there has been an enormous amount of misinformation about the show this year. I've seen pundits I otherwise respect go off on a real tangent about the show, all the while revealig that they didn't know anything more about it than that Roseanne is a Trump supporter.
I watched all 9 shows (tho inadvertently missed the first half of the last show). ONLY the premiere episode mentioned Trump or anything about him, and I found the treatment superb. This is what happened (in that first show):
Rosanne and her sister Jackie hadn't spoken in a year or more because she supported Trump and Jackie didn't. R's daugher (and her2 kids) came to live there and Darlene decided to get the 2 back together so she engineered for Jackie to come over.
Jackie arrives wearing her knitted hot pink "pussy' hat, and standing in the doorway she said something about "deplorables" before coming in. I don't remember the exact comment (joke).
There were tensions and finally, at the dinner table, Jackie shouted, Rosanne, how COULD you? Rosanne said, "Jackie, he talked about jobs, about shaking things up. You may not remember we almost lost our house last year."
Jackie retorted, "Well, have you seen the news? Things are WORSE." Rosanne shot back: "Not on the REAL news." (I found that whole exchange poignant and hilarious.)
They ended up a little later making up and being family again.
There have been NO OTHER MENTIONS of Trump or indeed anything partisan in any of the 8 episodes after that, at least that I saw. Plenty of political stuff -- just not partisan. Things like how expensive healthcare is, the opioid crisis, little boys who want to dress like little girls, surrogate motherhood, a Muslim family next door that gets a raw deal (and Rosanne ends up helping them out). Other stuff not too dissimilar. Pretty leftwing stuff, actually.
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So anyway, I must be a terrible, terrible person because I won't full-throatedly denounce the show. HER vile statement today? Unbelievably vile. Beneath anyone who has a voice or face in front of the public.
But the show itself, on which she shared the Executive Producer job with Sarah Gilbert, was never what most of its critics tried, ignorantly, to make it. I personally had other complaints about it -- everyone was stiff and tight until about the last episode. Sarah Gilbert didn't smile once that I saw, and Jackie was just plain old shrill in her delivery most of the time. And so forth. But it was NOT what most people -- again, people who never saw anything beyond press reports or at best the even-handed Premiere episode -- think it was.
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