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Laura Gómez and Selenis Leyva in *Orange Is the New Black*; Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Billy Porter in *Pose*; Park Hae-soo and Lee Jung-jae in *Squid Game*; Mary Tyler Moore in *The Mary Tyler Moore Show*. Photos Courtesy: Netflix; FX; Getty Images

Whether a show is a full guilty pleasure or a highbrow icon of Prestige TV, a feel-good sitcom or a high-concept drama, television receiver has the ability not merely to represent and mirror lodge only teach the states some valuable lessons nigh acceptance and openness.

That's why we've decided to have a wait back at Boob tube history and highlight a few titles that made TV a more representative, progressive and diverse place.

I Love Lucy

Back in the 1950s, Lucille Ball's sitcom I Beloved Lucy, in which her character was married to Ball's real-life hubby Desi Arnaz, broke a large TV taboo. When the actress became pregnant the couple thought the prove, which had aired for one flavor on CBS, would be canceled or put on hiatus until afterwards she gave birth. Pregnancy wasn't a affair that happened on TV at the time. And writing around an actress's pregnancy hasn't e'er been as easy every bit getting Scandal's Kerry Washington a few fabulous coats.

In the end, Ball's pregnancy was written into the show, an approach that'southward been used plenty of times in scripted Telly since then. The writers would have to avoid the discussion "pregnant" though, considered too vulgar to air. The episode in which Lucy's pregnancy was announced aired in 1952. It was titled "Lucy Is Enceinte" considering patently information technology'southward OK to refer to the "p" give-and-take in French. The characters used exact workarounds like "we're having a baby" or "blessed consequence" to imply Lucy's state.

William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols in *Star Trek*. Original airdate of the episode: November 22, 1968. Photo Courtesy: Everett Collection

Star Trek: The Original Series non only garnered a devoted following that's since spun several sequel series, spin-offs and movie franchises over the decades, information technology was besides a rare example of diversity on screen. Nichelle Williams played Uhura, a Starfleet Lieutenant and communications officer, making the show i of the first to feature a Black woman not portraying a servant. George Takei played Lieutenant Sulu, the U.S.S. Enterprise'south helmsman. Having a Japanese American actor in such a visible role just two decades after Earth War Two, a time defined past America's anti-Asian policies and racism, also highlighted the prove's commitment to representation.

Then there's the buss. Uhura and Captain Kirk (William Shatner) kissed in a 1968 episode while under the influence of aliens. You can fence whether that was the first interracial kiss on screen or not, but it sure proved the show's dedication to the depiction of a plural and diverse club. And it confirmed Kirk's famous words: "Where I come from, size, shape or color makes no difference."

The Mary Tyler Moore Testify

Mary Tyler Moore in *The Mary Tyler Moore Bear witness*. Photo Courtesy: Everett Collection

This seven-season sitcom that aired between 1970 and 1977 broke a few molds. It starred Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards, a single woman in her 30s focused on her career in a TV station. The prove was created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns but boasted a writers' room where there was as well a meaning number of women, peculiarly for the period. Treva Silverman was ane of the beginning women hired as a author for the show, and, importantly, she shared her ain experiences to inform the characters' lives.

Other than in the writers' room, the show was groundbreaking considering information technology focused on the life of an independent career woman who didn't care nigh getting married. And although certain themes weren't treated in the same, direct way we've grown accepted to in the past few decades, the show made suggestions nigh Mary having an active sexual life and taking the pill.

It too paved the fashion for other career-women-centered shows like Murphy Brown, Ally McBeal, 30 Stone and even Sex and the City.

Ellen

The sitcom Ellen, starring Ellen DeGeneres as Ellen Morgan, was on its quaternary flavour when it aired "The Puppy Episode" in 1997. In it, Morgan was attracted to a character played by Laura Dern and she came out as gay to her friends. The "Aye, I'm gay" moment was big for American TV because up until then gay characters had been relegated to secondary, generally i-annotation roles. DeGeneres' character announcing her sexual orientation coincided with the actress herself also formally coming out with a Time mag embrace and interview.

DeGeneres' figure was under scrutiny last year regarding allegations of a toxic piece of work environment in her talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, only in the 1990s her sitcom cleared the way for further LGBTQ+ representation on Television set. The sitcom Will & Grace started airing in 1998 with Eric McCormack playing gay lawyer Will and best friend to Grace (Debra Messing). And so there was Queer as Folk on Start in 2000. Information technology was an accommodation of a British show of the same name and depicted a group of gay friends — and their sexual practice lives — in a nuanced fashion.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Karyn Parsons, Tatyana Ali, Joseph Marcell, James Avery, Volition Smith, Janet Hubert and Alfonso Ribeiro in *Fresh Prince of Bel-Air*. Photo Courtesy: Everett Collection

The Banks — and their Philadelphia-built-in nephew Volition Smith — weren't the first Black family unit on a successful TV sitcom with international success. The Cosby Show reigned first with eight seasons, running from 1984 to 1992, before Nib Cosby's sexual activity crimes came to light.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air started airing in 1990 and was loosely based on Smith's life. The six-season sitcom jump-started Smith's career. Merely other than making the protagonist a motion picture star, the show also highlighted the life of a wealthy, stable and higher-educated Black family unit, widening the scope of how Black characters were represented on Telly.

