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Night Is Falling And The Music’s Calling!! But Does Hercules Think Viewers Got To Get Down To CBS’ SWINGTOWN??

Hahahaaha by Series7	Jun 5th, 2008 01:08:20 AM
I thought this was about voting, like that dumb looking Kevin Costner movie Swing Vote.
Hmmmmmmm by Series7	Jun 5th, 2008 01:12:35 AM
Is this the only new real show coming out this summer? Everything else seems like its more reality TV. Man all that talk about Mad Men, when does that start back up.
Mad Men returns by Hercules	Jun 5th, 2008 01:16:34 AM
July 27
No way will this have a Season 2 by Mullah Omar	Jun 5th, 2008 01:23:50 AM
In fact I wonder whether it will last until midseason. UNHAPPY SLIMEBALLS: THE SERIES does not sound like the sort of thing that advertisers want to associate themselves with or that audiences really want to watch.
I guess Americas Next Top Dog by Series7	Jun 5th, 2008 01:30:54 AM
Will have till due till then. Actually the reality shows this summer look mildly entertaining and are getting us one step closer to OW MY BALLS! I wonder how the American version of Tashiki's castle will be? Can't be worse then the Mole.
Lemme guess. by gotilk	Jun 5th, 2008 01:51:35 AM
It's the NEW 70s. Tube tops with wonderbras.
So it's up against "Fear Itself"? by tonagan	Jun 5th, 2008 04:08:26 AM
Isn't that the show that Moriarty is involved with?
Why then? by The StarWolf	Jun 5th, 2008 05:34:32 AM
If they HAD to do a show in the seventies, why get it wrong and focus on the latter part, when fashions were horribly bland compared to the earlier half of the decade?
Maybe they give it to showtime if it runs decent. by ev1ldead	Jun 5th, 2008 05:34:54 AM
The stuff has potential ...but not on a network.
ill turn the tv back on,on july 27th then by bacci40	Jun 5th, 2008 06:16:01 AM
cuz madmen is must see tv...the above show sounds like shit...
StarWolf...early part of the 70s is still 60's ish by bacci40	Jun 5th, 2008 06:18:07 AM
it wasnt till after nixon was ousted from office and disco came into being, did the 70s really become the 70s
bacci40, SOL 68,JJ/JM/JH Dead early 70's by EvilWizardGlick	Jun 5th, 2008 07:18:05 AM
People forget that the Summer of Love was 1968. That was pretty late in the sixties. The big three, Joplin/Morrison/Hendrix all died by 1971. Vietnam war ended in 1975. So all the real hippy shit was in the early 70's. Musically you had a great punk undertone with Lou Reed/David Bowie/iggy Pop. The Ramones were founded in 1974. Disco didn't happen until 73 or 74.
Sounds really lame. Sex! Drugs! But not really! by Yeti	Jun 5th, 2008 07:44:05 AM
Although you know the fuckwits in the Family Television Counsel (or whatever it's called) will be glued to their sets to keep an eye on all the immorality so they can bitch about it.
If you're gonna use Chicago, make it present day by terry1978	Jun 5th, 2008 07:55:28 AM
There's only a handful of shows on now that utilize my hometown, and they usually get the culture so wrong it's sad...basically making it out to be NYC, only a little more culturally stunted.
Great... by TopHat	Jun 5th, 2008 08:02:46 AM
...yet more Hollywood "Its okay to cheat on your husband" propoganda. Do you really think EVERYONE was swingers back then? I don't. I think there were a few, but, like all of media and Hollywood they hyped it all up, and everyone agreed just so they'd feel cool. I watched this series on VH1 about the 60s, and one woman said that no one actually burnt their bras! It all just people trying to hype up their generation. (*que the Talkbacker who states "Well, my parents and a lot of my friend's parents swung, so, everyone was like that!") Again, this all just propoganda for women to cheat.
good job ny slimes by ZO	Jun 5th, 2008 09:29:50 AM
Swingtown” is not as wryly tender as the sitcom “The Wonder Years,” set roughly during the same period, considering the wonder years was a classic 60's sitcom
Winnetka by Funketeer	Jun 5th, 2008 09:33:25 AM
I grew up in the town where this takes place. If they'd actually filmed it there I might be interested.
Molly Parker by optimus122	Jun 5th, 2008 10:48:43 AM
is still smoking hot..id love to bang her longtime. I really miss Deadwood :(
70's are played out by jimmy rabbitte	Jun 5th, 2008 11:33:42 AM
...just let them go...
