A month later, Roseanne aired an episode that had Roseanne and Jackie go to a gay club, where Nancy’s new girlfriend makes a move on Roseanne.
An unlikely hit when it debuted in 1988, Roseanne was, as Roseanne Barr herself calls it, “television’s first feminist and working-class-family sitcom.”
But as it brilliantly did over and over again, Roseanne the show always kept Roseanne the character’s aspirations checked by harsh realities.
“Crime and Punishment/War and Peace” Season 5, Episodes 13& 14One of the series’ most powerful storylines ever, Roseanne depicted domestic violence in two wrenching episodes.