Anyone Watch Swingtown?

Juniper · 09-01-2008, 11:44 PM

Just wondering. I got sucked into it, don't know why, I'm not usually a TV watcher. It's rather "adult" in content, so it's not been easy for me to watch it when it airs - since I'm not a usual TV watcher, my family has been like "huh? Mom's watching TV in her room and we can't sit with her?" So I catch it on cbs.com.

Apparently it's just a short-lived one season summer drama. It's set in 1976, I think, and I'm loving all the historical references - the clothes, the decorating, the culture, the music, etc. I'll see something dumb like a green metal cooler and say "I HAVE that cooler!" or "Oh my GOD, that's my mother's Tupperware flour canister!"

So yeah, it's about swinging -- sort of. 70's sexual permissiveness and changing roles, feminism, and all that. I guess I'm about the same age as the folks in this drama, and a lot of my peers' marriages are folding or have done, so I can identify.

Just one more episode, ::sob:: I hate when they set up something interesting and just let it die.

Like Jericho. I know a lot of people thought Jericho was cheesy but I liked it. Yeah, that was CBS too. :shrug:

09-01-2008, 11:44 PM	#1
Juniper I know, right? Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,539	Anyone Watch Swingtown? Just wondering. I got sucked into it, don't know why, I'm not usually a TV watcher. It's rather "adult" in content, so it's not been easy for me to watch it when it airs - since I'm not a usual TV watcher, my family has been like "huh? Mom's watching TV in her room and we can't sit with her?" So I catch it on cbs.com. Apparently it's just a short-lived one season summer drama. It's set in 1976, I think, and I'm loving all the historical references - the clothes, the decorating, the culture, the music, etc. I'll see something dumb like a green metal cooler and say "I HAVE that cooler!" or "Oh my GOD, that's my mother's Tupperware flour canister!" So yeah, it's about swinging -- sort of. 70's sexual permissiveness and changing roles, feminism, and all that. I guess I'm about the same age as the folks in this drama, and a lot of my peers' marriages are folding or have done, so I can identify. Just one more episode, ::sob:: I hate when they set up something interesting and just let it die. Like Jericho. I know a lot of people thought Jericho was cheesy but I liked it. Yeah, that was CBS too. :shrug:

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