Geez... I wonder why?
Posted on 08/10/2008 5:33:21 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Someday I may better understand the mechanics of the millennial mind. Until then I will wonder how shows like “Ghost Whisperer” keep going and a series like “Swingtown” fails to catch on. A period piece on CBS, “Swingtown” nears the end of its summer run with a dwindling audience despite all the elements that seemed to point to its potential for popularity.
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Thats like saying “I can’t believe that every one in this country doesn’t get The NY Slimes delivered to their door every morning”.
I’m usually on the Discovery, History, National Geo, TCM and FOX News during the evenings.
Another show that came and went before I saw an episode.
The show is failing because it’s, well, BAD.
I saw the pilot and half of another episode. I would say I wish I could get the time back, but the show was so shallow it allowed me to concentrate on my craft project quite easily and I made excellent progress.
The woman who doesn’t want to sleep around is a tight-a**that can’t handle that her best friend move blocks away and is jealous of the new neighbors(Did I mention she is the church goer?). The swingers in training blow off friends like a sophomore being hit on by star quarterback, with a daughter trying to make it with her high school english teacher. The swinger couple is smarmy. The whole thing is just surreal creepy.
We get the shows when we want to see them and with shorter commercials. We already have broadband, so we don't want cable as well. Hulu.com keeps adding new shows every week; it's like watching the favorite TV of the past 40 years.
Geez... I wonder why?
I for one had no intention of giving a show about swinging a chance. IF that’s the hook you have to have to make a show, your show isn’t worth watching.
I wish network TV would learn this.
Oh, and BTW, I lived through the 70s, and if I feel like some nastalgia for it, I’ll turn on a rerun of that 70s show.. not this drivel.
Let me be the first to say it..guilty!
Thanks for the info..... I visited the site and it is all there.
I have the laptop connected to the LCD TV and it works great...... now I need to work on getting the audio working and we will be in business big time
Net works are toast.
GW has Jennifer Love Hewitt and the accompanying superstructure, along with a somewhat normal married and heterosexual relationship , something the morons at the Times find disgusting, I am sure.
Swingtown is actually a good show with an interesting adult storyline, well cast performers, and pretty good attention to the contemporary details. However also major flaws that SERIOUSLY cripple the program.
The main problem is the producers insist half the show focus on the children. A teenage daughter having an affair with her teacher, and the younger boy who may be gay or just enough of a wimp the girls beat him up. The children add nothing to the show but repeatedly bring the adult storyline to a screeching halt.
The adult plot and the children’s plot run simultaneously, switching back and forth like someone with attention deficit disorder is holding your remote control trying to watch two unrelated shows. You want to yell at the writers STOP IT.
As for the sex, there is more sex in Two and Half Men or that terrible Carpooling show. At least Swingtown isn’t smarmy as a Charlie Sheen sitcom.
I give them credit for trying to put on a program for adults rather then yet another reality show. But a decade or so ago the networks would give a show a chance to find its footing, take the time to identify and correct the flaws.
The genius of the Two and Half Men show, is that Charlie Sheen just has to be himself, no acting required.
"Network evening newscasts will go dark after the '08 elections and their news divisions disbanded."
Walter Abbott, 1950 -
I suppose "Swingtown" is technically a period piece since it's in the past but using the same desciption to for this trashy show as one would use for say the Austen series on PBS recently made my stomach churn.
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