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Swingtown Comes To CBS!
May. 26th, 2008 05:14 pmOK, this isn't exactly polyamorous, but at FPR, someone gave me a copy of a pilot TV show that was searching for a network. The show is called Swingtown and it's about married swingers in the '70s. I watched the pilot with some bit of trepidation and I ended up being pleasantly surprised. It was actually a decent show, although I did have some reservations about the plot - namely that a previously monogamous couple seemed to jump into a swing event pretty quickly and easily with no previous inclination towards non-monogamy in their 10-year history together.
Swingtown has been picked up by CBS and will begin airing on June 5th. Check out the trailer and watch full episodes on: http://kepr.cbsnow.com/primetime/swingtown/.
But, regardless of whether the show turns out to be good or bad, it DOES affect the poly community in the same way that Big Love does. It's a popular show broadcast on regular network television that mainstream America will be exposed to. We can expect to now get comments like "Oh, so you're like those Swingtown people?" just like we sometimes hear "Oh, so it's like Big Love?" This can be a good resource, regardless of its quality, to use in our education of mainstream America. We can use this as a tool to compare and contrast what polyamory is and is not in terms the uninitiated might understand.
So whether the show is good or not, whether we like it or not, whether we are "out" or not, this is something that we poly people should be keeping an eye on.
Swingtown has been picked up by CBS and will begin airing on June 5th. Check out the trailer and watch full episodes on: http://kepr.cbsnow.com/primetime/swingtown/.
"SWINGTOWN, from the director of "Big Love" and "Rome," traces two generations of friends and neighbors as they forge intimate connections and explore new freedoms during the culturally transformative decade of the 1970s. It portrays the ever-shifting “swing” of the pendulum that reflected the change in America's collective value system -- morally, politically and socially.I will be watching it because I did like the pilot and it appears as though this exact pilot is what will be aired as the first show.
After moving to an upscale lakeside Chicago suburb in July of 1976, Susan and Bruce Miller must confront temptation in the form of their provocative new neighbors, Tom and Trina Decker, while not abandoning their old friends Janet and Roger Thompson. As the adult couples evaluate whether to embrace or avoid newfound personal freedoms, the curious Miller and Thompson children begin to discover and assert their own morality and sexual identities as they come of age in a world on the precipice of change.
In a shifting social climate -- defined by its music, fashion and style -- everyone in SWINGTOWN is confronted with personal choices, experimentation and varying attitudes."
But, regardless of whether the show turns out to be good or bad, it DOES affect the poly community in the same way that Big Love does. It's a popular show broadcast on regular network television that mainstream America will be exposed to. We can expect to now get comments like "Oh, so you're like those Swingtown people?" just like we sometimes hear "Oh, so it's like Big Love?" This can be a good resource, regardless of its quality, to use in our education of mainstream America. We can use this as a tool to compare and contrast what polyamory is and is not in terms the uninitiated might understand.
So whether the show is good or not, whether we like it or not, whether we are "out" or not, this is something that we poly people should be keeping an eye on.
