The Conners

I am only in the second season, but I am having a hard time with this show now. It really is the Darlene show with brief pit stops with Becky who was portrayed as the town bicycle. And Dan has become this cranky totally unlikable person. All he does is yell. And there is no universe where I see a man like Dan (miserable and cranky) getting a woman like Louise. She is so far out of his league.

I do have a problem with Darlene's kid's names. Mark was named after Becky's high school boyfriend? And Harris? Harris, really? Who names a girl Harris? Why did Becky name her baby after the woman that basically tortured her mother and aunt? I have so many questions as to why they will be making more seasons. Alicia Goranson couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag. Darlene is such a sour puss she played the EXACT same character she did from the 80s, but in everything she's in. When she was on Big Bang Theory, she still had the personality of a wet washcloth, I don't know how she's able to get someone as awesome as Ben, though he is better for her than the sniveling David. The more Harris is just herself the more I hate her. And being total AHs when they have a guest over that just happens to be supporting another football team. Jackie is just a miserable old spinster with the worst Karen haircut.

This is how these writers see people in poverty? It's insulting.

Maybe some if these bad reviews are not based on the show itself but on people's anger that Rosanne was fired. I thought the writing and the acting were as good as anything in the original. Rosanne picked the cast and set the tone so I guess that's a tribute to her. I thought her tweets were offensive but she's a comedienne, not the president, so holding her to a higher standard seems kind of unfair. . I think the show will go on without her. Darlene was always my favorite character anyway.

I have watched all the episodes so far because I want to like this show. I loved the original and still enjoy the reruns so much. However, the new show is simply not good. I love Laurie Metcalf but she is horribly overplaying her character much like she did in the original runs last season. I don't know who told her this was the way to go, but it's awful. Goodman looks bored and seems like he's forcing his lines. Sara Gilbert seems to be trying to fill the void left by Roseanne and she's just not up to it. Darlene was an interesting teenage character but her flat, monotone one-liners just don't deliver. As for the rest of the cast, there's too many extra characters and very little character development. If I'm supposed to care about any of the grandkids, they need to be featured more than a couple minutes each week. What made the original so good was the relationships - Roseanne was at the center of that with Dan, Jackie, Becky and Darlene. I gave it a chance, I think I'll stick with the reruns and take a pass on this.

It's not even funny anymore. I don't even live in America and yet I can see that when they fired Roseanne it's just lost it's heart of the show. First of all I just watched the whole seasons of original Roseanne series last week. And I actually found the first 4-5 seasons of roseanne was good but I did find the last few seasons of the show just not that good or funny and season 10 (the reboot one) kinda cringy but that's understandable cause I feel like the casts were trying to find their chemistry again after decades haven't been working together. Whatever your opinion is about Roseanne I think this show just went downhill without her and even though Metcalf and John Goodman tried so hard to elevate the show sadly it's just not enough. It evolves now around the Sara Gilbert character that is so no interesting at all and she's not that good of a comedians and she just brings down the show everytime she's in the scene. She's just not funny! And she's just a bummer like everytime she's in the scene it's like she brings the moods down. I feel like the reason why ABC still keeping it even though it's gained negative reviews from everywhere and even though the ratings is shot, the President I feel like have a personal vendetta with Roseanne and therefore she's keeping the show just to stick it to Roseanne. It's like "hey look we fired you from a show that you created with characters that you also created and we still gonna keep on making this atrocity of a show just to stick it to you Roseanne!"

It's painful to watch the character Darlene as the seasons go on. It seems like the writers wanted to make the character the most selfish, rude, mean and unhappy woman in the world, and it's not funny. No one would hopefully put up with anyone that awful in their life, so how did she get a handsome, caring, intelligent husband, a successful career, non-suicidal children... The beauty of Roseanne was that it showed us the real world, recognizing the truth about living from paycheck to paycheck, but still finding humor and joy in it. But that formula seems to be missing the main ingredients on this show. How disappointing in too many ways. The 5 is for everyone, mainly wonderful Ms. Metcalf! If only the show centered around wonderful Metcalf perhaps we could see hope and joy in the doldroms of reality.