'Roseanne' Returns For A New Conversation

It makes some sense that the presidency of Donald Trump would bring about the return of Roseanne. One of the few network shows to ever deal thoughtfully with a midwestern working-class family that worried about the electric bill and took second jobs when they had to, Roseanne was set in the kind of place, and even in the kind of home, that reporters have visited over and over again in the last year and a half, convinced that the needs and the fears found there might hold the key to understanding ... well, something.

Indeed, the first episode in the show's return, airing Tuesday night, addresses itself directly to the fallout from the election. Roseanne Conner (Roseanne Barr) voted for Trump;