- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 18, 1988
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This is the likely big hit of the '88-'89 strike-delayed season, the show everyone will copy next year. [17 Oct 1988]
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No doubt ABC has a hit here. The show's funny, and this is something you rarely get to say about a sitcom. [16 Oct 1988]
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"Roseanne" is without a doubt one of the brightest new entries of the season, one of the most unusual of any season, and one of the most welcome. [18 Oct 1988]
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jul 11, 2013Has the potential to be the best new sitcom in at least a couple of seasons. [15 Oct 1988]
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'Roseanne' is off to a terrifically hilarious start.
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The fact that Barr's show seems cut so authentically out of middle-class experience gives it a solid familiarity from first encounter. ... "Roseanne" is really different and really funny. [18 Oct 1988]
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An endearingly weird and bent new ABC comedy.
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The show's grungy ambience and gleeful puncturing of TV ideals of happy domesticity have made it the most daring new sitcom of the fall.
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It's not as dark as Fox's "Married ... with Children." And not as funny. Barr is fine as a monotoned stand-up, but her routine, in both senses of the word, wears thin in the first half-hour. [26 Sep 1988]
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Despite its aim of tweaking television's usual saccharine family vehicles--replacing, in effect, the smarmy with the snippy--it really is just another standard sitcom itself, wrapped in fitfully amusing abrasiveness. [18 Oct 1988]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 18
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Negative: 3 out of 18
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Jun 20, 2019A Classic Sitcom
Roseanne is funny, clever, and has very likable characters.