714 Delaware St. is a podcast about the television sitcom Roseanne, its reboot and its second reboot, The Conners. Hosts Maura and Katherine are longtime fans of the original series who met in graduate school, where they both studied literature, film and television studies. Roseanne was a groundbreaking series, depicting a working-class family led by strong female characters who broke the mold for women in family sitcoms. It was also a formative cultural text for the two of us, who grew up glued to every episode and feeling like, in some sense, it got us.
This podcast is not in any way intended to excuse or defend the recent racist and offensive statements of Roseanne Barr herself, whose involvement with the show was rightly terminated following a racist tweet about President Obama’s former advisor Valerie Jarrett. Instead, we hope to revisit significant episodes of the original series with a critical eye, celebrating our personal connections to the show and its trailblazing, charming, and moving qualities while also acknowledging its shortcomings and biases. We discuss these episodes side-by-side with new episodes of The Conners, exploring what the series looks like without Roseanne herself and whether the universe of Lanford, though markedly changed since 1988, can still provide the setting for stories and characters that resonate and offer an honest depiction of life for a working class that remains underrepresented on television.
So grab your favorite afghan, pull up a stool at the Lobo or slide into your favorite booth at Rodbell’s, and join us!
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714 Delaware St. is a podcast about the television sitcom Roseanne, its reboot and its second reboot, The Conners. Hosts Maura and Katherine are longtime fans of the original series who met in graduate school, where they both studied literature, film and television studies. Roseanne was a groundbreaking series, depicting a working-class family led by strong female characters who broke the mold for women in family sitcoms. It was also a formative cultural text for the two of us, who grew up glued to every episode and feeling like, in some sense, it got us.
This podcast is not in any way intended to excuse or defend the recent racist and offensive statements of Roseanne Barr herself, whose involvement with the show was rightly terminated following a racist tweet about President Obama’s former advisor Valerie Jarrett. Instead, we hope to revisit significant episodes of the original series with a critical eye, celebrating our personal connections to the show and its trailblazing, charming, and moving qualities while also acknowledging its shortcomings and biases. We discuss these episodes side-by-side with new episodes of The Conners, exploring what the series looks like without Roseanne herself and whether the universe of Lanford, though markedly changed since 1988, can still provide the setting for stories and characters that resonate and offer an honest depiction of life for a working class that remains underrepresented on television.
So grab your favorite afghan, pull up a stool at the Lobo or slide into your favorite booth at Rodbell’s, and join us!
The Conners is clattering along like a runaway train, cramming as much in as possible ahead of the sixth and final episode. Dive in with us, won’t you? In this installment, we discuss “Danny Boy, the Interview, the New Hire, and the Hanging Chad” and “Exercise Bands, Money Plans, and Faraway Lands.”
There’s good and bad news for our favorite family, as Becky gets a new job and a new truck, Harris snags a cute new boyfriend, and Jackie barrels along, confidently delusional, toward her dream of rejoining the PD. Meanwhile, Mark the cybercriminal improbably goes from sullen fixation on the University of Chicago to a college-free life plan, riding off in a cab like the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to a new job in New York that somehow he never had to even apply for. We’re…happy for him?
Dan and Darlene aren’t faring as well, with Dan struggling with the stress of his upcoming deposition, and Darlene dealing with an absent Ben and an all-too-present (and cute and David-like) Chad. We don’t like where this is going, and can’t help but be somewhat hurt by what the show is doing to Ben. He loves Darlene and has been a good stepdad! Why is hardware magazine suddenly ruining lives?? And HOW will it all end? We’re nervous.
Join us for this discussion plus tangents on technophobia, Conclave, series finales, John Lithgow, and more. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts!
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714 Delaware St. is a podcast about the television sitcom Roseanne, its reboot and its second reboot, The Conners. Hosts Maura and Katherine are longtime fans of the original series who met in graduate school, where they both studied literature, film and television studies. Roseanne was a groundbreaking series, depicting a working-class family led by strong female characters who broke the mold for women in family sitcoms. It was also a formative cultural text for the two of us, who grew up glued to every episode and feeling like, in some sense, it got us.
This podcast is not in any way intended to excuse or defend the recent racist and offensive statements of Roseanne Barr herself, whose involvement with the show was rightly terminated following a racist tweet about President Obama’s former advisor Valerie Jarrett. Instead, we hope to revisit significant episodes of the original series with a critical eye, celebrating our personal connections to the show and its trailblazing, charming, and moving qualities while also acknowledging its shortcomings and biases. We discuss these episodes side-by-side with new episodes of The Conners, exploring what the series looks like without Roseanne herself and whether the universe of Lanford, though markedly changed since 1988, can still provide the setting for stories and characters that resonate and offer an honest depiction of life for a working class that remains underrepresented on television.
So grab your favorite afghan, pull up a stool at the Lobo or slide into your favorite booth at Rodbell’s, and join us!
