The fun begins with the return of Roseanne’s sister Jackie, played by Laurie Metcalf, who is now a pussy-hat wearing feminist, enraged at Roseanne for voting against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Election. As for DJ Conner, played by Michael Fishman, he is a now war veteran with an African-American child and a wife who is fighting overseas. Roseanne and Dan’s oldest child Becky, played by Lecy Goranson, has announced her plans to become a surrogate mother after falling on hard times herself. Darlene Conner, played once again by Sara Gilbert, is forced to move back in with Roseanne and Dan after falling on hard times. In Episode 1, we catch up with the Barr family after all these years.
Her husband Dan, played by John Goodman, is continually at her side to either push her buttons or retreat to his beer out in the garage – just the way we remember them. Roseanne Barr reprises her role is the matriarch of the Conner family, who’s constantly trying to juggle her home life with the creeping influence of every “ism” in today’s world. The first episode aired on March 27th of this year, and has not lost its spark. In 2017, the ABC network announced the revival of Roseanne, the much-beloved sitcom of a working-class family trying to make life work in suburban Illinois. Which brings me to the latest ABC reboot of the year. In a time where politics always rears its ugly head at just the right moment, all anyone can do is look back to the “good old days” when everyone just sat around, drank, and watched TV. Depending on who you ask, America is either on its way to “greatness” under Donald J.