It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Rossane good. The March 27 debut (premiere of two more episodes) of the rebooted sitcom got huge ratingsWith 25 million people watched last week. After months of Trump being criticized by Hollywood’s liberal elite and late-night TV shows, the rest of the country finally had a show they could watch without being spat on by the insufferable progressives who dominate entertainment.
There is another view that Rossane he did well because television is I’m going through a rebootwith Will & Grace and The X-Files, not Trump supporters gathering for the show. Good point, except for the place where Rossane dominated in areas where President Donald Trump dominates (via Deadline):
Both Trump and Roseanne were able to reach an often overlooked and underserved working-class audience, especially one that is predominantly conservative. Not surprisingly, the top TV markets where Roseanne achieved the highest ratings were in states where Trump won the election. No. 1 was Tulsa, Oklahoma, which Trump won with 65.3 percent of the vote. Cincinnati, Ohio, and Kansas City, Missouri, followed. The only major blue-state city in the top 10 was Chicago at No. 5 — the area where the series is set. ABC focused some of its marketing efforts on the region, previewing the revival at the 54th Chicago International Film Festival.
The nation’s largest market, New York, didn’t crack the top 20; Los Angeles, in second place, didn’t crack the top 30. Yet Roseanne was the highest-rated comedy in 3 1/2 years, since the fall 2014 premiere of the most popular sitcom of the past five years, The Big Bang Theory.
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Somehow, Roseanne transcended its age by recruiting a youthful audience to a show whose two leads, Roseanne Barr and John Goodman, are both 65, well beyond the 18-49 demographic. It tapped into the zeitgeist of middle America by addressing its economic woes—and political views—straight up. It was captivating to see how Roseanne would address Trump, which the show did in its first episode. In an encouraging sign, the novelty didn’t wear off, and the second episode scored even higher than the opening.
But should we be shocked? Rossane was a window into the American working class. Since its end in 1997, the program that succeeded in bringing Central America into our homes has been Middlestarring Patricia Heaton as Frankie Heck, which followed the trials and tribulations of raising a family in fictional Orson, Indiana. The series began its ninth season and the last seasonalthough it first aired in the fall of 2009. The last real show starring Tim Allen, set in Colorado, was a highly rated series that was canceled for what some said were political reasons; Allen’s character, Mike Baxter, is a conservative Republican who is the head of marketing for a hunting and camping store similar to Cabela’s. RossaneThere was a discussion on Fox about it is possible that we will restore this program because — shock —many American families are like the Baxters and the Hecks and the Connors. It shows that success can be found outside the coastal and urban elite of New York and Los Angeles. It seems that network executives like Hillary Clinton are discovering, or rediscovering, that people actually live outside the cities. That there is another America beyond the beltways — and they can’t afford the daily trips to SoulCycle.
Most Americans don’t have college degrees, work demanding, raise their families the best they can, and don’t have the comforts of home that are flooding Blue America. Only in that tight-knit bubble would a woman from a $200,000 household complain about a “feebleness” gripping her social circle because Donald Trump won the 2016 election. Liberals are always talking about cutting back on their privileges, silencing someone who’s out to blow their cheapskate narrative of what America is really like. Well, that’s really about how they feel about rural America, where, yes—an extra $60 in your paycheck Is massive deal. And just because someone doesn’t have a college degree, works in a factory (or on a farm or in manual labor) and owns a gun doesn’t make them less of an American. I think that’s what’s killing the coastal elites in the post-Trump era. They’ve discovered that there are millions of Americans who don’t want to be like them, who are elated because they work demanding and support their loved ones as best they can. If that means working as a mechanic, so be it. For some reason, that’s seen as anathema. So it must be refreshing for those millions of Americans to see at least some resemblance to their daily lives on TV.
