Day 21 - One of your favorite shows.
well, this one wasn’t hard at all. while i love family guy, the hills, and it’s always sunny in philadelphia, nothing in my book can possibly beat Roseanne.
it is my all-time favorite show :)[all my friends have made fun of me for this for years, but i am not ashamed! besides once they start watching it with me, i get them hooked, anyways. ;)]
anyways, i love that show. i’ve gone through all 9 seasons about once a year for the past 3 years.
the thing is with Roseanne is it’s more than a show to me. that may sound silly and a little stupid, but while the other shows i listed above are for entertainment purposes only, Roseanne is a little more realistic and a lot more genuine.
when most people think of Roseanne, they think of white trash, bossy, loud, annoying. and while Roseanne is all those things, the show surprisingly holds a lot of depth, particularly in the later episodes.
Roseanne, to me, is about life, about family, about getting through. about the little things and how those are the things that matter most.
during the course of the season, you see Roseanne and her sister and best friend, Jackie, address issues in their childhood. Dan (Roseanne’s huband) is always at odds with his dad and his mom ends up in a mental institution. their oldest daughter, Becky, elopes at the age of 17. darlene, their other daughter, gets caught in a deep depression, and their youngest, DJ, often ends up being left out. Dan loses his business and Roseanne has to work two jobs to support the family. they lose money to bad investments, they forget anniversaries, they fight.
it’s the perfect dysfunctional family, if you’ve ever seen one, and i love that. i love that they’re real and that, at the end of the day, everything may not be okay. but, at the end of the day, Roseanne and Dan love their kids and their kids love them. and even more than that, Roseanne and Dan love each other. when nothing is going right, they hold each other up and they get through. they face another day, another dilemma, but they do it together.
Roseanne touches a part of me that i love. it makes me smile and it makes me cherish moments and realize that having money and nice things or even having everything fixed in 30 minutes does not help you grow. but love does.
at the end of november, i had copied and pasted the monologue in the very last episode of the show. it may not be the same for anyone who hasn’t seen the show, but it touches my heart in so many places.
check it out, if you feel so inclined :)
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