Even though information technology was a sitcom, the testify defined the golden era for Black TV in the '90s and

as well tackled serious topics like police profiling — Will and Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) get pulled over past the police force while driving a Mercedes Benz — drug use, gun violence, date rape, HIV, racism and other issues. And y'all can still enjoy it regardless of your have on Peacock'southward dramatic remake, Bel-Air — or even The Slap.

Ugly Betty

The dramedy Ugly Betty, which ran on ABC for iv seasons betwixt 2006 and 2010, was an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea. The prove put a Mexican American family front and center in a primetime evidence. Information technology besides starred America Ferrera, who played an unstylish but hard-working adult female who ends upwards working at a fashion magazine. Tony Plana played Betty'south dad and he often mixed Spanish and English dialogue in the show, the style a lot of Hispanic families do. And Ana Ortiz played Hilda, Betty'due south older sis. The show garnered praise for its representation of Latinas on Goggle box.

But it also addressed topics like body paradigm and Hilda's teenage son coming out as gay. Besides winning iii Emmys, Ugly Betty won 2 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Media Awards.

Ortiz is once more involved in a history-making Tv set prove: Hulu's Love, Victor. The bear witness centers on Victor — a half-Colombian-American, half-Puerto Rican gay teenager — and his struggles to tell his religious family he's gay. Ortiz plays Victor'due south mom.

Orange Is the New Black

Kate Mulgrew, Diane Guerrero, Selenis Leyva, Jessica Pimentel, Jackie Cruz and Dascha Polanco in *Orangish is the New Black*. Photo Courtesy: Netflix

What started equally the adaptation of Piper Kerman's memoir well-nigh the months she spent in prison for a decade-erstwhile drug conviction, ended upwardly condign much more than that. As Jenji Kohan'southward (Weeds) testify progressed, it stopped focusing on Piper (Taylor Schilling) and opened the scope to an incredibly diverse ensemble cast of women. The show, which aired for vii seasons on Netflix from 2013 to 2019, became a refreshing blend of tales from all the women who made it.

In later seasons, the series also commented on the for-profit prison system and immigration. Just its inclusion of women of all ages, races and backgrounds is what made it stand out in the first place. Plus, the series has helped cement the careers of actresses Uzo Aduba (Mrs. America, In Handling), Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll), Samira Wiley (The Handmaid's Tale) and Laverne Cox (Promising Young Woman).

Pose

FX's Pose not just meant a front-row seat to ballroom culture. The bear witness, created past Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals, is prepare in the late '80s and early '90s and depicts the lives of a group of Black and Latina transgender women and their gay friends. They're in the midst of the AIDS epidemic and try to cleave a place for themselves in a society that turns a blind eye or simply rejects them, all while they reshape the definition of family.

The show made headlines when it outset debuted in 2018 for having the largest transgender cast of any scripted series. Not only that, the show enlisted writer and activist Janet Mock, and, soon after, she became the first transgender woman of color to write and direct an episode of boob tube. Mock has written and directed several Pose's episodes since. Pose's best-known confront is perhaps that of Baton Porter. The Emmy-winning actor has become a red carpet fixture cheers to the evidence'due south success. He's taken the curtain from his character Pray Tell and helped redefine what masculinity means.

Rutherford Falls

This Peacock sitcom that aired its get-go flavor in April 2021 is co-created and executive produced by Ed Helms, Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation) and Sierra Teller Ornelas (Superstore). Teller Ornelas is Navajo and one of the v Native writers on this show. In fact, Rutherford Falls has ane of the largest Indigenous writers' rooms in history, co-ordinate to Peacock.

Native American representation is as well a big part of Rutherford Falls in front of the cameras with actors Jana Schmieding and Michael Greyeyes playing members of the fictional Minishonka Nation. Rutherford Falls has been praised for its depiction of Native American characters and cultures and inclusive representation. The show also stars Helms as Nathan Rutherford and Jesse Leigh every bit Bobbie Yang, Nathan'southward non-binary executive assistant.

Rutherford Falls has but aired one season so far simply wasn't the merely trailblazing evidence to open new opportunities for Native American narratives told by Indigenous creators and actors. Also in 2021, we saw the release of the coming-of-age one-act Reservation Dogs on FX. The Taika Waititi- and Sterlin Harjo-created show'southward outset flavour was completely written, directed and starring Indigenous people.

Squid Game

This S Korean striking 2021 prove broke records by becoming Netflix's nearly popular Tv evidence — both because international shows merely likewise in English — when you take into account the show's viewed hours during the first 28 days of it being released. Squid Game accounts for 1,650,450,000 viewed hours during that time frame, according to Netflix.

In comparing, Netflix's second about popular non-English show is the fourth flavour of the Spanish heist drama Money Heist, which has 619,010,000 hours viewed. In English language, the most pop Netflix evidence is the 2d season of Bridgerton with 627,110,000 hours viewed. Squid Game more than doubles whatsoever of those numbers.