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The first thing to say about the ninth season ofRoseanneis that it is a mess.
So what is the newRoseannegoing to do withthat?
What shouldwedo with it?
After years of working in uncertain, unstable blue-collar jobs, the Conner family literally wins the lottery.
Most of season nine happens without Dan.
Steven Seagal shows up at the end.
Then the other shoe drops.
Dan did not actually recover from his heart attack, Roseanne tells us.
Elsewhereending, a retroactive declaration that all the bad stuff was a dream.
Like the finale itself, the revival is another way to erase everything about season nine.
From the perspective of online grid TV storytelling, though, it makes much more sense.
Season nine ofRoseanneis like a homunculus of Roseanne Barrs fears and aspirations.
If you ignore season nine, you also ignore a locus for one of the central questions of theRoseannerevival.
Maybe probably thats a good thing.
Only a tiny bit, though.
That season nine episode in the Hamptons isreallyrocky.
