The Roseanne revival is incredibly honest about life in Trump's America
Source: Vox, by Todd VanDerWerff
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What makes Roseanne Conner’s Trump support such an interesting idea to build an episode of television around is the way it blissfully wanders into one of 2018 pop culture’s demilitarized zones: Entertainment can be for Trump supporters or for those who don’t like Trump, but it’s not supposed to be for both.
And for both white progressives and white conservatives who share a family (yes, there are people of color struggling with these political divides in their own families, but this is overwhelmingly an issue for white families), this is a constant fact of life in 2018 America: Can we still love each other? Can we work this out? Should we work this out? The answers are as varied as these families are, but Roseanne takes the simple idea of living in 2018 without killing your family members — or even just dying yourself — and builds a whole season of a TV show around it.
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Roseanne has always been about the big gap between the American dream and the American reality for too many people. When I cite the original series’ “vague progressivism,” I don’t really mean that it had a coherent political framework so much as it believed in the idea that the American dream was too often hoarded by those who least needed access to it, who then parceled it out in little chunks to those further down the ladders of economic, racial, and social privilege. It called, week after week, not for revolution but for understanding that people like the Conners were out there and just trying their best.
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That makes Roseanne sound like some sort of dark elegy for a forgotten America, I realize, and maybe it is that. But it’s also funny and vibrant and warm. It takes a little while to rediscover its rhythms, but once it does, it feels tuned in to its world and its country in a way few sitcoms are anymore. There are punchlines in these episodes that don’t land because the audience seems scared to laugh at how raw they are. Good, I think. This show has always been better when the humor comes peppered with fear.
Read it all at: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/27/17165928/roseanne-review-revival-abc-trump
Twenty years later - none of us are the same.
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But then, you never get to greet your relatives with, "Hello, Deplorables!" 
Context: She insisted on wearing that outfit for a photo shoot with millennial Jewish magazine HEEB. And she is of Jewish heritage.
Seems no one wants to answer you. 
But, somehow, it's being conflated into a cable politics show?
It's only a "thirty minute" show - and a comedy.
Aren't we past 'token' yet?
I dream of the day this doesn't even cross one's mind. 
+1 a million times
"Maybe this isn't a laughing matter..."
Unless it's billed as a sit-com. Which it is. So it is.
I get it... it's fun to pretend so much tolerance for the sake of self-righteousness at the expense of others for simply not watching a sitcom.
I knew what was comin' - I started watchin' this show in late '80's!
I don't care if anyone doesn't watch the show. Just don't review it if you don't! 
I don't see life through one single lens. It's too limiting.
If you read the article/review, you will understand what the writer is conveying.
But you don't have to!
Come with what you got before you saw the show you will never watch! 
'cause 'old fahts' like me are the only one's left watching TV! 
If you have excellent firewall and anti-virus, the episodes are "shared" all over the internet.
Looks like a lot of families in the USA today.
That's fine.
Watch or don't watch.
Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, others?
All tainted, too? 
As I said elsewhere, I’m just thrilled that this DU tempest about a sitcom has knocked Stormy off the front page in GD.
Broadcast TV. Cord cutting. Internet. Smart phones.
Who are the only people who have a digital antenna hooked up to their TV? People who watched all these old shows! 
Adding to my queue.
