Showtime renews Polyamory series for a second season
Variety
After months of waiting, and after months of vigorous efforts by producer/director Natalia Garcia to recruit additional cast, the Showtime cable channel has just announced that it's renewing last summer's Polyamory: Married and Dating reality docu-series for a second season. From Variety:
Congratulations to Garcia for doggedly pursuing her vision of portraying, explaining, and humanizing polyamory to a wide audience. Whatever you think of the entertainment industry as a whole, her passion for doing this is genuine.
She writes, "I'm very excited to continue enlightening viewers on alternative love styles. We're still working on what Season 2 is going to look like and should know soon. And thanks to everyone who supported this project, especially you Alan."
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Trailer from Season 1, Episode 1:
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Natalia Garcia (second from right) with the San Diego quad from Season 1.
After months of waiting, and after months of vigorous efforts by producer/director Natalia Garcia to recruit additional cast, the Showtime cable channel has just announced that it's renewing last summer's Polyamory: Married and Dating reality docu-series for a second season. From Variety:
Showtime has renewed racy unscripted skeins "Gigolos" and "Polyamory" and will return the shows to its latenight lineup this year.
"Polyamory," which quietly entered the TV space but built buzz online after its debut [ahem! –Ed.], follows people in polyamorous relationships, though it is unclear if season two will feature the same couples featured in the first season. However, in the fall, one cast member used her blog to call for new polyamorous people to "join" the original cast in the "next chapter" of the show. (At the time of the blog post, the status of "Polyamory's" future had not been determined.)
Congratulations to Garcia for doggedly pursuing her vision of portraying, explaining, and humanizing polyamory to a wide audience. Whatever you think of the entertainment industry as a whole, her passion for doing this is genuine.
She writes, "I'm very excited to continue enlightening viewers on alternative love styles. We're still working on what Season 2 is going to look like and should know soon. And thanks to everyone who supported this project, especially you Alan."
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Trailer from Season 1, Episode 1:
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5 Comments:
Yayyyy!!
I spoke to Natalie on reddit awhile back in the r/poly subreddit. Although I think the thought behind what she is doing is amazing, I think the way in which she is protraying polyamorous people is bad for us as a whole. She is basically telling mainstream society that our lives are all about sex, which, for most of us, I don't think it's quite that simple and easy. I seriously hope season 2 shows less sex and more of the other amazing aspects of leading a polyamorous lifestyle.
I have to disagree that Season 1 portrayed us as "all about sex." The vast majority of what we saw was about emotional and personal relationships, and how the people manage them, and how they interact with the rest of the world (family, friends, etc.) while living outside the traditional couple paradigm.
I think people obsess about the sex because any sex was shown at all. We're not used to seeing it when we see people's romantic relationships, but it's certainly an important part of the relationships. This time we did. The sex scenes were brief and tasteful, and showed the people interacting as people in a way that developed the whole picture -- not gratuitously. (I would say the scenes were R-rated but not NC-17.)
--Alan
Very good news! I loved the show. Like Ashley though I think the sex was overhyped. I want to see the emotional aspect which is very intense. Sex is fine, it just doesn't need to be so predominate.
I liked having a look at the sexual side of poly! It made me see how each person could imteract with every partner differently. As a bi woman in a "standard marriage" it opened my eyes.
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