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The Conners Season 5 Nails One Story Most Sitcoms Avoid

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While The Conners season 5 doesn't recapture all of Roseanne's strengths, it does address one story that almost all family sitcoms steer clear of.


Warning: Spoilers for The Conners season 5, episode 7.


While it was tough to watch two of the show’s heroines lose their jobs at the same time, this plot line allowed The Conners season 5 to prove that the Roseanne spinoff can address economic realities that most family sitcoms ignore. The Conners are not like most families seen in television sitcoms. They don’t live in the sort of palatial home seen in Fuller House, and they don’t have access to the seemingly endless income available to the upper-middle-class characters of Modern Family.


Even the Conners’ Halloween decorations seem out of their budget since, unlike most sitcom families, they live paycheck to paycheck. However, this gives The Conners as a series a chance to explore storylines that most other family sitcoms avoid entirely. This was proven in The Conners season 5, episode 7, “Take This Job and Shove It Twice,” when both Darlene and Louise lost their jobs in the same episode. The issue was not presented as a relief or an opportunity to turn over a new leaf but, realistically, as a real problem for both characters. Despite this, The Conners still wrung relatable humor out of the plot.


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However, by season 5, The Conners has gotten a lot better at discussing Roseanne and its characters—with a few notable exceptions. For example, in The Conners’ “Parent Traps and Heart Attacks” (season 5, episode 4), Jackie’s desire to be a good parent to Neville’s orphaned nephew Caleb is admirable and sweet and results in a solid storyline that sees her inspire the kid to join the Navy by the end of the episode. However, this episode’s plot also reminded Roseanne viewers that Jackie already had a son whose existence was retconned when the show was rebooted. While The Conners season 5 addressed some fan complaints, with each new episode, it looks less and less likely that the show will ever acknowledge Andy’s existence, and this results in a weird disconnect between Roseanne and The Conners.


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