Daytripper

I love these characters and the actors have tremendous chemistry.

hdnmickey

Why? Semmed like the obvious option after coving her addiction, and getting more pills illegally, during the last short season.

DWilson

I was pretty much done with this about half-way through, -it just didn't engage me.

JackoOnHisBacko

Because I really didn't see much of the last season, and definitely didn't see her getting any pills illegally.

With the episode title "Keep on truckin'", I was just expecting it to be a random vehicular accident.

Abob Teff

Really?

Abob Teff

Ok, you’re excused.

Coral

Roseanne's absence had absolutely no negative effect on the show. In fact, I thought this was better than all the episodes last season.

I always found Roseanne Barr and the Roseanne character annoying, so her not being on the show automatically gives the shows score and extra point. Barr's a piece of shit, so I hope her career is over.

Also, Goodman's lost a good amount of weight - but there's something off about him. He looks to be struggling a bit when he's walking and just looks like he's battling a sickness of some sort. He's only 66 years old, so it's possible all those years of abuse to his body is causing problems for him now despite the weight loss.

Abob Teff

Actually, that kitchen scene finally made me realize what Metcalf has been doing with the character. I thought the over-the-top acting has always been horrific and wondered how she could be the actress that she is. Then the character goes through spells of normalcy. That scene emphasized the manic nature of Jackie though — when she is having an episode is when the character gets super-wacko.

Josh-da-man

It’s a bit like Seinfeld, where the title character is the least interesting character, but is the lynchpin that holds all of the other characters together.

There’s really no way to do Seinfeld without Jerry Seinfeld, but I think The Conners can pull off Roseanne without Roseanne Barr because of the familial relationship. It will be interesting to see if they can keep it up.

GoldenJCJ

For some odd reason I think the producers are purposely making Dan look sickly on the show. I’ve seen recent interviews with Goldman and he doesn’t look nearly as bad as they have him looking on the show.


I mostly enjoyed the episode but the timeline of her death seemed a little off. They said she had died 3 weeks ago but the family was talking about her nonstop as if it had just happened a few days prior. Then the kid who had to make a choice about which boy to sit next to on the bus was apparently a conversation that hadn’t been finished with Roseanne, seemingly almost a month ago, but was apparently an urgent matter now.

Coral

I noticed that as well.
If it had been only a few days since she died, the characters would be in the deepest stage of mourning and wouldn't be spitting out jokes like they did - which is death for a comedy. So they had to make it longer period of time.
However, they still needed some exposition as well and have the characters go through their grieving process for the audience - so we can see the affects.

mickey65

I thought it was pretty good and I'll keep watching. Just like in the last season and this...I really like that "old school" vibe to it, making it feel like season 4-5. I'm so glad they have the original Becky on this one. I like how her and Darlene snipe back and forth at each other. It wasn't like that with the "other" Becky.

I also like Becky the way she's turned out - it gives her more of an "edge" now.

jacob_b

If you watched last season, how could you not expect that? I think everyone called that was going to be the cause.

Where is the source that they reached out and she didn't respond? I know Gilbert went off on her as did some of the newer cast members. However, Goodman never spoke bad about her like the others did. He very much never threw Roseanne under the bus at least in public. I think Metcalf stayed pretty silent as well. You can't really come to the defense for her with that tweet, either. I mean, you can say she isn't a racist but she obviously has a huge agenda against the left and is known to have quite the mouth.

While Roseanne is a HUGE part of the overall show, she isn't the make or break character. I do feel that is Goodman and the reason I say that is if you go off the later episodes during the first run, when Goodman was out of the show due to an affair (not sure the real reason, maybe he was making movies?), I felt the show kind of went downhill focusing on just Roseanne and then of course how much money they got. I do feel her character is an important part, especially for Jackie's character because an entire series of just Jackie might be too much.

Daytripper

Where is the source? It's been everywhere online. And on TV. All three actors said they've done this. Hell, even Roseanne herself acknowledged that Goodman said some nice things about her and she basically said that he doesn't know her.

https://www.nbc.com/access/video/ros...tmates/3807519

Troy Stiffler

Still a great show. Not sure if we'll get more than a season or two.

Breakfast with Girls

I liked it well enough. This show has never really had amazing actors (except Goodman), but I sort of cringed every time DJ, his wife, and his daughter had lines.

jacob_b

I can't pull anything up from the link you posted, but here is your quote:

You said NONE came to her defense. So I leave you with this article that proves you completely lied or don't know the facts:

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/ros...rt-1202918854/

Here's the quote:

“I thank John Goodman for speaking truth about me, despite facing certain peril from producers and network,” Barr tweeted Monday.

What did John say?

