How long will THE CONNERS last?

[samhexum]

Jackie is now Dan's sister in law to the 2nd power.

She was his first wife's sister, now she's married to his second wife's brother.

And Dan's new son in law is his boss.

[samhexum]

DESIGNING WOMEN's favorite madame (Charlene's childhood friend Monette) has entertained her last client.  Her son is married to Darlene Conner.

[samhexum]

In what is sure to be a devastating blow to fans of the show, DJ will not appear in the upcoming season, though his daughter will remain a recurring character.

[BuffaloKyle]

9 hours ago, samhexum said:

In what is sure to be a devastating blow to fans of the show, DJ will not appear in the upcoming season, though his daughter will remain a recurring character.

I wouldn't have even realized he was no longer there. As I posted before he really brings nothing to the storyline. 

[BuffaloKyle]

I just watched the season premiere. Glad they finally shot a new opening! Was just an ok episode. Having Mark (who seems to get taller and taller) & Harris get drunk reminded me of the Roseanne storyline where Becky & her friend got drunk. That one was much funnier. Not sure what path this season is going to take besides Darlene & Ben moving into their new home.

[samhexum]

9 minutes ago, BuffaloKyle said:

I just watched the season premiere. Glad they finally shot a new opening! Was just an ok episode. Having Mark (who seems to get taller and taller) & Harris get drunk reminded me of the Roseanne storyline where Becky & her friend got drunk. That one was much funnier. Not sure what path this season is going to take besides Darlene & Ben moving into their new home.

I just realized...  DJ's overseas reuniting with his wife, and the whole family went away in the episode... did we see DJ's kid?  Where was she?  She's supposedly still living with them.

[samhexum]

THE CONNERS is apparently intent on employing every member of the SHAMELESS cast. William H. Macy-Huffman will guest star in an upcoming episode.

[samhexum]

pretty good episode this week.

[samhexum]

Rumor has it that George Clooney may be the mystery guest star they've been hyping all season.

Dan's & Jackie's mother in law is an ignorant slut.

 

[handiacefailure]

On 9/24/2022 at 7:46 PM, samhexum said:

I just realized...  DJ's overseas reuniting with his wife, and the whole family went away in the episode... did we see DJ's kid?  Where was she?  She's supposedly still living with them.

I’m still wondering what happened to Jerry and Jackies kid (I think his name was Andy).   It’s like they didn’t exist.   Also wonder what happened that Bev is no longer gay.

The character I really miss is Leon.   He might be as funny though now that Roseanne isnt on the show.   I loved the way they would bicker.  

[BuffaloKyle]

Jayden Rey who played DJ's daughter Mary won't be back for the final season. Although the article says she won't return as a series regular which makes me think she could be back for one or two episodes. No word on if DJ will appear but guessing no if she is not. The article headline goes a bit overboard though calling her a major character. I don't think I would have even noticed her missing if you didn't tell me.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/the-conners-loses-major-character-ahead-of-season-6/ar-AA1mnitb?OCID=ansmsnnews11

 

[Ali Gator]

This show is still on ? I gave it a chance for the first season (it was decent) but then it became unwatchable by seasons 2 and 3. I can't believe it has lasted this long. 

[samhexum]

Dan, Darlene, Becky & Jackie will get 6 episodes next fall to wrap things up.

[samhexum]

Lecy Goranson wrote last night's episode. She wrote one episode in season four; the one about gun violence. And she was credited for the storyline for an episode in season two.

[Ali Gator]

I can't believe ABC renewed this for a seventh season. What are they thinking ?

[BuffaloKyle]

On 5/12/2024 at 2:28 PM, Ali Gator said:

I can't believe ABC renewed this for a seventh season. What are they thinking ?

I just found this out yesterday! I was wondering why on my TV guide it was coming up as a season finale and not series finale on the episode description for tonight. It's only going to be six episodes though as @samhexum pointed out. I'm guessing the writers had a pretty solid idea of what they wanted to do for the final season and after the strikes wiped out a good chunk of episodes they needed to come back next year.

