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Sara Gilbert is reflecting on The Conners‘ 7-season run. The 50-year-old actress, who stars as Darlene Conner in the ABC sitcom spinoff, opened up about the show’s impact in a recent interview. “I think we just have such a good time and we laugh a lot.
And the group, not just the cast, but the crew as well, the writers. It feels like family, and because we did it for so many years, it’s sort of deep in our soul. And so that is hard to imagine being without,” she told People.
She also gave insight as to why she thinks audiences connect with the series. Keep reading to find out more..
.“It’s showing an American family struggling to get by and there’s not enough representations of that. And when there are, the sets look too fancy or the people look too fancy,” she said.
“I think also the ability of our writers to tackle subjects that people are dealing with that do it with so much humor and love. And so I think people feel like they get to laugh and they also get to feel at home with these characters, hopefully,” she added. The last episode of The Conners will air on Wednesday, April 23 on ABC.
If you didn’t know, The Conners is a spinoff of the short-lived revival of Roseanne, which got canceled in 2018 after Roseanne Barr posted a racist tweet about President Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett.In 2023, Roseanne shared her thoughts about The Conners killing off her character..
