Sex & the Sitcom

S1 E2: Lucy and Desi couldn't sleep in the same bed but Fleabag sleeps with her priest. American's changing attitudes towards sex, women's rights, and gender identity - and the winding path from sex as taboo to sex as punchline - have been mapped out with remarkable clarity on the sitcom screen. From "closeted" gay characters like Uncle Arthur on Bewitched to Ellen's coming out to Mitch and Cam's marriage on Modern Family; from Edie, the first Black trans woman on The Jeffersons to Joey Soloway's groundbreaking Transparent; sitcom laughs have helped audiences understand that the world can be so much funnier when not seen solely through a white, cis-gendered, straight point of view. Featuring sitcoms such as Fleabag, Sex and the City, Bewitched, Modern Family, The Jefferson's, and Transparent.