The Conners

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.

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!"

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.

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.

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.