TV-14
2021
Documentaries
Pop Culture & Celebrities
Escaping Reality
Season 1, Episode 8
: As antidotes to fear in a fast-changing world, what sitcoms offer an escape from -- and what visions they escape to -- reveal insights into the American psyche.
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About the Series
History of the Sitcom
Reminisce about the television you grew up watching and explore how sitcoms have helped generations of Americans navigate an ever-shifting cultural landscape.
Episodes
1. A Family Matter
American sitcoms have evolved to reflect the changing face of the fundamental so...
2. Sex & the Sitcom
Americans' changing attitudes toward sex, women's rights and gender identity hav...
3. Just Friends
By the 1990s, sitcoms about friendship became the vital force driving the genre ...
4. Working for Laughs
Sitcoms evolved in endlessly humorous ways as Americans' relationship with their...
5. Facing Race
Pioneering sitcom creators and stars have opened viewers' minds to the problems ...
6. Movin' on Up
The American Dream of social mobility is so often beyond reach that sitcoms use ...
7. Freaks, Geeks & Outsiders
Sitcom characters who are outsiders have given viewers permission to laugh at th...
8. Escaping Reality
What sitcoms offer an escape from -- and what visions they escape to -- reveal i...
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Season 1, Episode 8 - Escaping Reality
Release Year:
2021
Rating Information:
TV-14
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