Did anyone get a chance to see this new show on CBS last night? It takes place in the swinging 70's. I thought it was pretty good. It had some rockin' 70's tunes playing on it too.

i saw it and as werid as it was i still kind of liked it

^ Yeah, I liked it too!

Kinda boring. This show would be so gone if they aired this during the regular season, but since it's during the summer it would have to do pretty horrible in the ratings to not finish it's run.

^ I guess its not for everyone. It kind of reminds me of Knots Landing.

Made a note to see it..forgot to read the note..anyway :
Wife Swap, the Early Years
It’s 1976, and CBS’ Swingtown is stoned on Thorazine.
By John Leonard Published Jun 1, 2008

Of course, you are too young to remember the seventies, so let me explain. After the cruel disappointments of the tambourine-and-tantrum sixties—the death of utopian fantasies about social justice, racial harmony, peaceable kingdoms, and multiple orgasms—America sought instead its inner hound dog. Some, like Elvis, found it in pharmaceuticals. Others boogied till they puked, under the glitter domes of disco. Many more soaked sore feet in the hot tubs of Esalen and est, hypnotism and health foods, acupuncture and biofeedback, tantric yoga and t’ai chi. Although assassination wasn’t nearly as popular as it had been during the previous decade, still an amazing number of people died in spite of being famous—Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, Igor Stravinsky and Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson and Maria Callas, Pablo Picasso and Francisco Franco. And then there was swinging, an erotics of suburban wife-swap first described in John Updike’s lascivious Couples (1968) and then later deplored in Rick Moody’s lugubrious The Ice Storm (1994).
Swinging! Why CBS, of all the geriatric networks, should have thought we needed another look at such programmatic hanky-panky, not to mention the ridiculous clothes they had to take off to do it, remains mysterious. One would have imagined that the subject had been exhausted, if not by Moody’s novel, in which an acquaintance with Masters and Johnson, Milton Friedman, Erich Fromm, Eldridge Cleaver, and I’m Okay, You’re Okay rubbed up Watergate as a metaphor for existential terror, then certainly by Ang Lee’s 1997 movie adaptation, in which Christina Ricci and Elijah Wood played Franny and Zooey at Plato’s Retreat while reading superhero comic books. For that matter, who needs the lakefront Chicago suburbs of Swingtown when we’ve already got gated communities, restrictive covenants, armed response, and Mary-Louise Parker lost in the premium-cable Weeds?
But CBS is obviously hoping its hoary demographic will be nostalgic for power ballads, pet rocks, test-tube babies, WIN buttons, and swine-flu-vaccine booster shots. So we follow comely Susan (Molly Parker) and handsome Bruce (Jack Davenport) as they abandon such safe, straight neighbors as hysterical Janet (Miriam Shor) and sincere Roger (Josh Hopkins) for a well-heeled, hipper part of town, where there always seems to be a party going on in the busy home of slinky Trina (Lana Parrilla) and hydraulic Tom (Grant Show). Never mind the funny-smelling cigarettes, the dog-eared copies of Penthouse, the blonde cokehead with the tinfoil fetish, and the “playroom” in the basement. What we are really talking about, as one swinger tells another, “is a whole other level of intimacy.” And none of this probably would have happened if Bruce had a clue about foreplay.
Since Swingtown isn’t even peekaboo, much less dirty, I wish I could say that it’s played for laughs. But I don’t know what it’s played for. Most of the time, it seems as sincere as Roger. And all of the time these people are, well, gaping at each other. By which I mean they wear rapt looks, as if they were Easter Island monoliths, or stoned on Thorazine. This is especially true of Parker’s Susan. She was a delight in Deadwood. Here, with her fine red hair and freckle scatter, she seems stuck in reaction shots. You want to drag her out on the lawn and remind her that the seventies also consisted of Stephen Sondheim, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gloria Steinem, and Shaft; of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Billie Jean King, and Robert Altman’s Nashville; of not just Roots but also Jaws. But she is full of dopey wonderment, as if sex were a cult.

^ So, you don't care for it? (lol!)

Saw it last night, and I'm afraid Leonard is right (well, 'cept about me being too young to remember). But like him, I'm a big Parker fan, and I hope CBS will allow Swingtown to get a little more swinging.

I'm sorry, but I loved this show. I saw like the last half of the pilot (but watched the first at CBS.com), and last week's episode, and now it's like a secret pleasure of mine. I find it really good, and the music is awesome - so far I heard it's doing pretty well.

^ I hope it does well enough in the ratings to stick around.

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The kids stuff was the only thing I found interesting. The pacing is too slow. This show would maybe fit better on Showtime if they actually had some swinging going on.

I was looking forward to seeing this show but after CBS dumped it in the summer I decided not to watch. It would have to set the ratings on fire for CBS to give it a regular season birth.

I was looking forward to seeing this show but after CBS dumped it in the summer I decided not to watch. It would have to set the ratings on fire for CBS to give it a regular season birth.

You should give it a try, it's a good show. I'm hoping ratings don't fall anymore than they did from last week. Luckily, this week it won't have the Lakers-Celtics game to bring down ratings, so I'm hoping it can jump back up.

I have a feeling it'll heat up more after last week's episode. Because the Millers said they wanted to open up their marriage more, so that means more swinging. The episode coming tomorrow should be fairly interesting. Am I the only one who likes the overly conservative neighbor lady? I just think it's hilarious how uptight she is. She's like worse than Bree from Desperate Housewives, I mean that's like beyond uptight right there. I've got a feeling that her husband might do something with Mrs. Miller in the show, you can tell how he looks at her that he's attracted to her. I really hope they keep this show going.

^ Yeah Janet is pretty uptight but still kind of nice. All the swingers don't seem to care too much for her. I got a kick out of her & Trina fighting over the food at the party. :lol: And Janet's husband Roger does seem to give longing looks at Susan. That would definitely cause problems if he acted on it. :lol:

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Ha! Yeah that picture was great, although I did feel bad for her. Lol sorry but the game she wanted them to play was kind of lame. Although I wouldn't play Trina's game either, lol. Yeah if Roger does anything with Susan and Janet finds out about it, there will be hell to pay! Ya never know though. Instead of Bob, Carol, Ted, and Alice it could be Bruce, Susan, Janet, and Roger at some point in the show.

^ I felt kind of bad for Janet too. She looked so hurt when she saw that picture. But she was trying so hard to make the party a success with her food & games. Its hard to imagine Janet getting in to the swinging scene but who knows, it might happen. lol!