[samhexum]

1 minute ago, BuffaloKyle said:

I just found this out yesterday! I was wondering why on my TV guide it was coming up as a season finale and not series finale on the episode description for tonight. It's only going to be six episodes though as @samhexum pointed out. I'm guessing the writers had a pretty solid idea of what they wanted to do for the final season and after the strikes wiped out a good chunk of episodes they needed to come back next year.

I'm glad they are getting the chance for an appropriate send-off, but the truth is that the writing has been quite weak this season.  Lots of scenes of characters acting stupidly...  The scene at the bank last night, Jackie at Louise's school board speech, Darlene with Mark's counselor in the cafeteria, just to mention three.

And did you think Dan was going to re-mortgage the house to pay for Mark's college? 

[BuffaloKyle]

37 minutes ago, samhexum said:

I'm glad they are getting the chance for an appropriate send-off, but the truth is that the writing has been quite weak this season.  Lots of scenes of characters acting stupidly...  The scene at the bank last night, Jackie at Louise's school board speech, Darlene with Mark's counselor in the cafeteria, just to mention three.

And did you think Dan was going to re-mortgage the house to pay for Mark's college? 

The episode last week was pretty good. The scene with Mark coming home drunk and going off on Becky & Darlene was really good and the scene on the plane with Dan & Jackie was great too. This gives a chance as well next season to bring back David one more time maybe and George Clooney although I don't see how he would fit in to any storyline other than just a quick run in somehow since Jackie has Neville and they are good together. Plus Bev is still on the loose somewhere and they need to have her back. I have wanted Leon to appear too in an episode! Mark just needs to take on a butt load of student loans or get a sugar daddy and college will be solved.

Edited May 22, 2024 by BuffaloKyle

[Marc in Calif]

On 7/26/2022 at 2:15 AM, samhexum said:

DESIGNING WOMEN's favorite madame (Charlene's childhood friend Monette) has entertained her last client.  Her son is married to Darlene Conner.

Wrong.

But congrats on yet another snide reference in a snidely worded announcement of the death of someone you don't even have the decency to mention by name. So typical. 

[samhexum]

25 minutes ago, Marc in Calif said:

Wrong.

But congrats on yet another snide reference in a snidely worded announcement of the death of someone you don't even have the decency to mention by name. So typical. 

Wrong.

But congrats on yet another snide comment.

Bobbie Faye Ferguson, Actress and Mother of ‘Conners’ Star Jay R. Ferguson, Dies at 78

 

Designing Women

• Monette Marlin
• 'Monica'

• 1987–1989

• 3 episodes

[samhexum]

Jackie's hubby is going to play Alexander Hamilton in an episode of GHOSTS.

[samhexum]

Sheldon's mother will appear in two episodes of THE CONNERS, playing scenes opposite Sheldon's mother.

 

[BuffaloKyle]

Final season premieres this Wednesday night!

[samhexum]

I just watched the second episode.  

I was curious whether Jane Lynch would be playing one of her obnoxiously overbearing characters or one of her overbearingly obnoxious ones.  She's so versatile she can play both... and always does.

Not one thing differentiated this performance from the same one she has given every single time since GLEE.  Fortunately she wasn't able to ruin the episode... the writers did that all on their own.

 

Edited April 8 by samhexum
for absolutely NO @%!*ING reason at all!

[samhexum]

On 4/7/2025 at 10:46 AM, samhexum said:

I just watched the second episode.  

I haven't watched any more yet but read this commentary and agree with it a lot:

The Conners far exceeded anyone’s expectations — including my own. Having risen from the ashes of the Roseannerevival in 2018, this quasi-spinoff went on to run an astounding seven seasons, falling just two seasons shy of matching its predecessor’s original nine-season run. But along the way, the powers that be began to play fast and loose with continuity. Rather than embrace the franchise’s rich history, they often wrote around it (or worse, forgot about it entirely).

