Back in Lanford for the second season without the banshee. Didn’t actually think they would renew this one but am glad they did. An excellent comedy and cast.

I love the Conners with or without Rosie. It's a true ensemble cast. Everyone's got plenty of dimensionality, plenty of screen time, plenty of pathos, plenty of story. Great show that is what it is.

For a spin off of a derailed reboot, this show might have landed on its feet. It attempts to be edgy and progressive in every way possible in constant small doses. It inserts elements of the current political climate in an ironic way. Slightly more entertaining than boring. (edit) Show has been awhile now. I do not recommend. 4/10.

Maybe like the original Rosanne I'll come back and watch all of this but it just feels like too much liberal shit. The mastery of the original Rosanne was it allowed all voices to be heard to understand one and another. It feels like the Conners just got to the point where it just focused entirely on the "liberal" voices (the kids and Jackie) in the original show. Dan gets out of the way, and there's no balance. But the real problem is the show isn't funny. Rosanne Barr had a strange heart in the original show, and as much as I love Katey Segal she can't really replace Rosanne's character. Ultimately it means the Conners just kind of lingers on, and I am not really sure why. It reaches the "Simpsons" point of life around season 2-3, where people just ask themselves "Why is that still on" but it just lingers on the tv. A shame, because the original Rosanne Show is a perfect look at the poor families that was misunderstood by many elites who never saw poverty outside of Married With Children. Now the Conners is just written by those elites who don't understand poverty and refuse to try.

I like the show more without Roseanne. Other characters have more time to breathe without a very loud Roseanne. Pretty solid show what lives mostly on the likable characters.