Great start

It was really good. Can't wait until next week.

VERY good, yes. It literally felt as if no time had passed at all. The jokes still worked, every character felt like natural aged progressions of their former selves and the political aspect was, thankfully, equal for both sides like the old days of the show.

I loved the simple revelation about the book that allowed for Season 9 to still be canon (in the sense that she really did write a book) but allowed them to erase Dan's death and write it off as "just another scene from her manuscript". It was perfect. I allows us to still watch Season 9 (that is, if we wanted to) and just acknowledge it as a failed manuscript Roseanne never had published. I much prefer this handling over simply ignoring the finale. They found a quick, easy and mostly believable way to keep the book canon but amend it a bit so that her shocking revelation at the end of Season 9 was also just a part of her book. Dead simple. I really like that idea and had a feeling they might do something along those lines.

Every character still feels the same. I'm amazed at how well it still works.

I hear a lot of people slamming this new "revival" climate we seem to be in but, you know what?--I say more power to them if they can make the revivals quality products. They're giving us aging viewers more of what we enjoyed in our youth and I'm grateful for it.

it was so surprising to see john goodman returning to his role, sitting there by the kitchen table, in recent years he has become a revered name and cast in major movies. this old series has been airing in my country for as long as i can remember, i don't recall seeing it but al bundy makes a comment about it on another sit com "married with children", so i guess they were on at the same time, speaking of that, since old shows are being brought back, and not just one of those pointless remakes with new casts, imagine, in my opinion, the greatest sit com ever, "married with children" getting picked up for a new season, that would be surreal. they could probably get all actors back including original neighbour steve, i guess al and kelly has gone on to star in other things though. what ever happened to that chevy chase beverly dangelo series anyway? you know what most certainly won't be back? fresh prince of bel air... (will smith). okey, i can't help myself now, i'm gonna rattle off some sit coms i remember watching as a kid... "hangin' with mr. cooper", "family matters", "martin", "garfield", "drew carey show", a few norm macdonald shows, "coach", "alf".



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day started to fade out,
didnt expect anything to come by,
suddenly you hit the ground,
small shoulders head screwed on bright,
shine like a neon sign on saturday night.

I kind of respected Roseanne Barr doing this series, but I never watched it habitually. It is too low life, but I liked the realism of it and the humor.

Now that it came back, and with the subtext of Roseanne's weird support for Donald Trump, I feel like I have to watch it to see it is serious or what. I can't say I really like it or dislike it. It has the same topical quality to it, which I like, but it's not that funny, and kind of overly politically correct.

To be politically correct is interesting in that, it kind of has to be because if the sexually confused son was not there and the mixed race daughter, and the poverty it would have no sympathy at all .... so of all things, this show to be so politically correct makes it feel fake and unauthentic to me.

On the other hand as Bill Maher pointed out, the show pretty much turns anyone watching it with half a brain against Trump.

Here is some of what Maher said via his show to Roseanne Barr ... ( they were friends apparently )

“You’re now the face of the Trump supporter because you really do speak for a certain kind of American who knows they’re being screwed by someone, they just don’t know who. But here’s what you’re missing about Trump: when he says he’s ‘looking out for the little guy,’ he’s talking about his d*ck,” said Maher.

“You’re a socialist! You’ve been one for 30 years!… You said ‘all of my ideas R based in socialism.’ How does that intersect with Trump? All his ideas are based on national socialism… I’m kidding, he doesn’t have any ideas,” said Maher.

He went on to mock the thousands of dollars that Trump made workers with his tax cuts. “The top 1 percent walked away with 83 percent of the benefits. The elites he rails against on Twitter got billions, forever, and Roseanne Conner got peanuts with an expiration date,” said Maher.

“So, here’s the deal. I get that you were mad as hell and wanted to throw a monkey wrench into the whole works, and I won’t judge that. But if in the next six months you don’t see Trump’s magic starting to work for you, if you’re still trading pills and driving an Uber, wouldn’t the more realistic plot line for season two be your disillusionment with Donald Trump?” said Maher of the character in Roseanne.