Posted on 03/30/2018 3:48:28 AM PDT by calvincaspian
The return of the hit TV sitcom “Roseanne” couldn’t have come at a better time. It’s an opportunity for many Americans to be introduced to the working class.
In the show, Roseanne Conner (Roseanne Barr) is a Trump supporter. She’s got a bad knee but can’t get treatment because her insurance won’t cover it. Her husband, Dan, played again by John Goodman, wears a sleep apnea device and does drywall work for a living, though he should probably be retired.
The Conners represent a typical Midwestern blue-collar family. But it could be many blue-collar families everywhere. They love God and serve their country. They own guns, drink beer and shop at Target and Walmart. They are good and decent people.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
The redux of Roseanne includes a nod to the troops and law enforcement and also just happens to be a hilarious show. More importantly we can also hope that it may be a way to finally bridge the gap between the two Americas of 2018. In the show, both sides are gently skewered with clever barbs tossed back and forth on an equal level, but the comedy is brilliantly used as covering fire for important conversation.
Conversation. Remember that?
It’s a start
I hope they hold the line....
...concerned still about the potential transgender direction
I miss Bob Newhart as either a psychologist in Chicago or innkeeper in Vermont. Both shows dealt with people and their characters and quirks, as opposed to regions and politics. Sorry if I am off topic here, but I could not help but think of something like this.
She will have to work pretty dang hard to get rid of her national anthem stain.
Roseanne tried her best to make up for that mess. She felt very bad about it, I heard in an interview...She went to her son’s baseball game and sang it again...did a nice respectful job. Hope I’m remembering right.
Me too. I don't trust TV producers. Mid-terms coming up...
You are correct. I follow her on Twitter and she’s a big Trump fan. The libs have been tormenting her something awful on Twitter, or they were the last time she was posting. She stopped for a while because they were so vile.
Loved the Newhart shows. Great casts and Newhart let them do their thing and didn’t “hogg” the entire show. Saw him in concert; clean and non-political and funny.
If the only thing that comes from the new Roseanne show is this fantastic editorial, then the show was a success. It is a great read.
It really isn’t different than “All in the Family” where Archie Bunker played off of Meathead.
Roseanne and Dan come off as super-relatable and normal.
The show is only revived for 9 episodes which isn’t likely to have much impact on the elections either way. And it isn’t really about partisan politics in any case.
Roseanne is not new to the game.
Even before Trump-—many years ago——Roseanne criticized liberals and their condescending hypocrisy, as she saw it.
I suspect they are simply trying to find a way to get white normal to watch TV again; they desperately want to sell to them (products AND ideas), and they can’t if they’re not watching SOMETHING with commercials.
Roseann was really used by her ex-husband, Tom Arnold.
While they were married, he womanized and even got her to agree to an open marriage-—letting him openly have another woman.
I think she agreed b/c she wanted to hang onto the louse.
That’s what broke up Donald’s marriage to Ivana-—she was very conservative-—she wouldnt go along with an “open marriage.”
Sounds strange.....but if a woman gives the straying husband enough rope to hang himself......sooner or later he sees the error of his ways.
“The genuine statesman is incarnate history, its directedness expressed as individual will and its organic logic, as character.” Oswald Spengler
What Spengler talks about is absolutely ‘apolitical’.
Maybe recognizing how much America has been exploited and betrayed by the Liberal ‘agenda’ will begin to outrage Liberals, as well and as much as it has outraged Conservatives! That would be UNIFICATION and a giant step in the right direction for the whole country.
THE THREAD DESCROBES MY LIFE,
This is really a good article all the way through. Thanks for posting.
The nine episodes were to see if they could build a base. With 18.2 million viewers (and how many more have watched it since then) you can bet they've have more in the works.
At any rate, if the GOP lose the midterms, they've only themselves to blame and it'll be for running the same type of people who put the "Roseanne Class" in the mess their in today, the same type of squishy establishment candidates that Trump beat.
While I appreciate everything that Trump is doing for the country, is there none that see his commenting on a television show to be beneath the dignity of his great office?
No, the TV industry is not a sacred cow that POTUS must fear.
If a President can be expected to honor sports teams he can certainly respond to a TV phenomenon with over 18 million viewers.
To hide from it would be bizarre.
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