The Fifties
Season 1 • Episode 3: Let's Play House • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: Let's Play House
December 14, 1997
Conforming to the idealized visions of family as depicted on their new televisions, Americans settle into enjoying their American Dreams but discordant voices are beginning to be heard. Grace Metallious's Peyton Place, Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and the opinions of feminists like Betty Friedan begin to make Americans question the idealized nuclear family.
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