So, Roseanne is getting a revival...

[Epic for the Summer]

She's usually liberal but she hates Hillary for some reason and supported Trump just because he wasn't her.

 

[CookieMueller]

She hated Bernie too

 

[Mickey Massuco]

it's obvious why she supported him:

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_mgYVCHzLU

Roseanne and John Goodman had a pilot five years ago? I'm intrigued.

 

[BruiserBrody]

She's usually liberal but she hates Hillary for some reason and supported Trump just because he wasn't her.

She sounds like she wasn't a Trumper, but felt Hillary would lead to more PC and more globalism. She wants a big government to a point, but only for a few things. She's pro-union.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnxZskltvQA

 

[Brocklock]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2017/12/29/roseanne-barr-threatens-retire-huff-over-twitter-feuding-liberals/991435001/

Can we get Christopher Plummer in post production to replace Roseanne? And hasn't she essentially been retired? The only cast members that get less work than her are the original Becky and DJ.

 

[KOAB]

ah man I can no longer find her tweet about autists now being in control of the world like she predicted back in 2010.

 

[CookieMueller]

I'm so torn about this whole thing because I'm rooting for most of this cast so hard, Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman are two of my favorite people in "hollywood". And I LOVED this show when I was a kid, it was one of the last shows I remember my whole family watched together every week no matter what. But God, Roseanne Barr circa 2017 is totally insufferable. I wish they could just be like "lol actually roseanne died, not dan, now heres the rest of the cast in a show..."

 

[Damaramu]

I'm with you Cookie. We loved this show in my household and watched it religiously. When it made it to syndication it was always on right around dinner time so we usually watched it while we ate too (my house was set up where you could see the living room tv from the dining room table) so I feel like I've seen every episode at least 3 times.

I just don't expect this to be very good at all unfortunately.

 

[vivisectvi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X32lP33kyOs

 

[CookieMueller]

They're already getting some liberal outrage for calling The Conners, an all-white family, the family that "looks like us." I wasn't personally offended but I'm also white.

 

[909]

They're already getting some liberal outrage for calling The Conners, an all-white family, the family that "looks like us." I wasn't personally offended but I'm also white.

I genuinely believe some of this outrage culture is fueled by Russian bots, who easily push stuff on people who are fully willing to be manipulated. People need to chill the fuck out.

That being said I have no intention of watching this because politics is going to be injected into the show and I'm tired of it.

 

[vivisectvi]

I'm not sure who they're aiming at with "the family that looks like us" though - how much of the audience watching this are actually overweight white trash?

 

[909]

I'm not sure who they're aiming at with "the family that looks like us" though - how much of the audience watching this are actually overweight white trash?

That's still the majority of people in this country so...90%

I had a lot of black friends growing up and do now. I have never heard a single one of them ever talk about white people shit like this show, or Friends, or Seinfeld, etc.

 

[CookieMueller]

Well if you're thin white trash, there's also Becky, Darlene and Aunt Jackie.

 

[909]

In that way there's nothing wrong with the marketing, because that is quite truthful. It's not like WWE or real sports where so much of the audience is of a different race that pandering to anyone in particular is genuinely offensive.

I'm still surprised somebody would green light that kind of marketing in 2018. Even though it really will be only white people watching that show, it's weird to hear someone outright say that.

 

[Brocklock]

They're already getting some liberal outrage for calling The Conners, an all-white family, the family that "looks like us." I wasn't personally offended but I'm also white.

I genuinely believe some of this outrage culture is fueled by Russian bots, who easily push stuff on people who are fully willing to be manipulated. People need to chill the fuck out.

That being said I have no intention of watching this because politics is going to be injected into the show and I'm tired of it.

Politics being shoehorned in is the reason I'm not watching. I know we live in a completely different world from 25-30 years ago, but I don't remember the original series mentioning H.W. or Clinton at all.

 

[Epic for the Summer]

So did anyone catch this? I plan on checking it out tomorrow after work but wanted to see if there were any early thoughts.

 

[CookieMueller]

My dad, a diehard republican, loved it. He texted me raving about it "even though I didn't like the original!" so I'm probably gonna wait a few more episodes before I give it a try. He did have one complaint - he didn't like the trans kid, shock shock.

 

[HSJ]

My republican parents loved it but I thought it gave each side some time to shine, so not terrible from me.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

It had it's original humor that was great about the original run. It felt like it was the same show, not just trying to be the same show. Some things felt a little bit forced, politically speaking, but overall, if you like the original run, you'll probably like it.

 

[Youth N Asia]

I thought it was alright. The first episode being centered around the 2016 election felt pretty dated.

 

[Hawk 34]

I felt like Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman were still in high form which was to be expected. It had the usual authentic feel that we come to expect from this show and the humor was on point and both sides of the political spectrum were heard and it was heard like how actual people communicate.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I thought it was alright. The first episode being centered around the 2016 election felt pretty dated.

The President hasn't gotten over the election, and there's millions all hot and bothered on both sides, so I think it's relevant. I'm a political junkie and laughed like hell, so my opinion is probably bias.

 

[Epic for the Summer]

Eh, the first episode was ok, just re-establishing the feel of the series. I'm sure it'll get better.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

The revival of Roseanne premiered to massive ratings Tuesday night.

The return delivered an incredible 18.2 million viewers along with an equally impressive 5.1 rating among adults 18-49.

According to ABC, this is the highest-rated comedy telecast on any network in nearly four years (since a premiere episode of CBS’ The Big Bang Theory from 2014).

http://ew.com/tv/2018/03/28/roseanne-ratings/

 

[vivisectvi]

Wonderful..

 

[CookieMueller]

Has he taken credit for it yet?

 

[Gary]

Has he taken credit for it yet?

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-praises-roseanne-during-infrastructure-speech-look-at-her-ratings/

 

[vivisectvi]

Watched the first episode via torrent. It was eye-rollingly bad.