Why 'The Conners' series finale may leave you with more questions than answers
Why 'The Conners' series finale may leave you with more questions than answers
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After seven seasons, "The Conners" is getting ready to leave the air.
As fans anxiously await the last few episodes of the series, Laurie Metcalf, who plays Jackie Harris on the popular "Roseanne" spinoff, is urging viewers not to expect a storybook ending.
In an interview with People published Wednesday, Metcalf revealed the final season is "not going to have a big bow tied up."
"There's a lot to wrap up and I think the writers are really working hard to get everybody's storylines sort of ... not completed," Metcalf told People.
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"It will remain true to their storyline, what happens to them in the final episode," she told the outlet. "But, it's a very short amount of time to wrap up this many seasons of a family that's covered decades."
"The Conners," which also stars John Goodman and Sara Gilbert, follows an eponymous fictional working-class family as they navigate the struggles of daily life and an ever-tightening budget.
A second act for "Roseanne," the series imagines the family at the heart of the original show but without the matriarch, who was played by Roseanne Barr. Barr's controversial comments on Twitter, now X, led to the original reboot of the show being canceled in 2018 and later reimagined as "The Conners."
The spin-off has enjoyed widespread success, but as it winds down don't expect "something wacky or kind of culminating" to happen during the finale, Metcalf's co-star Lecy Goranson warns.
"It's just not really our style. Our show is about real people and real-life situations, so I feel like we don't need to do that," she told People.
Goranson, who plays Becky Conner, says she's not really ready to say goodbye.
"I'm already thinking of the next thing for all of us, including the crew," she told the outlet. "I'm an optimist and I'm thinking, 'How do I keep us all together?' I just refuse to believe that it's done."
When is 'The Conners' finale?
The final six episodes of the show began premiering on ABC on March 26 and will air Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET.
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