My Review: “Cougar Town”
Cougar Town, the new Courteney Cox comedy premiered last night on ABC. I had high hopes for this show, seeing as how Courteney’s last venture Dirt was rightfully cancelled by FX (it was TERRIBLE) and Courteney deserves a break. I actually really like Courteney Cox. She was one of my favorite Friends, and I’ve enjoyed many of her movies over the years. But to get right to the point – Cougar Town SUCKS. I think if I were to sum the show up in one word, I would use awkward. It’s just weird and awkward, and completely unfunny.
The show opens with Courteney Cox examing her naked body in the mirror, exlaiming “what is that!” when staring at her extra elbow skin. This gave me my one and ONLY laugh during the 30 minute show. Courteney Cox plays Jules the lonely, divorced, aging mother of a teenage boy (who was the only enjoyable character in the whole show), who fears she has lost her sex appeal.
When her hot neighbor, (who beds a new, young woman every night) tells Courteney Cox she could never “catch a young thang” if she tried – Jules decides she’s going to prove him wrong – and “go for it”. She heads to a bar with the annoying Busy Phillipps (man, I just don’t like her) and acts like a complete moron in the bar. If older women are this clueless – then just shoot me now, and put me out of my misery.
She snags a “young thang” that was, indeed hot, and he ends up back at her place. Again – more awkwardness ensues. Her teenage son, Travis (played by Dan Byrd) walks in on Courteney Cox going down on her young man. It was WEIRD! It’s just not funny! I think having your son walking in on you giving a BJ is just NOT funny, and doesn’t belong on TV.
I just hated this show. I’ll probably watch it again – just to see if they can make something of it, but the bottom line is the show was bad. It was awkward and weird, and just not funny. I feel bad for Courteney Cox – I was really hoping this show was going to be good.
Did you watch it? What did you think?
Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 8:08am
Filed under ABC, Courteney Cox | 18 Comments »
September 24th, 2009 at 9:02 am
I didn’t even need to watch the show and I knew it would be bad. Thanks for saving me the time (not that I would watch it anyway.) I like The Cox too, she’s a hottie. The problem with “Cougar Town” is that its trying to jump on this pop culture phenom that is “the cougar” but its really overused and annoying at this point. Plus I think its on its way out.
September 24th, 2009 at 10:21 am
I thought it was pretty good actually. I loved the whole BJ scene. Is it just me? LOL. The deliberate awkward scenes just enhance how very new she is to the Cougar Life. Courtney seemed really sure of her character unlike some other new TV SHOWS that started this week… I won’t name names that would just be mean!
September 24th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I actually liked it..in fact even my dad and brother watched the show too and they were busting up laughing the whole time.. Maybe you just didn’t get the whole akward thing….but that’s how it was suppose to be..
September 24th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
I thought it was hysterical!!! Maybe because it hits close to home and I know too many cougars
September 24th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I liked it, I thought it was really funny
September 24th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I couldnt agree with you more. You summed it all uo-Weird, awkward, not funny, and its gross that a mom talks about licking her sons schoolmates bodies. My husband and I both kept looking at each other thinking OMG this sux. Plus its so unbelieveable, because anyone of the men charactors in this show would have sex with her in a minute. Except the son of course. DUH. Remember Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore? He even had sex with the old old neighbor woman (like 60-70) LOL) ITS NOT that SCARY being a single 40 year old woman, really. Especially if you GOT GAME, geesh!
September 25th, 2009 at 3:17 am
You didn’t find it funny because you can’t relate. I am 36 and divorced with three children and dating a 23 year old so I can relate! It is FUNNY!
September 25th, 2009 at 5:31 am
I couldn’t DISagree more. I went into this show after Modern Family expecting to just watch maybe to the first commercial, but I was pleasantly surprised at how funny Courtney Cox was and it had me hooked the whole way through. Busy Phillips was refreshing, I thought – not your typical sitcom’ish best friend actor. Yeah it might not be that realistic, but this is just tv – who cares! It’s FUNNY! I really thought it was hysterical. I’ll watch it again for sure.
