Swingtown - Go Your Own Way

How can you go wrong with a Fleetwood Mac song as the title of an episode?

This show is really growing on me, as are the characters. The season premiere was stupid...honestly...but the show has slowing been developing the actors into believable and likable characters. The 70's were a time of HUGE social change, and this show has deftly delved into it. Women were starting to demand a voice and were starting to be heard. At the same time it was a very confusing time for both men and women as they navigated their way around their larger "roles" in society, and their more intimate "roles" within their own marriages.

I'd like to see this show given a bit longer to grab an audience!

Swingtown - Is Anybody Watching?

Has anybody been watching this show?

I have recorded it (Thu 10/9C CBS) and watched it each week primarily because it takes place in Winnetka, IL in a rather affluent suburb of Chicago. So, close to home.

Here is how the show describes itself:

SWINGTOWN, from the director of "Big Love" and "Rome," traces two generations of friends and neighbors as they forge intimate connections and explore new freedoms during the culturally transformative decade of the 1970s. It portrays the ever-shifting “swing” of the pendulum that reflected the change in America's collective value system -- morally, politically and socially.

After moving to an upscale lakeside Chicago suburb in July of 1976, Susan and Bruce Miller must confront temptation in the form of their provocative new neighbors, Tom and Trina Decker, while not abandoning their old friends Janet and Roger Thompson. As the adult couples evaluate whether to embrace or avoid newfound personal freedoms, the curious Miller and Thompson children begin to discover and assert their own morality and sexual identities as they come of age in a world on the precipice of change.

In a shifting social climate -- defined by its music, fashion and style -- everyone in SWINGTOWN is confronted with personal choices, experimentation and varying attitudes.

Swingtown won it's timeslot this past week, but their numbers have been dwindling each week. I see this show not making it at this rate, and I'm not really sure if I care? I was hoping for a "Mad Men-esque" look at the 70's but they haven't delivered...so far. The show has improved each week, so they are getting closer...

I think it's worth a recording to take a look!