We’ll have to wait and see if the ratings and viewership change drastically now that the mystery of how her death would be handled has been solved.
It’s worth noting that the Conners numbers will likely increase once delayed viewership can be calculated in the coming days.
The premiere certainly did deliver a lot of information, and it was a surprisingly heavy episode, especially given a fair amount of the promotion for the show focused more on the upcoming comedy than the drama stemming from Roseanne Conner’s fate.