A small-town housewife struggles to cope with the increasingly bizarre and violent events unfolding around her.A small-town housewife struggles to cope with the increasingly bizarre and violent events unfolding around her.A small-town housewife struggles to cope with the increasingly bizarre and violent events unfolding around her.
- Won 2 Primetime Emmys
- 2 wins & 3 nominations total
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- TriviaOne of the first multi-camera American comedies not to use a studio audience or laugh track. This is due to the soap opera-style approach.
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Mary Hartman: [Mary realizes she went to elementary school with the man who has kidnapped her] Remember me, Mary Shumway? Mary Shumway?
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 29th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1977)
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Candide in a consumer society
A sharply satirical soap opera about a modern-day "Candide" (Louise Lasser) and the dysfunctional pre-fab Americana she inhabits. In the opening episodes (beginning 1/76), Mary has to contend with her impotent husband, indifferent daughter, pervert grandpa, hot-to-trot sister, and the massacre of a local family (along with their 2 goats and 8 chickens) but it seems the waxy yellow build-up on her kitchen floor subliminally affected the mass media-influenced Mary more than all the domestic drama combined. The absence of a canned laugh track can make viewers feel they're either losing their mind or experiencing a darkly comedic, penetrating pop-culture parody. Possibly both. I loved it then and I love it now!
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