No Naked Molly Parker, no need to watch by MGTHEDJ	Jun 5th, 2008 02:34:43 PM
I hope Les has shut down his e-mail and forwarded his voice-mails to a dead extention, because he is going to catch so much shit from the conservatives tonight. And yes, why is this on CBS and not their sister channel Showtime?-----later-----m
As someone said about Rodriguez's prison show... by Mo_Green	Jun 5th, 2008 02:59:52 PM
...if I want to watch porn, I'll watch porn. Who exactly is this show supposed to appeal to? Everyone has HBO and Showtime today so putting a show with no actual nudity and limited sexual content on network television is not going to titillate anyone. BAD IDEA.
EvilWizardGlick....no need to educate me by bacci40	Jun 5th, 2008 03:17:23 PM
i was there...i remember seeing the first girl in hip huggers and elephant bells...i cringed at the first notes of disco and rejoiced at the onrush of punk...i still remember spending summer camp listening to yes and frampton comes alive....i am fucking old...and the reason i wont watch this show is because its not realistic...my parents (all of our parents) were like the parents of that 70s show...they werent swingers...some tried to be hip, but they were kids of the depression and the war...and thats why i love madmen...cuz those are the people our parents became...
Wonder Years by oisin5199	Jun 5th, 2008 06:25:26 PM
um, that was the mid to late 60s, this is late 70s, so not so much the same period there, New York Times. Get it right. Oh and this writer was from Winnetka (Chicago suburb) and based it on his childhood, and one of the actors is the woman who was phenomenal as the male singer in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I remember when she was an undergraduate acting major at University of Michigan...
Only way it'll work is by estacado1	Jun 5th, 2008 07:02:15 PM
if it has nudity. Being on network, it will be a 1 season show.
The swinging neighbor woman.... by Smerdyakov	Jun 5th, 2008 10:46:11 PM
Looks almost exactly like porn atar Kelly Nichols who'd be like 48-49 now. Who could forget her bathtub masturbation scene in "The Toolbox Murders."
Is it -- as they blat on ET -- "sexy hot"? by kabong	Jun 5th, 2008 11:03:06 PM
Hubba hubba. Going back another twenty years. They should reimagine Dobie Gillis. But make it sexy hot.
Molly Parker got really raunchy in other films by JackRabbitSlim	Jun 5th, 2008 11:34:09 PM
The one that pops to mind is The Center of the World - a shitty DV movie that features Miss Parker certainly seeming to rub one off on camera. Not the greatest career move.
I like the one where she fucks a corpse. by Andre the Frog	Jun 6th, 2008 07:27:43 AM
Talk about Stiff.
And your point is? by The StarWolf	Jun 6th, 2008 07:39:03 AM
Bacci40 - I'm not sure what your point has to do with my comment that, if one MUST set a show in the 70s (which is defined chronologically as 1970-1979 - check the calendar), why not do it in the earlier part when at least clothes and music were more interesting than in the bland, dull mid-late 70s?
'ludes by Felix_Happer	Jun 6th, 2008 12:26:55 PM
damn I miss those.
I, 4 1, love by Napoleon Park	Jun 6th, 2008 02:32:57 PM
that their dope dealer is named Bud Green.
"allow depictions of consequence-free drug abuse" by Big Jim	Jun 6th, 2008 03:49:02 PM
That's not bad, it's depictions of drug USE that's a no-no. 70's Show never showed them getting high, just being high. It's the same for sex: pre & post coitus is ok, but the actual "gettin' it on" is very carefully controlled. gotham_night, I think it is set in '76 (will they have an episode dealing with a big swinger bi-centenial blowout bash?). The Star Wars references will have to be put on hold until Season 2. Unless one of the kids is a sci-fi fan and has read about "this cool looking movie that's being released next year".
And they shot it in Austin! by 433	Jun 6th, 2008 07:42:42 PM
When the kids are leaving the movie theater, it's the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar! ...and that was the most interesting part of the show.
Might have been good if... by drumking94	Jun 7th, 2008 10:18:20 AM
it was on Showtime. F-bombs, drug use, and titties galore!!!
Depiction of drug use by Napoleon Park	Jun 7th, 2008 01:42:52 PM
I did notice that the neighbor developing a cocaine dependency was out of it and looking to score, not shown snorting. Also, they only show rolling papers, no weed or buds or folks cleaning stems and seeds on a double fold album cover.
