The Last Great Family Sitcom Is Finally Streaming in Full — Only on Netflix

If you want the complete run of one of TV's last great family sitcoms, you have to go to Netflix. Not ideal if you like to hop between apps, but here we are.'The Conners' season 7 finally hit NetflixNearly a year after it wrapped on ABC, 'The Conners' is now streaming start to finish on Netflix. The first six seasons were already parked there; the final batch just arrived too. Other streamers carry the show, but Netflix is the only place with the final six episodes from season 7, so it is the only home for the full series right now. Season 7 was intentionally short — six episodes — and it used that time to clean up lingering threads from both 'Roseanne' and the spinoff, then land an ending that actually feels earned for the Lanford crew. It could have probably run a couple more years, and ABC was open to that, but co-showrunner Bruce Helford and star John Goodman had been signaling it was time to wrap. Given those comments, the decision to end after season 7 was not exactly shocking, and at least the family got a proper send-off.How we got here (and why it is so hard to duplicate)'The Conners' exists because the 2018 'Roseanne' revival imploded after one season. Roseanne Barr was fired, ABC still wanted the Lanford story, and the network pressed on without its original matriarch and title character. The first stretch of 'The Conners' was bumpy while it separated itself from 'Roseanne,' but once the show settled into its own identity, both longtime fans and newcomers stuck with it. That kind of revival is incredibly tough to pull off, let alone sustain for a long run. Plenty of reboots and continuations flare up with early buzz, then fade out by season 2 or 3. 'The Conners' cleared that bar and then some, which is why its success is going to be very hard for anyone else to copy.Meanwhile, sitcoms are still very much aliveTraditional broadcast and streaming comedies are doing just fine. Network spin-offs and adaptations like CBS's 'Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage' and 'Ghosts' keep pulling steady audiences. Streaming originals such as Apple TV 's wildly praised 'Ted Lasso' and HBO 's 'Hacks' prove the format still works when you give it real resources and a point of view. Netflix, for its part, has been stocking both new and old. The service is touting current originals — including Ted Danson's 'Man on the Inside' and Leanne Morgan's 'Leanne' — and it has a deep bench of proven favorites like 'Seinfeld, ' 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' and 'Kim's Convenience.' If those first two titles made you do a double take, you are not alone; Netflix has been leaning into star-led multicams and stand-up-to-sitcom pivots lately.The bottom lineAll seven seasons of 'The Conners' are now on Netflix, and it is the only place with the final six episodes. If you have been waiting to binge the whole thing or just want to see how they closed the book on Lanford, you finally have a single stop to do it.

The Last Great Family Sitcom Is Finally Streaming in Full — Only on Netflix

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