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Media: Video On Demand
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if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with September 8, 2008
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"Swingtown" is the best series television program that has been on American television in years and years. I cannot remember the last time I've watched a show that was so entertaining and funny and clever. A series like "Swingtown" restores my faith in broadcast network television which has otherwise gone to hell in a hand basket.
Truth be told, I never would have watched this show if none other than Grant Show were not staring in it. He's one of my favorite actors and he was on one of my favorite TV shows so I had a feeling that anything he would be in would at least be mildly fun to watch. But this show is way more than just a little fun. And, even if Grant weren't in it, I think I'd still enjoy it. But watching him is just icing on the cake. Doesn't he look so sexy with that mustache, too? In a recent TV Guide interview when asked about his new 70's appearance Grant said: It's a boom-chick-a-boom-boom mustache, that's for sure.
This is the main cast:
Grant Show / Tom Decker
Lana Parrilla / Trina Decker
Shanna Collins / Laurie Miller
Jack Davenport / Bruce Miller
Miriam Shor / Janet Thompson
Nick Benson / Roger Thompson
The show is basically about 3 very different families, living through the free-loving 70's in a suburb of Chicago. The Miller's are more or less your typical family. They moved to a nicer neighborhood with their children. And when they moved, they met Tom and Trina Decker. Tom and Trina are a little more adventurous and enjoy trying new things. Janet & Roger are the Millers' neighbors from their previous neighborhood who they were always very good friends with; however since the move the relationship has become to start getting strained for a variety of reasons.
What's so special about this show?
Well, as the title (may) suggest, some of the principal characters enjoy swinging. The Decker's are serious swingers who just want to make new friends and enjoy themselves. The Miller's are (much) less adventurous, however after meeting Trina and Tom they decide to throw cautions to the wind and try it. And, the Thompson's are at the other end of the pendulum. I wouldn't call them prudes, though. Because I don't think many people would consider swinging a fun thing or even something that would be simple to try.
What's most interesting about this series is watching these 3 very different groups of people come together and put their differences out there for everyone to see. They each have a very diverse perspective and they're each right and wrong in their own ways.
When I think of swinging the very first thing that comes to mind is that hilarious ep from "All in the Family." Do you remember the one? Edith invited a couple that she met from a personals ad over and unbeknownst to her they were a couple of swingers. And, when she found out that they both enjoyed having sex with multiple partners because as they put it, "we were drowning, swinging saved our marriage," Edith replies: "I think I'd rather drown."
Frankly, that's how I feel, too. I'd sooner walk though a burning building before I ever did such a thing. But that doesn't mean that this series still isn't informative and just great to watch. You don't have to take sides and you don't have to be for it or against it to enjoy the show.
CBS has aired a total of 13 eps (these were actually filmed last year and would have aired sooner but the producers had tremendous difficulty getting it picked up) and these included:
Pilot
Love Will Find a Way
Double Exposure
Cabin Fever
Go Your Own Way
Friends With Benefits
Heatwave
Puzzlerama
Swingus Interruptus
Running on Empty
Get Down Tonight
Surprise
Take It To The Limit
The series has been canceled (some of the performers, including Grant, have already contracted with other broadcast series programs,) however because of such an unprecedented popularity that the series has received CBS home-video will be issuing the entire summer season on DVD.
Personally I was not offended by any of the free loving in this series (although there really wasn't that much, except for the ep when Tom and Trina hosted an orgy in their basement.) Speaking of Tom and Trina I was a little put off by all of the drug usage. Two fundamentalist groups already tried to get "Swingtown" boycotted. Whatever happened to live and let live? I suppose changing the channel would be too difficult for these people. Remember, judge not lest ye be judged and in the case of this series you are not what you watch.
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