Swingtown: Season 1

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CBS | Season Premiere Date: June 5, 2008

Starring: Josh Hopkins, Lana Parrilla, Grant Show

Summary: CBS attempts to turn up the heat with a drama about three couples in suburban Chicago who experience the cultural revolution of the 1970s.

Creator: Mike Kelley

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E13. Take It to the Limit
Air Date: September 5, 2008
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S1:E12. Surprise
Air Date: August 29, 2008
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S1:E11. Get Down Tonight
Air Date: August 15, 2008

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James Poniewozik

It's also, judging by the pilot, flawlessly art-directed, full of well-chosen period music and--for a drama about a country searching for its bearings in its bicentennial year--a lot of fun. Read full review

Tom Shales

It's rather a bold, retro step for CBS to attempt this kind of show in the era of reality television and domestic fights that appear to be actual and spontaneous rather than cooked up by a writer. But the airwaves are so choked with reality that a return to fantasy seems strangely refreshing and, ironically, even more realistic. Read full review

Alessandra Stanley

Swingtown has ’70s mystique, but not much mystery. Read full review

Linda Stasi

Swingtown could have been great. Instead it's a hit-you-over-the-head production--with product placement and wardrobe so obvious it begs us to scream, "That's so authentic!"--best forgotten. Read full review

Dorothy Rabinowitz

It has one thing going for it--the essential thing. That is, deft writing that yields the kind of suspense that causes people to want to know what comes next. That's no small achievement for a series whose characters are so entirely devoid of, yes, character--or anything resembling an interesting thought. Read full review

Heather Havrilesky

Basically, the whole thing is stylish and '70s-sexy but also shallow enough to feel like a less funny, hollowed-out combination of "The Wonder Years" and "Boogie Nights." Read full review

Glenn Garvin

Kelley's compulsive fascination with erratic eroticism turns everything in Swingtown into hypersexualized sleaze. Read full review

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EjHemedes

Oct 27, 2009

Swingtown is the best TV has seen in quite some time. From material, casting, acting, everything was first class from top to bottom. Sexual tension was high all throughout without too much nudity. This show does not deserve to be cancelled.