Roseanne was one of the most popular sitcoms of the late 80's and '90s. We checked in and out of that show, usually drifting away after a half dozen episodes. Becky kept us coming back, though. She was cute.
Frankly we could never really relate. Of course we couldn't, we were upper-middle-class and grew up in a nice cul-de-sac surrounded not just by trees, but actual forest.We pretty much went to Ridgemont High. Both our parents wore suits to work. Our folks never wore flannel or blue jeans. As we recall none of the kids went to college, something unthinkable in familia de Stroock.
Also Roseanne took place in the Chicago burbs and we were New Yorkers.
Roseanne was about a working class family, and as we recall in the first episode they had an extra $500 bucks and this was a big deal.
On Fox yesterday Jesse Watters noted that this was the first sitcom about working-class people in a long time. Every other sitcom on the network seems to be about a nice suburbanite white-collar family living in a four bedroom house, Blackish, Fresh off the Boat, etc etc. TV has certainly been geared to my demographic for some time. This just goes to show how parochial the entertainment industry is.
Hotair wonders if the success of the Roseanne re-launch is a big deal in the culture wars. It beat the pants off the Will & Grace reboot, which is certainly not about working class people. People have been raving all week about the political back and forth between Deplorable Roseanne and her Hillary supporting sister, so something is going on.
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