...nice to see Xmastime Hall of Famer Laurie Metcalf getting some love this week; I started out wanting to hate it because I assumed they'd skip over her Roseanne work (work that landed her in my all-time top 10 sitcom characters!) as quickly as they could but no no I was, as Fonzie himself wasn't a big enough man to say, wrong:
Goodman said, “As many difficulties as we had on the show, Laurie was my lodestar. She was solid gravity. She just rode the waves during a lot of that shit.” As the seasons went on, the writers played to Metcalf’s strengths, including physical comedy. But the show made a point of tackling real problems—mortgage payments, birth control, and a subplot in which Jackie has an abusive boyfriend. Sara Gilbert, who played Metcalf’s niece, said, “She can be completely absurd, but you don’t stop believing her.”
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