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Swingtown on CBS

 

Set to a soundtrack of disco tunes and orgiastic groans, the June 5th series premiere of Swingtown (10:00 p.m. ET), has earned the title of Worst TV Show of The Week.

 

In the premiere of Swingtown, which takes place in the Chicago suburbs on July 4th 1976, Bruce and Susan Miller realize the American dream of trading up to a bigger house, a better life and sex with attractive neighbors.

 

The episode opened with a scene suggestive of a woman performing oral sex on a man.  From there, viewers are given a glimpse into the Decker’s bedroom, where Tom and Trina are shown in bed with a young flight attendant.  Other scenes depicted teens smoking marijuana, a woman cutting cocaine and rubbing the drug into her gums, a party guest taking Quaaludes, and an orgy involving multiple couples.

 

According to Swingtown, married couples in the 1970s can be clearly divided into three categories: the squares, the swingers and everyone in between. In this arrangement, frigid squares scrub dirty ovens while swingers host festive orgies in their basement play room. Meanwhile, in-betweeners, like the Millers, attempt to fill suburban ennui by joining their swinging neighbors for a bout of sexual experimentation. Satisfied smiles seem to indicate that all they needed to solve their problems is a four-way with the neighbors.

 

Swingers listen to The Commodores and are happier, healthier and own matching running shorts. Squares listen to The Captain and Tenille and are sexually repressed with weak-willed husbands and frigid wives.

 

For its graphic sexual depictions, Swingtown deserves the title Worst TV Show of The Week.

 


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