Eric Deggans:
Well, I'm not sure that the show was actually doing that.
I wrote a column for NPR.org that was published last week where I called that show and that idea the biggest head-fake in television. I think they had a few jokes in the very first episode of the revival that spoke to Roseanne Conner's — the character being a Trump supporter, but they never really addressed it after that.
I do think that because Roseanne Barr, the real-life person, is a Trump supporter, they thought it might make sense to have at least one episode where Roseanne Conner talked about being a Trump supporter, and that they might get support from Trump viewers if they played that balance delicately.
But what we have seen is that Roseanne Barr, the person, can be volatile. I think, in the end , ABC was caught in a situation where they gave a star a platform who had already said some incendiary things, and she said more incendiary things, and they had to act.
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