--Just a few minutes into the Roseanne show and already I love it.

[tblue37]

I was worried that Roseanne's own political idiocy would ruin it, but in fact it is already quite funny and the jokes are clever as hell.

[dem4decades]

1. So you're saying Democrats wrote it?

[tblue37]

3. I suspect that most or all of the writers are liberals. nt

[meadowlark5]

2. I wonder how the cast gets along

Laurie Metcalf, Sarah Gilbert, John Goodman are all left leaning. I think many more are like John Galecki.

If Roseanne is an obnoxiously trump loving while off camera, I wonder how they will all get along and maintain a decent working relationship. Like the other post with Tom Arnold's review of the show, Roseanne today is like a 180 politically from the Roseanne of 1980/90s

I plan on tuning in. I used to like it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. How is Dan there? He died in the original.

[Liberalagogo]

6. It's TV

The same way there were two Darrens on Bewitched, or two Beckys on Roseanne, or how Grace on Will & Grace never had a baby, or how Doris Day went from widow with kids to a single never-married woman in just 5 seasons, it's just ignored.

[tblue37]

8. Not ignored, actually; there were several meta jokes about it. nt

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I didn't think it was as good as the original. I liked the second half hour

better than the first. Thought it was nice that both "Becky" actresses are in it.

[MrsCoffee]

7. Gross.

I couldn't even handle the commercials for it.

[Liberalagogo]

9. I think it would work

if they did it like All in the Family, and made Roseanne to butt of the jokes, if she want to be an Archie Bunker type.
But I doubt she'd go for it, if she's sincere about her RUMPitis.

What happened to her? Was she hit on the head with a bunch of coconuts? It's like what happened to Mary Tyler Moore towards the end, where she became a Faux Noisehead. At least Mary was somewhat quiet about it.