“I was surprised at the response,” Goodman said about Barr’s tweet. “And that’s probably all I should say about that. … I know for a fact that she’s not a racist.” (Here's the link for said tweet: )

However, Goodman also admitted that he had previous sent Barr an email thanking her for relinquishing her rights to the show so a spinoff could happen, but she never responded. “She was going through hell at the time,” he said. “And she’s still going through hell.”

This article was in August. So, as I pointed out, Goodman did come to her defense. Roseanne thanked him.

And you also said Roseanne said John does NOT know her (I bolded that quote for you up there). Again not true. Here's a video right here where Roseanne said John DOES know her and she cried when he supported her:
A little fact checking will go a long way for you.

Daytripper

What's up with your snide and condescending attitude? Calling someone a liar. I meant no one came to her defense right after her tweet. And I don't know what happened with that link, but try this

https://people.com/tv/sara-gilbert-l...roseanne-barr/

A little fact checking will go a long way with you too.

I am fully aware of John Goodman's nice comments about Roseanne these past many weeks. But he was silent the first several after the tweet. I will go look for that online article I read where Roseanne said Goodman didn't know her.


Edit: So apparently links are no longer accepted on DVDTalk. Because that's not working either. But here is the article from People:


Exclusive

Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf Have Reached Out to Roseanne Barr — But She Hasn't Responded Yet

Julie Jordan
October 05, 2018 08:20 AM

As they prepare for the premiere of their Roseanne spin-off, The Conners, Sara Gilbert, John Goodman and Laurie Metcalf are grateful to their former costar, Roseanne Barr, for allowing the show to proceed without her.

“That was a very big deal,” Goodman, 66, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “To give us a chance.”

Barr agreed to have no involvement with the spin-off after the hit Roseanne reboot was canceled by ABC in May following a racist comment she made about a former White House advisor.

While the new show will address the absence of Barr’s character, who reportedly will be killed off, in a manner befitting the original series, the loss has been a process for the cast both on-screen and off.

“Sara and I had this scene in the first show where we addressed the grief,” recalls Metcalf, 63. “Sometimes when you’re an actor and you have to go to that place, you substitute something, but in this case there was no need to do that, because it was there. And it was real. And still makes me choke up, because that part of it’s been really hard.”

Although none of them have spoken to Barr since her tweet in May, both Gilbert and Metcalf have reached out to the comedian but haven’t heard back “yet,” says Metcalf.

Gilbert, 43, hopes any sadness the cast feels will be channeled “in an honest way into the show,” she adds. “And our show has always been able to deal with heavy topics, particularly for a sitcom. It’s been kind of built into the mix.”

movieguru

I've only seen the first episode of the new reboot last year and missed the rest of the episodes of that season. My wife and I just watched the "series premiere" of The Connors tonight. The first episode of the reboot last year went overboard with the politics. i don't know how the other episodes were, but the first one was a little too much. This new episode didn't have any of the politics. Hopefully it will stay like that.

The worst part about this show though is the acting. It feels like the actors are just deadpanning every line and it doesn't feel realistic and pulls you out of it.

DWilson

As I recall, they pretty much dropped the politics after the first episode, -maybe a line or two here or there, -though it retained a certain amount of being "Message-y", but if you were fine with The Connors you'd be fine with the other episodes. The acting was the problem there, too.

hdnmickey

Agreed. But on the flip side I think the actors that kids that play Darlene's kids are solid. I suspect that after this first episode we will see the show all but drop DJ and his family again in favor of the adults and Darlene's kids. They sure did during the short previous season.

GuessWho

Audrey & Rusty Griswold reunion next week

jacob_b

Because you are a liar unless you can show the article where Roseanne said Goodman did not know her where she very vocally said he did. And the reason Goodman didn't go out the second after her tweet is because the man suffers from depression. He talked about how he was depressed for the first month or so after the show got canceled. Got to remember her suffered from a very big drinking problem as well. If you saw the TMZ photos of Goodman when it was first announced the show got canceled, he looked awful. He stayed very silent but he never, at any time, attacked Roseanne like the other cast members. Her TV kids, yeah, they went after her. But you just cannot say the entire cast did when Goodman never made any bad remarks about her.

movieguru

What also didn't really make sense, except for plot, was when Jackie went to Dan to tell him about the autopsy results. It appeared the daughters were acting as the executors for Roseanne and Jackie was not. Yet the coroner calls Jackie to telll her that Roseanne died of an overdose. Doesn't seem logical as I doubt they have a home phone anymore, so the coroner would call a cell phone of one of the daughters and not Jackie. I would suspect that giving out that information to Jackie would be a HIPPA violation as well.

dex14

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