Orange County Local Trying to Harsh My Swingtown Buzz
Some woman who lives down in Trabuco Canyon (closer to Rick Warren's Saddleback Church than I live, though I'm much closer to the TBN Studios near South Coast Plaza and their unpatriotic all-year Christmas lights display) decided to write to Variety and complain about Swingtown, which as you know is the one Summer series I wanna see renewed for Fall.
Cynthia Littleton's blog says:
Barry first heard about "Swingtown" through an item in People magazine. A look back at the era of sex, drugs and spouse-swapping didn't sound like anything that belonged on broadcast TV, in Barry's opinion.
Her instinct was confirmed after she saw a promo spot for the show on CBS. Then she went on the CBS website and watched a trailer "that showed three people in bed together," Barry said. "It definitely really rubbed me wrong."
Just as her outrage over the show was rising, Barry received an email alert about "Swingtown" from One Million Moms, an org run by the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Assn., a pioneering crusader in the culture wars led by the Rev. Donald Wildmon. The alert urged mothers to email complaint letters to CBS and others (including Variety).
Note to Cynthia Littleton, I get letters from strangers all the time and I just delete them and get on with my day. But you chose to write an entire post about it, so I had to, HAD TO respond to my Orange County neighbor.
What I said after the jump. Along with a interview with Grant Show from the show, and "Sebastian.".
And, what I said was ...
I live right up the 405 from this woman (only about five miles) and I felt obligated to tell you that we people of Orange County do indeed know how to change out TV channels, even if this woman doesn't.
She apparently doesn't know where the off switch is, either. And possibly, she thinks it's mandatory to have a television.
Lady, turn it off if you don't like it. Not everything should have to pass your smell test, which evidently was devised in the 1950s.
Just pack your kids into the car, drive over to Saddleback Church or wherever it is that you learn that you are more important than everyone else (including the 8 million others who watched and enjoyed the pilot) and leave us alone.
So there you go.
