Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
The series Roseanne will return to ABC on March 27, with the same actors reprising their roles in the Conner family. The show was considered groundbreaking in its depiction of a working class family in 1988, but it wasn’t the first. Let’s jump back a couple decades to 1971 and All in the Family. Before then, almost all sitcoms featured successful middle-class families with a single wage earner in a beautiful home. Archie Bunker and his family were different, and more relatable to Americans who lived the same way. Producer Norman Lear adapted the British show Till Death Do Us Part to highlight the generation gap between Archie and his wife Edith and their more progressive daughter and son-in-law.
The dilapidated aesthetic mirrored Archie’s character traits; he was…
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