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In reply to the discussion: While I won't waste my time watching that asshole Roseanne's revival, if it garners enough viewers, [View all]Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)31. Did not watch it, but I do not watch most TV
If Roseanne is smart, she will find a way to recapture the fine writing and acting of the original show and touch on many topics but emphasize family. If she is stupid she will go all partisan, alienate more than half of her potential audience, and have results similar to the end of the original run when I believe the Connor's won the lottery and her husband (Goodman) died.
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While I won't waste my time watching that asshole Roseanne's revival, if it garners enough viewers, [View all]
still_one
Mar 2018
OP
I have many, many choices of things to watch on television and there are no shows that I "should"
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#57
I wouldn't care if her show were about Black Lives Matter and she played a raging liberal
EffieBlack
Mar 2018
#71
I wouldn't watch it, but I saw a clip this morning and maybe this will backfire bigly.
Vinca
Mar 2018
#11
You know most complaining never watched it or barely a few minutes before their ears bled
Blue_Adept
Mar 2018
#21
Yeah the show was a lot more complex than those who havent watched it think it is
emulatorloo
Mar 2018
#30
Roseanne Barr is a diehard Trumpkin, but the show isn't about that, past the intro
Tarc
Mar 2018
#24
She did a lot more than just vote for Trump. She called people who didn't vote for him pedophiles.
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2018
#44
Your insinuation that because I don't watch her show makes me uninformed about what?
still_one
Mar 2018
#59
I hear you, but you also keep using the term that it doesn't "normalize trump". My comments had
still_one
Mar 2018
#63
ok, and I am not offended by the use of the word fuck, but vulgar and crude have a tendency to come
still_one
Mar 2018
#65
I listened to Sean Hannity praise Roseanne three or four times at least on the way to work yesterday
workinclasszero
Mar 2018
#49
I won't support any show for which the trump base shows such marked enthusiasm.
Paladin
Mar 2018
#52
I didn't watch her show decades ago, and I won't watch it now. The comment I made regarding
still_one
Mar 2018
#62