The 2025 TV schedule marked the top of an period for considered one of TV’s most celebrated sitcom households, with ABC’s The Conners becoming a member of a slew of different sequence ending this yr, although not one of the others on that listing had fairly the identical lifespan as Roseanne’s successor. The spinoff’s run ended with a shortened seventh season, following the flagship’s ill-fated tenth, and within the years because the O.G. sitcom was canceled, the comedienne has shared loads of disdain for it and EP Sara Gilbert. However now?
Barr’s newest feedback on The Conners come by the use of her son Jake Pentland, who additionally serves as her consultant. (He additionally performed a paper boy and one other anonymous child in two episodes of Roseanne.) And whereas her ideas should not completely contextual to the follow-up sitcom’s conclusion — Pentland mentioned he wasn’t even cognizant that it was ending — the vibe appears to have shifted from vengeful vitriol to DGAF passivity.
Within the aftermath of the finale, Jake Pentland informed TMZ that although his mother and the remainder of the household are nonetheless of the idea that she was unfairly pressured out of a profitable TV enterprise, that they’re joyful that the crew engaged on the present(s) for all these years had been in a position to make a dwelling for thus lengthy on one thing she was chargeable for creating. Maybe not probably the most humble method, however that’s neither right here nor there.
Based on Pentland, Roseanne & Co. are on the level the place they’re content material with the present state of affairs now that The Conners is over and the remnants of Roseanne’s run received’t proceed to be an on-air sticking level. Maybe the shortage of Lanford will enable for a reliable stretch of peacetime.
What Roseanne Barr Has Beforehand Mentioned About The Conners
Whereas the conservative-leaning comic would simply rip The Conners aside willy-nilly with out provocation, Barr has never been vulnerable to biting her tongue when particularly requested for her ideas in interviews. Early on, she went as far as to spoil her character being killed off, and after the continuation sequence did simply that in its premiere, she stored to a extra middle-of-the-road stance, saying on the time:
I am not going to curse it or bless it. I am staying impartial. That is what I do. I am staying impartial. I am staying away from it. Not wishing unhealthy on anybody, and I do not want good for my enemies. I do not. I can not. I simply keep impartial.
That neutrality shifted over time, and as not too long ago as 2023, she tore into Sara Gilbert for not defending her on the time she was fired, and for persevering with to speak in regards to the state of affairs on her speak present, saying:
Sara Gilbert was on The Speak, and it wasn’t sufficient that she stabbed me within the again and did what she did to me there, however then she would go on her speak present day-after-day and speak about how shocked she was at my racism on high of it, and it was day-after-day.
Regardless of that stress, former co-star John Goodman mentioned in June 2023 that their time collectively was nice, that he nonetheless loves her, and that he was by no means snug seeing her spoken ailing of within the press.
I do not essentially suppose that each one these fences are going to instantly be mended now that Dan, Becky, Darlene and Jackie aren’t primetime staples anymore, however I actually do hope there will not be any additional beef among the many former forged members, and {that a} day would possibly come once we see Barr, Goodman and Laurie Metcalf sharing the display screen once more, with others definitely welcome to affix this hypothetical want venture.
The Conners’ last two episodes, “Train Bands, Cash Plans, and Faraway Lands” and “The Truck Stops Right here,” gave followers their last hour with the core household and the entire new additions that joined up alongside the best way, from Nat Faxon’s Neville to Katey Sagal’s Louise. Almost your complete clan (save for the long-gone D.J. and his fam) took a visit to the cemetary to share type phrases for the dearly departed. Or, possibly simply phrases, if not all the time so type.
Harris’ minimalist reflection on the Lunch Field’s meals truly being good now acquired a giant snigger out of me, I will admit. However I might love to listen to Barr’s ideas about that scene specifically.
Followers can try all ten seasons of Roseanne in full with a Peacock subscription, whereas The Conners is obtainable with a Disney+ subscription.