Geez... I wonder why?
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.
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.
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.
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.