All new seasons or new shows in general seem to struggle with reintroducing old and new characters in modern up to date times, once you get past that it usually picks up quite well.
I watched it and it started off with heavy modern pop culture undertones which comforts the audience, and then the PC and political overtones unsettles them, but then the emotional family embrace and usual conflicting character arguments connect them both and bring it back home.
My parents seem to like it, i chuckles at it a bit just like the old times but again I am usually too busy to watch tv at all anyway. It does remind me of old Roseanne shows, get past the funk and in a season or two (if its still on) the new seasons should be as the old ones were, just modern times.
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