How The Conners Wrote Off Roseanne Barr, and Why You Should Keep Watching

Forget the noise around Roseanne’s former star; the spinoff is fall’s best new broadcast comedy

Usually, the biggest question going into a new TV season is, “Which of these new shows are worth watching?” (You can find that answer here.) But this fall, the biggest TV-related question seemed to be, “How is ABC’s new Roseanne spinoff, The Conners, going to address the absence of Roseanne Barr?”

Now, after four months of silence—and an enigmatic marketing campaign that leaned into the widespread curiosity about the character’s fate—The Conners’ Tuesday night premiere revealed that, as had been suspected all along, Barr’s Roseanne Conner has died.

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