So, Swingtown, What Did You Think? I Likee!

Yeah, I know, I'm stealing I likee from the kid on the Andy Richter series previous to the most recent Andy Richter series, but I like saying "I likee."

I liked it. A lot. Here's some reaction from around the web ...

From Ten Pounds of Awesome in a Five Pound Bag:

The idea of a couple of middle-middle classers climbing the social ladder, trying to fit in with the upper-middle classers, acting the way that they act, trying what they try, doing (uh, no pun intended) what they do. And their middle-middle class friends watching on the sidelines in horror. Please, don't let this turn out like Tell Me You Love Me: filled with promise, but ending up too depressing, with few likeable characters. We had DVR'd a bunch of the episodes of that show, and, truth be told, I wasn't that crushed when our DVR died and I missed them. I saw a write up of the finale, and that was ok.

The other thing that I found great were the costumes and sets. True to form, picking up on all of the things that showed the little things in life in the '70s, without making it campy or goofy, like That '70s Show any Will Ferrell movie. Everyone smoking (on airplanes!), the bad wallpaper, a single corded phone, no one wearing seatbelts, kids without helmets on bikes, and, of course, Tab. I don't know what it is - I don't go for period pieces, but when a show or a movie brings to life the little bits of life during a time frame, it makes it far more entertaining for me.

From Mama Flo's Place:

I think the initial reason I was so curious was because when I was growing up the Hush-Hush series was Peyton Place. I never got to watch it, we were shuttled off to bed and my folks watched it in a room where the door was locked. Imagine that, imagine what was so risqué in the 60's that people watched it in locked rooms. OMG, can you imagine what our parents would have thought about a series like Swingtown.

I for one thought Swingtown has potential as long as they don't let the kids parts take a main control of the storyline. Loved the music, it was our music, I could sing and dance with every tune played.