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I Love Lucy (1951)
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First aired
Lucille Ball can show a plan collapsing before she says a word. Her physical precision and the Ricardo-Mertz quartet's easy rhythm make Lucy's attempts to escape domestic routine feel immediate rather than museum-bound. Its place here rests on the comic performances as much as its importance to television history. Choose it to see how much escalating trouble, a reaction shot and a well-held pause can achieve; the domestic assumptions belong to the 1950s.
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About I Love Lucy
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.