On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 8:15 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm with PGage. I don't know why, but I stopped watching the original > series after a few seasons. Guess I just didn't like it anymore. > > The series gained popularity in part due to Barr’s early stand up success, but the creators of the series built on more than that; the characters on the show faced real problems in a way viewers could relate to. Then Rosanne’s personality took over and she demanded the producers either be fired or take a backseat to her direction. That’s when many lost interest in the series as it became cartoonish and slapstick. Roseanne wanted she and Metcalf to be a modern day Lucy & Ethel, but one-note sitcoms ceased to be a novelty when TV was still in black & white. Setting aside her vile politics is no easy task, but Roseanne as a person was simply unpleasant. But in 2018 America, she’s not an asshole, she’s “real.” She’s not a racist with bad ideas, she’s “unafraid to speak unpopular opinions.” That’s where we are as a nation... again. I endured two weeks on the set of her mercifully short lived daytime talk show; it was the tail end of its run, and I was just a temp helping out someone I knew. The tension in the studio and in the production office was as high as I’d ever seen. It was quiet, and that’s unheard of in a tv production office. Nobody spoke, or if they did it was in whispers, for fear of disturbing the dragon. I’ve never worked a show with that many miserable people. I didn’t really talk about it or write about it as a favor to the person who hired me to work there, and because the crew didn’t need kerosene poured onto the fire. I knew I wouldn’t be there long; others were not as lucky. > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 1:33 AM PGage, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I stopped watching Roseanne somewhere around season 3, around the time I >> could no longer differentiate between her intentional humor (which can be >> among the best) and her psychopathology. I still can’t, so won’t be >> watching whatever number season this is. I don’t care about her politics >> and wish her well. I hope she takes some pleasure in fact that her reboot >> (wherever the numbers settle) will do better than a Cosby reboot would. >> >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 3:25 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Then this happened: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/president-trump-congratulates-roseanne-ratings-success-1202738940/ >>>> >>> >>> I saw somewhere that the show goes to its family dynamic and ignores >>> politics in the second episode. So if ratings fall, and they most likely >>> will as curious viewers have had enough, we get to hear Trump blather that >>> ratings fell because they are not talking about him. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
