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Swingtown - "Pilot" - 6/5/08
Did anyone watch? The whole thing kind of skeeved me out. The 70's look, the creepy glances the characters gave each other. I'll take a pass.
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Crap. I wanted to but forgot. Why didn't you post this YESTERDAY!?!?!?! :brickwl2:
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Watched it this morning after I watched Fear Itself. I read in EW that this was shopped around to HBO and Showtime before CBS took the bite. I does have the feel of a show made for HBO, but it feels watered down. Not to say that it's bad, I like it for what it was, but I don't see it lasting past the summer. The thing that I didn't like was that there was no build up for Bruce and Susan. They gave in right away to what was going on. I would have liked there to have been some build up to this and not having it happen right away. I did like how they are going to deal with Roger and Janet, and that they are going from shock to intriged about swinging also.
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I liked the cheesy 70s look of everything, but I can see it going down the "Desperate Housewives" path. We had storms last night so the last 15 minutes was pre-empted with weather coverage. From the previews, I can guess what happened right after Bruce and Susan went into the swinger party but can someone fill in the details? (spoilerized for those who might have recorded it.)
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Spoiler:
It was funny to watch this show with Bruce and Susan being about the age of my parents in 1976 -- I was five at the time -- and to think about the new house that we moved into circa 1975. I imagine there were some "kinky" things that happened in our neighborhood but I am pretty sure we did not have a "predatory" swinger couple keeping a lookout for new neighbors. :lol: |
Originally Posted by rfduncan
Crap. I wanted to but forgot. Why didn't you post this YESTERDAY!?!?!?! :brickwl2:
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/swingtown/ |
Show wasn't too bad. The music kicked ass! :D
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I haven't watched it yet, looking forward to it.
Heard it did well in the ratings last night. THE PREMIERE OF "SWINGTOWN" BUILDS ON ITS "CSI" LEAD-IN AMONG ADULTS 18-49 AND ADULTS 25-54 "Swingtown" Tops NBC's Competing New Drama "Fear Itself " in Viewers and Key Demos The premiere of CBS's SWINGTOWN, about the culturally transformative decade of the 1970s, built on its CSI lead-in among adults 18-49 and adults 25-54 and topped the competing debut of NBC's "Fear Itself," according to preliminary Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Thursday, June 5. Airing against ABC's Game 1 of the NBA Finals (Lakers vs. Celtics), SWINGTOWN(P) premiered in second place in households (6.0/10), viewers (8.58m), adults 25-54 (3.4/09) and adults 18-49 (2.7/08). SWINGTOWN improved on its CSI lead-in by +17% in both adults 25-54 and adults 18-49 and retained 94% of CSI's household delivery and 91% of viewers. Versus the time period a year ago, SWINGTOWN was up +17% in adults 18-49 and +10% in adults 25-54. Against NBC's premiere of "Fear Itself", SWINGTOWN topped NBC by +71% in households (vs. 3.5/06), +48% in adults 25-54 (vs. 2.3/06), +35% in adults 18-49 (vs. 2.0/06) and by +3.35m viewers (vs. 5.23m, +64%). Viewers who missed last night's SWINGTOWN premiere can watch the full episode on cbs.com and across the CBS Audience Network. Updated Thursday ratings will be available this afternoon. |
I wonder if they changed much from the pilot that was floating around last year.
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I really liked this, but I'm a sucker for time-period pieces. Good music but they really shove it down your throat. I really like this cast. Grant Show looks like he was born to play a 70s swinger. Lana Parilla. :drool: Weird to hear Jack Davenport talk American-English and that hair. :lol:
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Thought it was pretty cool but agree with the poster who said that there should of been a little more build up. Its seems like Bruce and Susan gave in rather quickly. But a show like this i believe would of been better on another network, preferably HBO. Would love to see some ass cheeks in there somewhere, some boobies!!!
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Originally Posted by Red Dog
Lana Parilla. :drool:
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Originally Posted by wishbon3
Spoiler:
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Originally Posted by bigjim25
Kept trying to figure out where I seen her. It was on Windfall, Spin City, and 24. I agree. :drool:
Boomtown and NYPD Blue for me. |
Yeah, this show was definitely made for pay cable. Then parts of it don't have to be imagined but there's plenty of stuff here I wouldn't expect to see on network TV. Lots of drug use (casually accepted) too.
A blow job, a three-way, and Tab in the first 5 minutes! What's not to love? I'm putting it on a season pass. I could do without the kids. They had their own show on Fox. :) Yeah, they crammed the music down our throats. I still love the 70's look though. |
I planned on watching this but completely spaced on it. Somehow I managed to record Fear Itself but didn't even noticed that this was airing at the same time. Guess I must take to the Web to see it ...
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A sexy soap ... what's not to like? Maybe that it's not on Showtime.
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Music was great and it held my interest for the hour. I will tune in again.
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Originally Posted by big whoppa
A blow job, a three-way, and Tab in the first 5 minutes! What's not to love? |
Heads up. Airs tonight.
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Nice juxtaposition between the rotary phone family and the Touch-Tone Trimline phone family at the start of the episode. :lol:
So was the box for Rice-A-Roni that big in the '70s? |
Does anyone else think Bruce and Susan's teenage daughter looks like California Congressman Henry Waxman?
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/loca...log/waxman.jpg |
There needs to be a Playboy Club resurgence.
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Originally Posted by Quatermass
Does anyone else think Bruce and Susan's teenage daughter looks like California Congressman Henry Waxman?
http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/loca...log/waxman.jpg I didn't....til now. :lol: Frankly, I wish they would ditch all the teen storylines (and the teens themselves), particularly her crush on the teacher. |
Nice to see Keen Eddie on the tube again!
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