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'Roseanne' review: Roseanne Barr and cast reunite for an update on the iconic sitcom

"Roseanne" is back for a nine-episode 10th season after a break of nearly 21 years. Its absence is almost old enough to drink.

Although we are in a season of revivals, reboots and returns, "Roseanne," for all its enormous success back in the 20th century, is not the first show one would imagine being called up again to serve - especially given skipper-star Roseanne Barr's long years in the fringes of pop culture and a strange, surreal last season that left her TV husband, John Goodman's Dan Conner, dead.

That and other anomalies are humorously treated in the new season, which began Tuesday, with sidelong nods that let you know that

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