She built a $40 million television empire out of her own life, then got locked out of the house she created while everyone else kept living inside. The story of Roseanne Barr is a roller coaster with no brakes.

This episode is a psychological profile of a creator who could not separate herself from her creation, tracing how the same unfiltered authenticity that made her a revolutionary voice in 1980s comedy became her ultimate undoing in the social-media era.

• A childhood double life as secretly Jewish and publicly Mormon, and a teenage car accident that impaled her skull and shattered her social filters
• The ‘domestic goddess’ persona that weaponized working-class exhaustion and gave voice to the ‘invisible pink-collar army’
• Her scorched-earth battle for creative control that got the show’s legal creator fired after 13 episodes
• The dizzying political whiplash unified by pure anti-institutionalism, from beheading bankers to backing Trump
• The 2018 tweet, the ‘Ambien defense,’ Sanofi’s blunt rebuttal, and the hours-long cancellation of TV’s highest-rated show