Okay, I'm watching it, and I haven't seen anything like extremely reactionary yet but holy shit it's bad. The acting is uh extremely wooden and awkward. Roseanne is terrible, Jackie is terrible, even John Goodman, who is obviously quite a good actor, is terrible. It feels like a high school play.
There are a couple of okay jokes but nobody is capable of delivering them. This shit is so embarrassing.
Okay there's the joke. Yeah, idk.
Obviously the whole deal is racial / cultural / economic resentment. I don't remember much about the original run but the whole thesis of this reboot seems to be "the world is changing but nothing has gotten any better for me." They're poor, old, feeling ignored, and disrespected. Kids today are poor and coddled.
A lot of it is about the grandkids being shitty entitled brats. Which, like, of course it is.
"You're acting like you own the place, and we don't even own the place!"
I gotta say, it's not, like, explicitly right wing. But it definitely is about being working poor and feeling left behind by the world. Which is obviously a big part of the MAGA mindset, but it's also not the whole thing. There's also, like, actual white nationalism.
Also this episode ends with like an emotional dramatic scene and holy shit it's bad. Like embarrassingly terrible. I can't imagine it was this amateurish back in the 90s.
Anyway that was a waste of 22 minutes but it's not as reactionary as, say, Last Man Standing. At least not the episode I watched. It's more about being old and poor than about resenting minorities and LGBT people, which is what I was expecting.
Still, 0 out of 5 stars
