Klamath Falls, OR— Roseanne Barr knew Donald Trump personally for 30 years and saw how he treated women. And Roseanne Barr has made $200 million off Roseanne Conner for the sitcom Roseanne, and now is as phony as Trump. Roseanne Conner plans on being a far-right Trump lover for the show as she is in real life presently. The Roseanne Conner we grew to know and love is not the same Roseanne Conner we loved and adored in the past. Roseanne Barr doesn't have Roseanne Conner's back this time around.
The series first aired 30 years ago, and its working-class comedy was blunt, down-to-earth and honest, particularly when it came to showing the reality of being broke. But now Roseanne and Dan support Trump because he promised jobs. The jokes are dry and scrape the surface of meanness.
Jokes are handled with a similar “sure, why not?” indifference. They’re quick, broad, and many of them feel far too familiar, even if “Roseanne’s” sense of humor is still on point. Roseanne Barr is early on her reactions and slow with her delivery. The character that bears her name and legacy isn’t as sharp as she needs to be, even when she’s called on to be purposefully slow.
They’re just tossing insults that double as jokes, except they forget to freshen up the material. There's been some controversy over the decision, pushed by Barr, to make Roseanne a supporter of Trump. There are moments in the opener when it feels like the adult cast is phoning it in. Goodman, in particular, takes a few episodes to get back into the groove as Dan. Everyone's comedic timing is a bit off at first, and you can even hear the studio audience not-quite laughing at many of the tired punchlines.
We meet Darlene's kids, who seem like mirror images of Darlene and Becky's early years: Mark (Ames McNamara) prefers to wear feminine clothes, and Harris (Emma Kenney) is embarrassed by her mother, and the family. The new kids on the block in the first episode that seem more like the pro's than the pro's do.
Becky is still in Lanford and working as a waitress, so she drops by the house on a regular basis. So does the Conners’s son D.J. (Michael Fishman), who is recently out of the military and raising his young African-American daughter (Jayden Rey) while his wife continues to serve overseas. As for the second Becky, Sarah Chalke, who took over the role after Goranson left the show in 1992, even she gets to reemerge in a way that’s handled cleverly enough to enable viewers to (mostly) overlook the fact that she was Becky for nearly half of the series’ original run.
Well, what’s left may be easy, but it’s far from smooth. “Roseanne” still needs to iron out exactly what it wants to be: It’s a sitcom that can’t sustain itself on the situations presented or the comedy within them, nor does it effectively blend the two.
All in all, we will have wait and see if the Connor's wake up and see the light when it comes to Trump. Better sooner than later because if they don't the revival is going to fail as much as Trump is failing now.
And the Trump supporters are already crying about all the liberals complaining about Roseanne and Dan Conner being supporters of Trump. They think it is refreshing to see Trump supporters as characters in a sitcom. It makes them feel at home with their hypocrisies that they don't seem to see about themselves. They will be sure to tune in every Tuesday night at 8 PM to see themselves being presented by Roseanne and Dan Conner their role models of clueless Trump supporters. If liberals don't tune in, they haven't a chance in hell to succeed. So!
Good-luck!
By James Garland of Tulelake News
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