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.

This show has lost it's sense of humor. Very depressing.

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.

The first few episodes of this season were kind of a downer and only sorta funny but after that it slowly got some of the biting humor back that the original series had. Once they got away from Roseann's death and back to daily life things, the show started getting better. I'm glad I stuck with it and gave it a chance.

Yes, it sucks that Roseanne is absent, but I've always enjoyed the supporting cast. I think that they're holding their own pretty well in this series. It's funny to me and it doesn't feel much different than the original series, other than the obvious being that Rosie isn't there. Great acting here and I can appreciate it.