Also I would love to see the difference between a "70's body" and the body of today it would just be interesting.
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Do you like sex, the seventies and swingers? Swingtown baby.
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Posts: 1813 (06/06/08 4:46 PM) Registered user |
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HaroldBalzaccio |
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Posts: 5933 (06/06/08 7:58 PM) Registered user |
The opening scene was hilarious. Overall the show was pretty good, though I do agree that the central characters should have been a bit more prudish (though
not as inflexible as Icy McOldneighbor). Always wait til the third ep to put out.
Character development was almost nonexistent. I'm assuming there's a reason for that. |
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quietsurvivorfan |
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Posts: 15300 (06/06/08 9:02 PM) Registered user |
I thought this show was strange, what is up with the kids on the show? I didn't quite get what was going on with the girl on the bike and the kid in the
window. Strange show.
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EmmaPeel |
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Posts: 1601 (06/06/08 9:15 PM) |
BillNyeSurvivorGuy wrote:I was thinking about this. The swinger wife has an excellent body, but no fake boobs. She looks right. And the men are muscular, but not one of them has a shaved chest. That's right for the period, too. The hairstyles were accurate, and even down to the plucked thin eyebrows on the women it looked right. I was a young teenager during this period, wearing Dr. Scholl's sandals and long straight hair. And the occasional bit of blue eyeshadow and Dr. Pepper lipgloss. My parents were not stoners or swingers, however. |
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GlamsSlam |
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Posts: 2521 (06/06/08 9:59 PM) Registered User |
Well the "look" is quite accurate.... but yet it lacks the glamorous veneer of say Mad Men which so captures that era magnificantly....
As for the characters/storyline and well the "realism" of the era... COME ON!!! Where is this Swingtown? Between Gaysville and Pleasantown? Where everyone who finds what they need in perfect sync? Jesus my parents were "partiers" and they never did coke, ludes or smoked a joint.. drink like fish yes... they obviously had not gotten the memo that they needed to move out of the 60s...they did however wear "quiana" and drive huge American gas guzzlers with 8 tracks... so they were not totally out of it. I couldn't believe that in the first hour of meeting the hopped up neighbor Grant Show Susan is dropping lude and down with a foursome.. RIGHHT.... Ten minutes earlier she couldn't ask hottie Jack Davenport for some foreplay... and believe me I would have to be hopped up on Gimlets and ludes to do Grant Show over Jackie boy... I think uptight white family will prove to be the most interesting. The impression that the young yuppies of the era (which would be folks like the Clintons and well the Bushes) would be swapping wives and having orgies in the basement is too absurd as we know that they were obviously sexually frustrated yups too busy to fuck anything but the future of our country...and we know Bush was doing lines and Clinton would have loved to have pussy but Hillary had that dick on lockdown.... God knows if she hadn't well...but fucking around like that.. have you people ever met or seen REAL SWINGERS...they are suburbanites that look like rejects from EHarmony. They are not hot.... which is why they swing as they would never get laid.. hot people don't need swinging. |
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Posts: 1178 (06/06/08 10:26 PM) Registered User |
Other than cramming three hours of Molly Parker story arc into one hour, it was pretty good. But the problem is (nothing new here) it's on CBS, and not on
cable. Every goddamn CBS show that I like, they cancel.
They should have had a hook at the end. Grant Show's wife will prove to be the most interesting, I think. |
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NellB |
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Posts: 342 (06/06/08 11:56 PM) Registered User |
I liked all the 70s details. I totally remember those bicentennial fire hydrants. Flashback lol.
But it cut to the chase a little too quickly for me. I'd have preferred the new family on the block to take longer to dive into the whole swinger scene. |
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Phantom Nut Syndrome |
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Posts: 1309 (06/06/08 11:57 PM) Registered user |
I enjoyed it more when it was a movie called "The Ice Storm" directed by Ang Lee and starring Christina Ricci, Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline.
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2old4MTV |
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Posts: 1264 (06/07/08 12:06 AM) Registered user |
70's body = real boobs, giant bush for women. Men were hairy with porn star moustaches.
