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Alicia Goranson and Sara Gilbert play Becky and Darlene on ABC The conners.
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Alicia Goranson and Sara Gilbert play Becky and Darlene on ABC The conners.
Eric McCandless / ABC
Two groups of people do not care at all about how the first episode of The conners – Roseanne without Roseanne – was. The first group did not care because they found Roseanne Barr the real person so personally and / or politically that it was unwise to avoid this project, created by a network and a team willing to work with her until to recently, is a matter of principle. The second group socks because they are so offended by her dismissal – technically, by the cancellation of the show she was associated with and the reenactment of a show that she insists emphatically. do not on – that avoiding this project, created by the network and the team is happening without it, is a matter of principle.
But there are those whose interest will depend on how the series itself works from the first, and for them, I answer that the answer is: hit and miss. (And I also say: here there are "spoilers" by which I mean descriptions of what happened on the episode I am watching.)
Surprisingly, the failures are largely in the comedy department. There are some very clumsy jokes in this first half hour as the writers try to balance the new (not really surprising) that Roseanne Conner has died with the need to make at least a few laugh. The black comedy around death was actually a force of the old Roseanne. (Please, see the greatness of Laurie Metcalf screaming "DAD'S DEAD!") But here is a first battle to find the foot – with the comedy MVP being Alicia Goranson, whose vision of the independent adult Becky remains strong.
The character of Geena, the DJ's wife (now played by Maya Lynne Robinson, who replaces Xosha Roquemore, seen once last season via Skype), was presented without much context. We did not see her much with DJ, so what we know of her remains more narrated than shown. She was quick to joke about Darlene's need to find Jesus, a scene that did not work at all. Obviously, the idea is that the family knows her – even if they seem to have spent a little time with her because she is a soldier – but the public does not know. And lightening her character by giving Darlene a lecture on religion, with rather wet jokes, was not the best way to serve the actress or the story.
But Roseanne was always more than just funny; it dealt with family, conflict and relationships. And there, the first episode of The conners excels The announcement that Roseanne is not dead from a heart attack as believed by the family, but rather from an opioid overdose (result of addiction to painkillers that the series began to explore last season) hits hard. Nobody harder than Dan (John Goodman), who thought he had managed to clean the tablets from home and was heartbroken to learn that Roseanne still had them – and had hidden them from her.
There is also a delicate scene between Darlene (Sara Gilbert) and Jackie (Metcalf) who suggests that even though they are in mourning, they are also trying to bond. And maybe they hope this link is healthier than the one they sometimes had with Roseanne herself. There are many things to explore here regarding Darlene's dueling desires to become the best part of her mother and to avoid becoming her mother's worst. And Jackie always seemed too dependent on Roseanne's family to give her a personal life, and her determination to rearrange the kitchen is the way to visualize it, although the times when they wanted this development to be fun, not really successful .
It is hard to say what the future holds for this family from a narrative point of view. It's hard to know how much of this season writers intend to devote to punishment. There is certainly enough history with these characters to make a fantastic show. But it must be funnier, otherwise it will not survive like a comedy.
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