Polly & Marie

It seems like just last month I was lamenting the lack of positive poly role models in society. Well, society may soon get a couple of new role models in the forms of Scott and Rebecca McCaw, the polyamorous couple in a new television show that is being shopped around for the small screen. The trailer (http://www.pollyandmarie.com/General/) and following blurb arrived in my inbox this morning, and I am very excited!

“Polly & Marie is a scripted half-hour dramedy revolving around the love lives of a 30 something interracial, polyamorous couple, Scott and Rebecca McCaw, who have agreed to open up their marriage to see other people, and the sexual and relationship high jinx of their fellow alternative life styled friends and neighbors: Bartholomew and Ernesto, a monogamous gay couple, one of whom, is still closeted to his family, and the frustrated, single, sexy, and celibate lipstick lesbian, Faith, who is the surrogate mother to the gay couple's son. Also featured are: Kevin, a gospel hip hop Recording Artist, who happens to be Rebecca's brother, Bell, a serial monogamist who is widow to seven husbands and may lose the eighth at any moment and Judge Eve Landers, a well-known, conservative Federal Court Judge (Rebecca's Mother).”

For more information and pictures of the cast, you can go to show’s MySpace page (http://myspace.com/pollyandmarie) and become a friend. While you are at it, sign the guest book (http://www.pollyandmarie.com/Guestbook/) to show your interest in having Polly & Marie aired on television. Better yet, tell all your friends about it and convince them to watch the trailer. It’s a delicious one minute and ten second clip that makes you want more!

The show claims to be “Sex and the City meets Will and Grace.” Considering those are two of the most popular television shows of all time (and two of my favorites!), this may be the best potential vehicle for bring polyamory to prime time television. The cast includes such hotties as Victoria Rowell as Rebecca (Young and the Restless, Dumb and Dumber), Natalie Raitano as Faith (V.I.P., Martial Law) and relative newcomer Dimitri Lekkos as Rebecca’s handsome hedonist husband, Scott.

This is one of those times when the poly community has the potential to influence mainstream entertainment and society by encouraging producers to air Polly & Marie on their networks. There has never been a show like this before. Putting Polly & Marie on TV will make polyamory a water cooler discussion around the nation and maybe, if we’re lucky, begin to bring acceptance and support to the poly community!

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