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Do I like Vanessa Redgrave’s political peccadilloes? Not particularly, but I still maintain that she’s one of the most magnificent actresses to grace any stage. It is difficult to admit, but nearly everything about the production is competent.” While she praised the show itself, she added that, “I could not set aside what I know of Roseanne Barr and how toxic and dangerous her current public persona is,” thus being unable to separate the character of Roseanne Conner from that of the actor, Roseanne Barr. Bad Feminist author Roxane Gay, in an op-ed piece in The New York Times, stated that, “In many ways, the first two episodes of the ‘Roseanne’ reboot are excellent. I’ve been reading many comments, tweets and long diatribes on how Roseanne has become a tool of the Trump White House, she’s a traitor to all that she stood for when the show first aired and on and on, ad nauseam. Then came “Roseanne” and all the drama with it.
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I’ll miss “The Middle,” “Mom” and “Big Bang Theory” can do no wrong and the reboot of “Will & Grace” makes me a ridiculously happy gay girl. So, I decided to go sit-com hopping to lighten the mood. “This is Us” had taken on that role and has never failed to leave me in a puddle of sobbing. Back in the day (I really hate that term, but it is what it is), my weekly cathartic weeping came from “Little House on the Prairie” and “The Waltons.” Yes, you heard me, “The Waltons!” That episode where Grandma Walton came back to Walton’s Mountain after her stroke (Ellen Corby, who had a stroke in real life!) the week that Will Geer (Grampa Walton) died – I tell you, Little Paul and I wept alligator tears, while Paula, my girlfriend, looked at us like we had three heads. I don’t know about you, but I needed an emotional break from “This is Us,” which has ripped my guts out this season.