September 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
i agree. not funny at all! i thought it was one of the most lewd, disgusting shows on the air. i’m very surprised with abc and courtney cox. do our teenagers really needed to be exposed to more immoral, offense behavior?
September 25th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Don\’t know whats wrong with most of you… but the show is insanely funny!! I didn\’t expect to like it but I couldn\’t stop watching it! Courtney is awesome in this role and I cant wait for the next episode!
September 27th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Disgusting, vulgar, moraleless, pornographic. I turned it off after she had sex 3X with a guy whose name she couldn’t remember & the BJ incident, about halfway through. Never again. ABC should be ashamed.
September 29th, 2009 at 8:51 am
It was disgusting. And for the 36 year old on here…with three children…dating a 23 year old…NICE example for your kids. Pathetic.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Cougar Town sucked. It just seemed very desperate to me. Pathetic and NOT funny. She just acts childish, desperate, ignorant….drooling over high school boys, etc. Yeah, not even realy worth my time to type this. It just sucks. Maybe it would have been funny if she was a 40 something single mother who decided to go to return to college. Perhaps then the younger man lust and feeling awkward would be funny and make sense.
February 13th, 2010 at 3:25 am
This show is terrible!! Courtney Cox was awful in Dirt and she is worse in this show. She is loud and arrogant. I cannot stand her harsh ways in her acting. Either be a Total Bitch like in Scream or a Nice girl like in Friends but PLEASE no more “Im trying to be funny over excited crackhead Courtney” The only good part of this show is the son. Great actor. She could learn from him.
No one from friends is a good actor. Jennifer Aniston is too bitter now. She has a bitter side in her face for some time anytime I see her on screen. Matt is fail, so is Ross, Phoeby is a joke and Courtney should seriously put her acting job on hold and go take more lessons. This show is CRASS. TRASH. Ew.
April 28th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
I actually just watched an episode. Honest question. Do you have to be fully lobotomized to be a writer for that show or just have an IQ smaller than your shoe size?
I found it hilarious that the editing for that show is faster paced than Star Wars. Seriously, the camera flew around the characters like they were being chased by tie fighters. Its as if they are trying really hard to distract you from crappy plot and annoying as !@#$ characters. Gotta love when all the men are played as bumbling spineless idiots and all the women are overly neurotic and will sleep with anything with a pulse. Seriously, there was a scene with Cox’s character inviting her friends into her sons room to watch him sleep, and hes like 17. That’s borderline psychotic. The last person to have a mother that crazy ended dressing up like her and killing people in the shower (yeah, Hitchcock ain’t got nothing on CT).
And then theres this blond woman who offhandedly tells her boyfriend that she slept with a dude across the room and he should go fight him to impress her – and he stays with her! WHY??!?!? Not only that, it gets worse! After mentioning that she was allergic to latex and birth control AND that she slept around, he brings her to meet his father. SERIOUSLY, I want a hit of whatever the writers are smoking. What does this chick need to do to get rid of this dude, burn down his house, wreck his car, and sodomize his mother live on youtube?
Shakespeare eat your heart out! This is the most original thing I have EVER SEEN, and I watched Private Parts with Howard Stern! This should be immortalized, put on a satellite, and be beamed to every corner of the galaxy as the best our race has to offer. This should win golden globes, nobel prizes, and be entered in as cannon to the Bible itself! We should throw away every copy of the Iliad in existence and replace it with the script for the pilot. Wow these drugs are kickin in
October 20th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
The first couple episodes were a bit disturbing, but the later episodes get better as they stop emphasizing the main characters’ need to get laid so much. I love Christa Miller’s character, Ellie…she’s so hilarious!
February 12th, 2011 at 4:01 pm
I do not think one actor on here is any good. They give performance far under a 4th grade ability, like they are reading cue cards, jokes are random, the son acts older than all of them but he looks a lot like ‘Garfield’ the cat to me, with a few catfish whiskers to boot. And the over acting in facial expressions? Good lord awful! Courtney is no dofferent at all from her Monica character-I haven’t watched sitcoms in years-after 6 episodes of this I see I am missing absolutely nothing. They gat PAID for this, unbelievable. Really.
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