Swingtown started on M-Net Series exactly two weeks ago (Wednesday, 27 August a 22h00) and it's so sexily scandalous I'm
finished for it.
Set in 1970's America - during the rise of women's lib and the sexual revolution - the show's about ordinary couple Bruce and Susan:
They hit some new money on the stock market, move to a more upmarket neighbourhood and get super-friendly with their new neighbours: air pilot Tom and his wife Trina.
Their first encounter with them happens shortly after Bruce and Susan move into their new house - they go over to a party at Tom and Trina's, it turns Orgy and next thing B. and S. end up shagging T &T as a foursome - all in the first episode.
Also very important in the set-up are Bruce and Susan's kids Laurie and BJ; as well as their old friends Janet and Roger - who've stayed behind in their old neighbourhood and feel they've been replaced.
The brilliant thing is that the show's super-challenging to everything you thought you thunk - it makes you question how you feel about sex and swinging bigtime.
In
this interview, the show's creator Mike Kelley (a writer on The OC and Providence) says that he wrote the show based on his observations of his parents and their swinging during the '70's - which gives it added clout, knowing it's all fully for real - all made more absorbing by the surreal '70's styling.
The season has 13 episodes in total and the season reaches a semi-conclusion. Unfortunately the future of the show doesn't look too promising - it's on CBS in the US which is a public broadcaster and it's had too many parental boards complaining about it. I'm hoping it gets picked up by Showtime or HBO or something so we can see more.
All in all I'd highly sexcommend you catch up with it if you haven't been watching and see what it makes you think ..
... you'll never look at your neighbours the same way again.
Would you? Could you ...?
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Please see
TVSA's Swingtown Mini-Site for more info - including Repeat times.