Rest Of Roseanne Episodes Will ‘Piss Off Conservatives’ According To Executive Producer

So it turns out that the ratings for the Roseanne reboot were even better than originally thought. They keep climbing, in fact – and now total 25 million viewers and 7.3 rating among adults 18-49.  And that doesn’t include the folks who will stream it via Hulu or another streaming source.

Daisy and I talked about this on our show this morning.  She hasn’t had a chance to watch it, but plans to, and I watched it On Demand a day or so after the fact.  I honestly can’t understand why liberals are so upset, given that there were just as many jokes made at conservatives’ expense as there were liberals’.  It was a very equal opportunity show.

But apparently, liberals only wanna see/hear entertainment that makes them feel 100% validated 100% of the time, and so HEAVEN FORBID that there’s a TV show that represents middle/working class American families.

Welp, liberals might be in luck if they tune in the rest of the season, because according to this,  one executive producer of the show, Whitney Cummings, said, “We keep saying that the first episode is going to piss off liberals and the other eight are going to piss off conservatives.”

Yeah.  So brace yourselves.

This won’t make me tune in any less, by the way, because if the first episode was any indication, it’ll still be a fair representation all the way around.  But I suspect that there might be some disappointed conservatives as the rest of the season unfolds.

Another tidbit from the same sourcelink (and you may have noticed this in the opener) – is that Trump’s name was never mentioned.  Neither was Hillary’s.  The only political name mentioned was Jill Stein.  And there is no plan to mention Trump’s name in any of the rest of the nine episodes of this season. Sara Gilbert (who plays daughter Darlene and also is an exec producer of the series) confirmed, “The Conners aren’t Trump supporters. Roseanne’s character is a Trump supporter — she’s the only one — and we never say his name, actually, in the show.”

Gilbert goes on to explain that the show isn’t really about politics, but instead about what “happens to a family when there’s a political divide.” But as Whitney Cummings pointed out, the rest of the 8 remaining episodes of this season are “going to piss off conservatives” so how much or how little politics plays into the storyline remains to be seen.

So for those of you who watched and loved the first two episodes, are you going to hang in there?  I hope you do. 🙂