Right off the bat, the revival disavowed canon and resurrected Dan Conner. Quite frankly, it was the only way forward. But then they began to rewrite the legacy as they saw fit, suggesting not only that Season 9 was a lie, but that any late-in-run development they had no desire to see through was a figment of Roseanne Conner’s imagination — a part of her unsold manuscript collecting dust in Dan’s garage.

First, they did away with all of Jackie’s character development and reimagined Laurie Metcalf’s alter-ego as a spinster. Her ex-husband Fred? Didn’t exist! And Andy? Well, if Fred didn’t exist, neither did their son! Occasionally, Metcalf found ways to make it work — her comedic and dramatic prowess was on full display in the Season 2 classic “Slappy Holidays,” and any scene opposite Estelle Parsons (aka Bev) was pure gold — but more often than not, one of our greatest living actors was left twisting in the wind. 

Now, just imagine for a second if Andy had existed and was estranged from Jackie. Not only would their eventual reunion have afforded Metcalf a strong showcase, but it would have offered audiences an explanation for why Jackie grew increasingly isolated in her older age, and why it took her so long to feel like she was deserving of love. What if that had been a part of her journey in the lead-up to meeting (and marrying) Neville?

Eventually, Dan and Roseanne’s fourth child, Jerry, was also scrubbed from the record books. At first, he was holed up on some fishing boat in Alaska. Three years later? Poof! Gone! Had he never been mentioned, I doubt I would have cared. The revival had a hard enough time figuring out what to do with their other son, DJ, before they ultimately let Michael Fishman go. After the revival planted the seeds for DJ and his father to go into business together repairing motorcycles — a storyline that would’ve harkened back to Dan’s days owning and operating a bike shop — the first season of The Conners hammered home that Darlene and Becky’s younger brother was in therapy, still battling demons from his time in the Army. But just like his wife and daughter, those ideas evaporated into thin air.

In truth, though, I’m more disappointed with how they handled the absence of David. There was a way for Johnny Galecki to remain off screen and not make Darlene’s ex-husband a deadbeat dad — a development that never quite meshed with the version of David we knew and loved from the original run of Roseanne. All it would have taken was the occasional line of dialogue to indicate that David, who still lived in Lanford, took an active role in Mark and Harris’ lives; the kids were old enough where it would have been believable if he and Darlene were never in the same room together once their divorce was finalized in Season 2.

Despite my qualms, I did, in fact, enjoy a lot of what The Conners accomplished. The writers delivered a masterclass in how to handle the unforeseen death of a central character, then did a superb job navigating not only Dan’s heartbreak, but his conflicted feelings about moving on with Louise. They couldn’t have found a better on-screen partner for John Goodman than Katey Sagal, though the award for best replacement spouse — and the very best revival addition — goes to Jay R. Ferguson’s Ben Olinsky. As a longtime Darlene and David ‘shipper, I never expected to like Darlene with Ben as much as I have, but Ferguson immediately felt like he belonged, and played well off of just about everyone. 

Last but not least, I’d be remiss if I didn’t applaud Becky’s arc. The character lost her way in the later seasons of Roseanne; for whatever reason, they just never wrote as well for Sarah Chalke as they did for Lecy Goranson. Thankfully, Goranson stayed put after she returned for the revival, and we got to watch Becky confront her vices, become a mom and finish grad school. As the producers put it, Becky became the person she was meant to be all along. The fact that she found a sweet, sensitive boyfriend in Tyler was an added bonus.

All told, I’m glad we got another seven years with the Conner clan… even if I would have handled a few things differently

 

The Conners Was a Good Revival — But If They’d Honored Roseanne History, It Could’ve Been Great

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'Roseanne' and 'The Conners' too often forgot (or simply ignored) their own history, which prevented a...