American Playhouse Season 2

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, American Playhouse Season 2 is available on streaming right now. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. With 8 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. The chemistry between the cast is the real hook. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, American Playhouse Season 2 earns its spot. American Playhouse Season 2 does what great comedies rarely manage — it is actually funny, consistently, across the whole run. Season 2 of American Playhouse includes 12 episodes. It aired from January 1983 to May 1983. Episodes include "The Skin of Our Teeth", "Miss Lonelyhearts", "Family Business". It was aired in 1983. The real test of any comedy is whether it is still funny once you know all the jokes, and American Playhouse Season 2 holds up on rewatch in a way that separates it from one-off curiosities. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

American Playhouse Season 2 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. The ensemble carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.

🎬 American Playhouse Season 2 — Episode Guide

The Skin of Our Teeth

1983-01-18

The Antrobus family and their housekeeper Lilly Sabina face various global disasters, including a new ice age, a great flood, and a devastating war.

Miss Lonelyhearts

1983-01-25

A young Depression-era reporter is assigned to write his newspaper's advice column on the insistence of his mocking editor. Unhappy in the demeaning assignment, he begins to take an interest in one of the readers sending letters.

Family Business

1983-02-01

Isaiah Stern is a wealthy, but dying, toy manufacturer. Once more, Stern has gathered his grown sons to revise his will. Three of the four are used to these idiosyncratic changes, and have come to accept them: however, the fourth, a married psychologist, is heavily in debt and doesn't like his thin ...

Keeping On

1983-02-08

A low-key drama exploring the struggles of an impoverished sharecropping family in the rural South with themes of Southern identity, morality, and family.

The File on Jill Hatch (1)

1983-02-15

A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.

The File on Jill Hatch (2)

1983-02-22

A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.

The File on Jill Hatch (3)

1983-03-01

A decade-spanning look at marriage of a Black American soldier and a white British woman.

For Us, the Living: The Medgar Evers Story

1983-03-22

During the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi, Medgar Evers rose from insurance agent to one of the most integral activists of the era. From boycotting white merchants in the mid-'50s to being a key figure in desegregating the University of Mississippi in 1962, Evers met success, and with it, many...

Verse Person Singular

1983-03-29

Actor Richard Kiley takes on the personae of thirteen different characters as he reads his favorite poems written in the first-person.

E10

Until She Talks

1983-04-05

The story of a young woman imprisoned for declining to testify before a grand jury; comprised from real courtroom transcripts and based on the experiences of individuals jailed for their refusal to testify.

E11

Wings

1983-04-26

Former aviatrix Emily Stilson suffers a stroke and is plunged into a world of disorientation and grief. Memories flood in between painful attempts to re-learn the basic functions of everyday life.

E12

The Rothko Conspiracy

1983-05-03

A dramatization of the fight over the estate of artist Mark Rothko, who killed himself in 1970.

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