I never cared for Donald Trump – his public persona, at least.<\/p>\n
And I certainly have never been a big fan of Roseanne Barr.<\/p>\n
The debut of the reboot of\u00a0Rosanne\u00a0<\/em>shows what I know, I guess.<\/p>\n Roseanne made a triumphant return Tuesday night, blowing past projections with a 5.2 adults 18-49 rating and 18.2 million total viewers for the debut of its revival, which drew 10% more viewers than the original series finale 21 years ago.<\/p>\n While nostalgia was expected to bring in eyeballs, no one predicted such a huge turnout on premiere night for the blue-collar family sitcom with a Donald Trump-supporting protagonist, especially among the younger demographic. But then, few predicted that Trump would become the Republican nominee and would win the presidential election when he first announced his candidacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But one thing that\u00a0has\u00a0<\/em>become predictable is that liberal Hollywood and New York are shocked, shocked, that people in “flyover land” can take a break from fawning over Los Angeles and New York-centered, virtue-signal-clogged, impeccably progressive entertainment to partake in a little of (let’s be honest) the cultural Resistance:<\/p>\n But it worked, leaving many TV insiders shellshocked today by the magnitude of the revival\u2019s ratings success that revealed the untapped potential of comedies that provide realistic portrayal of blue-collar America. What\u2019s more, Roseanne did that while also making a social commentary, something rarely seen since All in the Family, Norman Lear\u2019s 1970s classic that has long been rumored to get a reboot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Y’know what’d be fun (and never, never get greenlit)?\u00a0 \u00a0A reboot of\u00a0All in the Family\u00a0<\/em>with a crusty, intolerant patriarch who was a former hippie, longtime “progressive” activist and virtue-signaling bigot, whose daughter marries a hard-working conservative square-stater.<\/p>\n That\u00a0<\/em>would be a fun reboot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I never cared for Donald Trump – his public persona, at least. And I certainly have never been a big fan of Roseanne Barr. The debut of the reboot of\u00a0Rosanne\u00a0shows what I know, I guess. Roseanne made a triumphant return Tuesday night, blowing past projections with a 5.2 adults 18-49 rating and 18.2 million total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-66455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","tag-unexpected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66456,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66455\/revisions\/66456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}