I just finished watching "Swingtown: The Pilot" four weeks after it aired. The '70s setting intrigued me from the start along with all the free love and music that came with it. I'm surprised IMDb didn't also mention a couple of songs that played here as anachronisms: both Rita Coolidge's "Your Love is Lifting Me (Higher and Higher)" and Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" came out the summer after the '76 one depicted here. While the three adult couples were the main focus, I was more intrigued by their teen offspring. There's also a woman who snorts coke and her daughter who is planning to run away. It took a while during the hour but by the end I was hooked. Bottom line, I liked this pilot episode of "Swingtown". I don't really feel like recapping here but I may when I watch the second episode so until then... P.S. CBS showed their old network promo of "Turn Us On, We'll Turn You On" before the program which was obviously a double entendre meant to raise a giggle though that slogan actually came from 1978.
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