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Swingtown Celebrates the Sex (and Realism) of the '70s
Bursting with sex drugs sex open collars sex Farrah hair and sex the sure-to-be controversial Swingtown evokes the milieu of the Me Decade with a refreshing lack of retro camp We really wanted to make it feel like it was a lived-in 70s explains executive producer Alan PoulIn keeping with that claimed verisimilitude couples swap partners like theyre recipes no pair more enthusiastically than Grant Show and Lana Parrillas Tom and Trina Decker Molly Parker and Jack Davenport join in the debauchery as their curious new friends Susan and Bruce Miller whose previous neighbors were the straitlaced Thompsons Josh Hopkins Miriam Shor What keeps the show alive is not the titillation Poul says Its about three marriages that [each] have a different set of rules All were trying to do is be true to the times GJ Donnelly
Bursting with sex, drugs, sex, open collars, sex, Farrah hair and sex, the sure-to-be controversial
Swingtown evokes the milieu of the Me Decade with a refreshing lack of retro camp. "We really wanted to make it feel like it was a lived-in '70s," explains executive producer
Alan Poul.
In keeping with that claimed verisimilitude, couples swap partners like they're recipes, no pair more enthusiastically than
Grant Show and
Lana Parrilla's Tom and Trina Decker.
Molly Parker and
Jack Davenport join in the debauchery as their curious new friends Susan and Bruce Miller, whose previous neighbors were the straitlaced Thompsons (
Josh Hopkins,
Miriam Shor). "What keeps the show alive is not the titillation," Poul says. "It's about three marriages that [each] have a different set of rules. All we're trying to do is be true to the times." -
G.J. Donnelly