Just because the disco meat-market era by Napoleon Park	Jun 7th, 2008 01:45:42 PM
was pre-Aids... we still had clap, syph, crabs and... what's that other thing people use condoms to avoid... oh, yeah, PREGNANCY. They should do an episode where Susan finds her big-toothed daughter's birth control Pills.
Anyone think one of the boys is gay? by Napoleon Park	Jun 7th, 2008 01:48:43 PM
It's pretty normal for boys that age to hang out together and talk about how horny they are - there's nothing wrong with that, right? Just 'cause someone calls you "the other F-word", that doesn't make you one.
HBO, Showtime... yawn by Napoleon Park	Jun 7th, 2008 01:50:22 PM
Only testosterone-poisoned adolescents think the nudie shows on pay cable are tittilating. "Life is too short for softcore porn".
Molly Parker reminds me of by Napoleon Park	Jun 7th, 2008 01:51:26 PM
a cross between Laura Prepon and Dana Delany without being as pretty as either... but somehow that makes her sexier.
Lana Parilla (Trina) by Napoleon Park	Jun 7th, 2008 01:55:25 PM
was Greta on LOST. From the underwater Looking glass Station. That's where you know her from. I love her feathered Holly McCall hair-do on this. And I love the character's Bi-vibe. If only they could get Tracy Mitteldorf (Bonnie from Lost) for a hot Greta on Bonnie action reunion.
People do we really wanna remeber 1970's titties by ChocolateJesusMan	Jun 7th, 2008 02:56:45 PM
Fried eggs on a nail & bush like like a burmese jungle indeed
Lana Parilla by Big Jim	Jun 7th, 2008 05:42:15 PM
She was also on 24. She was a CTU agent in season 4. But I remember her best from Boomtown ("the best show you've never seen").
Yes, CJM. People want to remember real beasts. by Napoleon Park	Jun 7th, 2008 06:14:11 PM
It's that awful shot-on-video crap with the silicone overinflated beach ball boobs that people want to forget. And shaved was cool when Linda Lovelace did in in Deep Throat, but all this nonsense about trimming it into exCLAMations points and wedges and little boxes is just rediculous. Over trimming, waxing, silicone boobs, collagen lips, tattoos and any body piercing not in the nipples or labia are what's wrong with modern porn. and don't start me on the atrocity of women paying to have their wings clipped to look "neat." Those meat curtains are there for a reason. And chicks in their mid-twenties wearing braces on theri teeth and claiming that they've been teenagers for ten years is killing internet porn. Seventies porn - "porno Chic" shot on film, with pretensions of quality and artistry - that's the ONLY porn that matters. Well, that and Raven Riley and Liz Vicious together, that's good too. Google if you don't believe me.
I support real breats (like a bra, I suppose) by Smerdyakov	Jun 8th, 2008 10:57:58 AM
Maggie Gyllenhaal rings my chimes way more than Julie Strain.
Breats vs. Beasts by Napoleon Park	Jun 8th, 2008 05:32:38 PM
the slapdown of the stupid typos. and Maggie Gyllenhaal was awesome in "Secretary". I only get basic cable but a few higher advanced basic channels leak through. I used to get Oxygen betwork but after they aired "Secretary" enough people complainled that Comcast had to fix that little problem. (More recently they did the same over the adult lauguage on G4.)
433 by MonkeyAngst	Jun 9th, 2008 04:26:53 PM
Yeah, I just watched the pilot, and was floored to see the Drafthouse South there. I can't believe they paid all that money to recreate it brick-by-brick in the Chicago suburbs where the show is set. :) It did kinda sit wrong with me though, since I know that Drafthouse is only about five(?) years old, and looks nothing like a 70s movie theater (as best I can remember from my childhood, anyway). I recall multiplexes being pretty rare back then...
multiplexus by Napoleon Park	Jun 11th, 2008 04:09:18 AM
the studio 28 on 28th street in Wyomeing, a suburb of Grand Rapids Michigan was a two-theater construction as far back as the late '60s when it was built. the big theatre and the "little studio" which was basically the forerunner of what most modern theatres are like now. I'm sure that by 1977 "the Movies Ar Woodland" was a six-screen bulding - that's where I saw Star Wars. Things kept getting larger - they tore down the Beltline Drive-In next to the Studio 28 aand expanded the buillding and the parking lot to fill up the entire space. Last I heard it actually has 28 screens in several wings of a mall-like building and briefly laid claim to being the world's largest indoor theatre.

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