I watched the second episode of SwingTown last night and I have to say I’m starting to get into it. That characters interest me. And I can relate them in some way (no, I’ve never been a swinger, but I can relate to dealing with the pressures that society puts on a person to follow what it believes is the moral\/ethical way to live).<\/p>\n
I like that the way they’re exploring that in the show. How at once they’re enjoying things, but at the same time seem to be hating themselves for allowing themselves to enjoy it. I like how the most uptight of the bunch (who is practically disowning her best friend over her merely attending a swingers party) is actually the one having fantasies about participating.<\/p>\n
It’s like the old stereotype of the most vocal homophobe actually possessing homosexual tendencies.<\/p>\n
Anyway, this could be a good summer diversion for me. And a lot cheaper than travel! Though, speaking of travel, we do have a few trips lined up. We’re flying down to Virginia to visit Randy’s family for the 4th of July weekend. No more than 4 days later we’ll be flying to San Francisco for a week. In August we’ve got 4 or 5 days planned up in Maine at Acadia National Park. A few weeks after that we’ll be heading to Ptown for a long weekend (though, I suspect we’ll snag a long weekend down on the Cape at some other point in the summer, too).<\/p>\n
I’m glad we’ll have a DVR to record SwingTown while we’re away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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