Into That Good Night Into That Good Night Into That Good Night is the season 9 finale of "Roseanne" and was the original show's series finale until the revival and the tenth season premiered in 2018. The episode aired May 20, 1997 on ABC. After a panned season, this episode undid all the plot progressions since the Conners winning the lottery by claiming it was all a fictionalization. This confused and annoyed many critics, and it remains one of the most controversial finales of all time. The title refers to the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas. The
Into That Good Night beginning of season nine saw the Conners win the lottery, which changed the dynamic of the show by increasing their socio-economic level. This finale "ripped out the rug from under viewers" by showing that the entire plot of the ninth season was in fact a dream that Roseanne Conner had concocted in her new career as a writer. "Time" listed it in its article "That Was It?: 10 Controversial TV Series Finales", describing it as "off-the-rails loopy", and compared the finale to Barr's career at that point: "by becoming rich and famous, she’d turned into an unbearable diva who’d forgotten