I'm not sure if I liked it yet or not. I want to see more, but I was diappointed they banged the neighbors so quickly. Can't wait to hear what crazy ex-neighbor has to say about that. I'm going to keep watching, but I'm sure it will be cancelled just after I'm hooked. |
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DonnaRama |
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Posts: 10 (06/07/08 11:29 AM) |
Really, really disappointed in this. I was so looking foward to it, but I thought it sucked.
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PAPAYOKE |
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Posts: 19536 (06/07/08 12:23 PM) Registered user |
Seemed like white women in the 70's were either generally hip-py or wore outfits/bathing suits that emphasized their hips.
Pretty good for a CBS pilot, but I couldn't help but think the entire time that it would've been so much better on cable, premium or ad-supported. |
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Posts: 1723 (06/07/08 2:35 PM) Registered User |
2old4MTV wrote: Crazy ex-neighbor is the best thing about this show! The only way she'll be participating will be if hot, uptight hubby makes her take at least 4
valium with a shot of cherry brandy on the side.
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puffypinkfattwin |
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Posts: 2498 (06/07/08 2:56 PM) Registered User |
70's body for women... much SOFTER. Grant Show's wife is way, way too muscular and sinewy to pull off a 70's low-rider bikini and make it look
authentic.
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BillNyeSurvivorGuy |
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Posts: 1814 (06/07/08 4:15 PM) Registered user |
Very interesting thanks that helps me understand the 70's better.
Yeah, the hot women today are crazy with the fitness with all the pilates and yoga and even more exotic stuff they didn't have much of in the 70's. Which makes them tight with muscle, and that's ok but back in the day women had hips and curves and various "useless" things we would think are totally sloppy today. Like, OMG Britney go to the gym you have... FAT...eek your hips, is that what those are called? they are freaking me out. :P Actually I found this site which shows really well how the body shape has changed in your "perfect" woman of every decade in the 20th century. Check it Female Body Shape of the 20th Century |
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BillNyeSurvivorGuy |
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Posts: 1815 (06/07/08 4:22 PM) Registered user |
Also to QuietSurvivorFan
I KNOW! What was up with the kids storyline? Like there are these 2 boys, possibly gay, I don't know they are looking at porn together, sometimes means they are gay but on the other hand sometimes it means they wanna see boobies, who knows but then there is that whole weird subplot about the girls coming up to the boys and beating the shit out of them, that was freaking weird. I pretty much just knew that there would be BOATLOADS of teenage angst in this show. It's pretty much required with all the naughty swinging going on. This might become annoying as it goes on I don't know. I just don't want to see that scary bitch bully again. 0_0 |
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lazigal |
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Posts: 542 (06/07/08 10:42 PM) Registered User |
BillNye got it right with the fitness reference. Middle age housewifes in the seventies smoked, drank and rolled their hair up in curlers and wore girdles. A
"crunch" came from a Cheeto bag and the only pushup a woman could do was a bra style. A classic example of the 70's body is the beach scene
from Jaws. Loads of cellulite and hips and one piece bathing suits.
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sandpuppy |
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Posts: 227 (06/07/08 11:26 PM) Registered user |
70's body = real boobs, giant bush for women.Really. I like to know how many real women waxed their private part on this century. I think people are watching way too much porn to think it's a norm for every women to wax their private part. |
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Posts: 2654 (06/08/08 12:53 AM) Registered user |
^ I'd like to see some stats on that too, sandpuppy.
What was up with the kids storyline?I think the presence of the kids in this show, and other shows/movies dealing with the sexual wildness of the 70's (Ice Storm, Together, etc.), has a few purposes. The kids serve as innocents who are witness to the wild behavior of the adults, much as we the audience are. I also suspect the creators/writers of the show may have been about the age of the kids, and therefore the kids' probable confusion and fascination and discomfort with the swinging culture is a good way into the story. The neighborly activities are bound to warp the young 'uns. |
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Posts: 7400 (06/08/08 8:40 AM) The Real American Psycho |
Meh. That's my overall opinion.
Ice Storm pretty much covered it, or rent Bob and Ted and Carol and Alice. |
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SuitSnob |
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Posts: 8075 (06/09/08 9:07 PM) Registered User |
Meh too. I will give it one more chance because I like the ex-neighbor and Dad looks hot in his three-piece suits.
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