Plus, the revival’s solo season had already introduced Roseanne’s prescription medicine tendencies when it came to pain medication, as caused by an injured knee.
It’s hard to picture how many ways The Conners could have written off Roseanne Conner without directly killing her off.
So, universally enjoyable or not, at least the overdose was enough of a logical conclusion, if an extreme one.
She and Dan definitely weren’t going to split up and divorce after all these years and all the problems they faced.