{"id":232253,"date":"2019-09-24T22:01:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T02:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=232253"},"modified":"2019-09-24T22:01:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T02:01:24","slug":"sara-gilbert-the-conners-works-because-its-relatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/24\/sara-gilbert-the-conners-works-because-its-relatable\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Gilbert: &#8216;The Conners&#8217; works because it&#8217;s relatable"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2yOhNFgzoH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2yOhNFgzoH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; 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#TheConners premieres TONIGHT at 8|7c on ABC!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theconnersabc\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> The Conners<\/a> (@theconnersabc) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2019-09-24T07:00:42+00:00\">Sep 24, 2019 at 12:00am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014\u00a0TV revivals are usually met with fanfare, but some \u2014\u00a0like &#8220;Murphy Brown&#8221;\u00a0\u2014\u00a0failed to click with the audience. An exception is the sitcom &#8220;The Conners,&#8221;\u00a0a spinoff of &#8220;Roseanne.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ratings for the first season of the series exceeded ABC&#8217;s expectations. The second season launches Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sara Gilbert, who plays sarcastic single mom Darlene Conner, thinks &#8220;The Conners&#8221;\u00a0works because it&#8217;s relatable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just really lucky that it&#8217;s a timely revival, that we&#8217;re talking about the middle class and the struggle of the middle class and that&#8217;s as relevant as ever,&#8221;\u00a0Gilbert said. &#8220;We&#8217;re lucky that these characters resonate with people and people relate to them and I guess there&#8217;s a timelessness about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Conners&#8221;\u00a0follows the family of &#8220;Roseanne&#8217; as it struggles to make ends meet, squabbles and grieves the loss of its matriarch, who died from an opioid overdose.<\/p>\n<p>The Roseanne&#8221;\u00a0reboot was cancelled by ABC in 2018 after star Roseanne Barr made a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a former adviser to President Barack Obama. The network fired Barr. The comedian said she is not a bigot and apologized.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if she feels there&#8217;s less pressure now that the show has had a whole season without Barr, Gilbert focused on the cast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We love making the show and we always have loved making it,&#8221;\u00a0Gilbert said.<\/p>\n<p>Though she&#8217;s an executive producer on the series, Gilbert brushes off the notion that she has any sort of boss status over castmates she began working with in the late 80s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not really the boss,&#8221;\u00a0she said. &#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m trying to make them happy and make sure the show stays great for all the actors that are willing to do it and it&#8217;s up to them every year if they want to come back and do it and I just feel like it&#8217;s my job to make it a happy place to work with a great outcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert points out that it&#8217;s hard to have a successful sitcom because many lack substance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re usually pretty bad,&#8221;\u00a0she said. &#8220;Somebody that I know is studying writing and &#8230; my advice to him was just to make it meaningful. 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