Roseanne - The Complete First Season
by Ellen Falcon, John Pasquin, John Sgueglia
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Actor: John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Fishman, Roseanne, Sara GilbertDirector: Ellen Falcon, John Pasquin, John Sgueglia
Brand: Fox
Writer: Bill Pentland
Writer: Danny Jacobson
Writer: David Jacobson
Writer: David McFadzean
Writer: Grace McKeaney
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 505 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-08-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of Roseanne - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: THE CONNERS COME HOME/ ANCHOR BAY CUTS (REVISED 8/27/05)
Summary: 5 Stars
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WARNING: SINCE I WROTE THIS IN MAY IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THIS BOX SET CONTAINS EDITED EPISODES OF THE SHOW!!! I WAS SO HAPPY THINKING THAT THIS GREAT SHOW WAS AT LAST GOING TO BE REVIVED BY DVD, BUT NOW I SEE THAT THIS BOX SET IS ABOUT AS GOOD AS TAPING THE RERUNS OFF OF NICK AT NITE. DO NOT BUY THIS SET. [...]
The following review was written in May, before I knew that these discs contained cut episodes. The review praises the show, not the crappy DVDs Anchor bay has put out.
So at long last one of the greatest (and certainly the most down to earth) sitcoms of all time finds a new home on the keepsake format known as DVD. A format which is popular with rerun addicts because the episodes are as fresh as the day they aired, free of syndication editing for time, and, better still, they are now free of commercials, particularly those horrible promos they now run during the course of the shows themselves. ROSEANNE comes from a better time when networks did not have the gaul to soil a show with pop-ups that sometimes take up half the screen and even have (shudder) sound effects. But then, ROSEANNE's time was a good old time anyway, the late eighties running through to the late nineties.
After making a name for herself as a standup comedian, ROSEANNE finally got her own television show and got to do it her way. The series was centered on a working class mother and her family and gave most viewers a warm feeling of being right at home themselves with the shows original mix of real-life drama and sarcastic quips.
The true crowning achievement of the show was it's ability to portray female characters as leads in a comedy and yet make them diversely different. Roseanne herself is a loud, bossy, control-freak with a heart of gold. Her sister Jackie (played with brilliance by Laurie Metcalf) is a neurotic, wishy-washy woman who can't keep a relationship or a job for long. Roseanne's daughters, Becky and Darlene, are total opposites and watching them go through puberty, marriage and life in general throughout the course of the show helped shaped them into important, well-developed characters. The show managed to have four female leads without being a hen-fest. Part of that can be attributed to the testosterone put on screen by the character Dan, Roseanne's husband and real man's man(played with equal brilliance by John Goodman). But more so, the show's success can be attributed to the fact that all the female leads are not banal, cookie cutter clichés. Roseanne, in particular, broke the mold of pleasant female leads. She was likable, but not always pleasant. Her bitterness is what made her so funny, but her inner sweetness is what made her such a lovable Mom figure.
Smart writing, rich character development, realistic plots, sometimes deep drama, and all around laughs carried the series for years until the last season or so fell apart in a zany mess. Once the family won the lotto it was all over. The show totally lost it's way and disintegrated in a horrible bastardization which mocked what had made it so great for all those years. But many years of greatness makes up for a sour ending, and the release of season one is more than welcome by legions of fans.
Like most shows, the First Season of ROSEANNE is not the best. The characters had not grown into themselves yet (DJ is even replaced). Roseanne and Jackie work in a factory and the episodes, while good, are more about getting the feel of the environment as a whole rather than getting deep into each individual part of the whole. But the first season is nonetheless hilarious and is a milestone in situation comedy and in the construction of female roles which differ from the dull mainstream of "the sex interest", "the sweet little girl" or "the wise old granny".
After a few seasons the show really came into it's own. Roseanne starts to job-hop, Dan and Darlene's bond starts to struggle because she is becoming a woman, the girls enter their teens and boys come into the picture (including the characters of Mark and his brother David, which become important male characters on the show that will stay until the series ends), Jackie becomes more neurotic and fickle which is sometimes hysterically funny and is at other times profoundly moving in it's realism, and Roseanne's shrew of a mother enters the picture, adding delightful insanity.
It's a shame that this show died out the way it did. We could have grown old together with The Conner Family, or at least could have had a more realistic goodbye. A reunion show would be nice if they just ignored the plot which unfolded post-lotto. Unfortunately though, the actor Glen Quinn who played Mark died a few years back, which would make a reunion show even more complicated. John Goodman continues to make great film appearances (particularly in THE BIG LEBOWSKI, his best work), but the rest of the cast sort of vanished into obscure films and television appearances, including Roseanne herself. Her wild personal life aside, the woman is funny, and it is baffling that she could make such big mistakes after this show ended. First she did her talk show, which, to no one's surprise, bombed. Then, for about two episodes, she had that obnoxious reality show which revolved around her real family which were nowhere near as likable as the fictional Conners.
ROSEANNE, like the roaring 90's themselves, are behind us now. But the memory of them both linger, and watching Roseanne is kind of like doing the time warp. You not only enjoy the show all over again, but you feel transported back in time, just like you would watching In LIVING COLOR or MARRIED WITH CHILDREN. Those shows have been on DVD for a while now, and rightly so. But ROSEANNE has been put off for far too long. I'm glad to see this original, groundbreaking series hit store shelves, out of the vaults and back into our hearts.
WARNING: SINCE I WROTE THIS IN MAY IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THIS BOX SET CONTAINS EDITED EPISODES OF THE SHOW!!! I WAS SO HAPPY THINKING THAT THIS GREAT SHOW WAS AT LAST GOING TO BE REVIVED BY DVD, BUT NOW I SEE THAT THIS BOX SET IS ABOUT AS GOOD AS TAPING THE RERUNS OFF OF NICK AT NITE. DO NOT BUY THIS SET. [...]
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