn]

Drunk kids, lesbianism, pregnancies, drug abuse, racism, etc. Other shows in the 90s were mostly afraid to touch that stuff.

 

[Mook]

Looks like a season 2 order is going to be announced very soon.

 

[Lead Pipe]

Looks like a season 2 order is going to be announced very soon.

You mean season 11?

 

[Mook]

Well, it's rebooted so call it what you want.

 

[Flyn]

Episode 2 was great. Old school discipline vs. modern kids. Some hilarious scenes. Don't miss the ending, it's good.

 

[Stink Star]

Still bad acting but had good one liners. The sink scene had me laughing hard

 

[FESTER665]

Episode 2 was great. Old school discipline vs. modern kids. Some hilarious scenes. Don't miss the ending, it's good.

Technically that's episode 3.... The first night was two half hour shows.

The sink part was great like Stink Star mentioned....

 

[RICH17]

Caught up on the first 4 episode. Loving it so far. Some of it is a little much and their punchline delivery needs a little work but all in all its been great

 

[Marko]

CANCELED

After racists tweet

 

[Marko]

 

[Blood on Blood]

The cast and crew now all out of work?

Hope they had good contracts to ensure some type of financial parachute