Roseanne - The Complete Second Season
by John Pasquin
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Actor: John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Fishman, Roseanne, Sara GilbertDirector: John Pasquin
Brand: FOX Home Entertainment
Writer: Allan Katz
Writer: Bill Gerber
Writer: Danny Jacobson
Writer: Geraldine Barr
Writer: Joss Whedon
Writer: Kim C. Friese
Writer: Martin Pasko
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 530 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of Roseanne - The Complete Second Season
DVD Review: First season of the "golden age" of Roseanne
Summary: 5 Stars
To me, this second season of Roseanne marks the first of the very best seasons of the series, which includes seasons two through four, ending with Becky's marriage to Mark at the beginning of season five and the exit of her character from the show.
The season opener, "Inherit the Wind", is one of the series' best episodes as Becky attempts to recover from an embarrassing accident in front of the student council. Her mother and aunt try to convince her that what happened is not important by bringing up embarrassing moments in their own teen years, which only seems to confirm to Becky that years from now people will still remember what happened to her. "One for the Road" also focuses on Becky, who decides to make mixed drinks with her friend when her parents are away only to come away from the ordeal with a horrendous hangover and a lack of trust from her parents when she is found out.
A big theme in this year's show is Roseanne trying to find stable employment after she walked off of her factory job at the conclusion of the first season. At first she is only able to get a job selling magazines by phone, with the recipients of her calls showing all of the enthusiasm for her products that you would expect. Revolving around this theme is the episode "Guilt by Disassociation", in which Roseanne appears to have landed a good job with a solid company, but when the woman who hired her learns she has no experience working with a personal computer, she retracts her offer. To make Roseanne feel worse, her friends are waiting at home to give her a surprise party over landing the job, with each of her former colleagues having a tale of how quitting the factory job was the best thing that ever happened to them. "Lobocop" and "Hair" are other good episodes revolving around this season-long theme of Roseanne's attempt to find stable employment. In "Lobocop" Roseanne takes a night job at the local bar, and she and Dan's love life suffers because of their opposite work schedules. In "Hair" she has a job at a hair salon doing much the same thing she does at home, but receives far better treatment at work for these efforts than she does from her family.
Finally, "Boo!" is the first of what became a tradition on Roseanne, which was the Halloween special that occurred every year from this point through the duration of the show. I really thought this first Halloween show was the funniest one, though.
None of the episodes in this season are klunkers, and the acting and writing are top-notch. I especially like how this season handled the real-life issue of what happens to a person like Roseanne who has only a high school education when she lose a factory job that, although adequately-paying, does not provide any experience in doing anything that another employer would find valuable. Other sit-coms of the period had their heroines immaculately dressed and living in well-kept homes with good educations, wonderful careers, and children that seemed to take care of themselves. "Roseanne" actually dealt with the reality of the long hours, low pay, and lack of career satisfaction blue collar workers actually have to deal with, along with the accompanying problems of couples not having any time for each other or themselves and their children having to deal with the consequences of not being entirely adequately supervised.
Finally, for you Joss Whedon fans out there, you may notice that this second season of Roseanne has seven episodes penned by the creator of the Buffyverse. This is also the first season that has episodes penned by Tom Arnold, Roseanne's second husband. For all the things you can say about the man's lack of acting abilities, he seemed to have a very positive impact on the creative aspect of the show, and his collaboration with Roseanne seemed to ground her and kept the show from straying off course as it seemed to do after their separation and divorce in 1994.
I really liked the first season of "Roseanne", but I think that you'll find that this second season is where the show really began to find itself, and I highly recommend it.
Description of Roseanne - The Complete Second Season
Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 06/06/2006 Run time: 530 minutesBestsellers in DVD
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