Anyone else watch The Conners last night? (Minus Roseanne) It looks promising....

[Hekate]

I was curious about how they would resolve the absence of the central character, and they really did quite well. The LA Times gave a good review about how the other characters are having a chance to shine -- and I agree. Spoiler alert, my prediction about opioids was correct.

There's lots of dismal news today. If you'd like to talk about a sitcom for a little while, hop in.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. How did they kill her off?

[cabot]

3. The cause of death was...

an OD on opiods. It was well done.

[peekaloo]

9. Was she in mid tweet when she died?

[cabot]

10. No..lol . n/t

[workinclasszero]

15. And on the toilet like her hero?

[peekaloo]

18. all that straining from the blockage brought on by opioids

can kill ya!

[workinclasszero]

19. LOL

[Docreed2003]

23. Just ask Elvis

[Hekate]

20. Died in her sleep of a heart attack. But the Coroner's report showed she was full of opioid meds...

The opening scene is 3 weeks after the funeral. They are trying to get all the casserole dishes washed up ready to return. Jackie is frenetic, trying to clean and reorganize the kitchen, trying to clean the house, trying to -- make her sister come back.

Roseanne had knee surgery and got hooked, and no one knew she was hooked. The Coroner's report comes in the mail, and is a big shock.

Dan has a very hard time with this -- based on one Rx Jackie finds, he very publicly blames the woman whose name is on it, to the extent of taping a placard on his truck. The woman finally shows up at the door one night in tears to tell him there's a whole lot of neighbors who cannot afford their prescriptions, so they hoard what they can and share what they can. "Roseanne's knee wasn't healing right, so I gave her those, and now I have to live with that."

Jackie, continuing to clean house, starts finding more pills in baggies, hidden all over. The truth is clear.

I based my prediction on the pilot show of the Roseanne reboot. It opens with her at the kitchen table, counting out medications for herself and Dan, wondering if/when they can afford to refill them and how to make them stretch. It establishes their socioeconomic niche, one which has been particularly hard hit by the opioid epidemic, and I remembered that.

[nolabear]

24. Good recap. And Mary Steenburgen!

That was some brave acting. She looked like hell! She was made down and letting every agony show. I admire that.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Nope nada zilch and once the show gets off the ground my guess is they will put her back onit

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. They killed her, so they'd have to make her a zombie for that to happen.

A show featuring Zombie Roseanne might be kind of interesting, though.

[Fullduplexxx]

12. Well in the original series dan died is he zombie dan now?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. He did? I only watched a few episodes early on - didn't know he'd been done in.

[LanternWaste]

6. My guess is unicorns will feature in Game of Thrones.

Granted, I don't watch the Game of Thrones, but as we're simply guessing about things we know very little of...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. Yep. Disney isn't going to resurrect Roseanne's career .

[Fullduplexxx]

13. Am i not allow to guess? I didnt see that in tos

[atreides1]

26. Not this time!

She signed over the character rights to ABC...and I don't see ABC bringing her back from the dead!!!

[cabot]

4. It does look promising

I watched it and thought it was pretty good. More like "classic" Roseanne than the reboot. I'll watching again.

Thought Mary Steenburgen did a great job - I hope they bring her back.

[In_The_Wind]

8. I thought last night's show was well done. I'll watch it again.

[skypilot]

11. I watched out of curiosity...

...to see how they'd explain Roseanne's absence and I thought it was a bit too sad and morbid. Especially after Dan's death, or rather "death". I'm still not quite clear on how they unraveled that one.

[Hekate]

21. In Original Roseanne it was the old soap opera "it was all a dream" ploy. He was dead.

In Reboot Roseanne, the opening scene is actually quite funny. They are in bed. It's early morning. Dan has a CPAP mask on his face, whooshing away. Roseanne wakes up, sits bolt upright, and shrieks, "I thought you was DEAD!" Dan fights off his mask and says, "Nope. Still alive."

In The Conners Minus Roseanne, she is really most sincerely dead. She ain't comin' back.

I'm really not a fan of Roseanne's work, but it is hard to avoid. My gods, the reruns were on forever. So I watched the pilot of Reboot Roseanne, which I did not like much, just to see what they would do with it.

Without Roseanne -- I am definitely going to give The Conners a try.

[workinclasszero]

14. I've got it taped

will watch soon.

The way Roseanne the Trump lover kicked the bucket is appropriate.

Or she could have gone out as an insane gun humper killer on a mass shooting spree.

Either way.

[GoCubsGo]

17. I saw it.

It was actually much closer to the original was than the "Roseanne" revival. Which is a good thing. The previous version seemed forced, and it appears the writers took that criticism to heart with this new iteration. My only difficulty was getting used to John Goodman. He's lost a ton of weight--even since the other series.

Speaking of "forced"... The show that followed it... WOOF! I'll go back to watching the "Chicago P.D." rerun, like I had been.

[Hekate]

22. The show that followed-- you mean the one with the eight boys? Yikes that was awful in every way.nt

[GoCubsGo]

25. Yeah, that one.

It was "The Wonder Years" meets the stereotypical-Catholic version of "The Goldbergs", both of which are/were very good shows. This one is not.