Cougar Town

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC , TBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 23, 2009
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 203 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 120 out of 203
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 203
  3. Negative: 56 out of 203
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  1. lomomolo
    Mar 2, 2011
    6
    I think this is difficult series to get into. The Pilot is awful! It's very shallow, promotes negative values and starts being quite demeaning to women... but it does get better. Each character will eventually find her/his voice and the one liners become funnier. Season 2 is much better.
  2. MikeG.
    Oct 1, 2009
    4
    I only caught the pilot, but this show seems more mean spirited than funny. Any show with the talented Courtney Cox is going to have its moments, but the bitter undercurrents here would be better suited to an hour long drama and not what at times is a broad comedy.
  3. PaulP.
    Sep 23, 2009
    5
    This features two quite appealing comic veterans - Courtney Cox with some assistance from Christa Miller - but, if the scripts don't improve, it's likely it will just be a forgotten blotch on both their reusmes. It's the "New Adventures of Old Christine" with even less subtlety. The first half was almost all rapid fire dialogue, which doesn't work because the show This features two quite appealing comic veterans - Courtney Cox with some assistance from Christa Miller - but, if the scripts don't improve, it's likely it will just be a forgotten blotch on both their reusmes. It's the "New Adventures of Old Christine" with even less subtlety. The first half was almost all rapid fire dialogue, which doesn't work because the show lacks the edge to make rapid fire make sense. It's obviously just a phony script that says "line, line, line, bizarre situation, line, embarassing situation, line, line, sex scene, line, embarassing situation, lne, etc.... Just to make sure you understand that it's Contrived Scriptwriting 101, Cox even gets a shot speech. A speech! For Cox's sake, I hope it becomes funny. But it ain't, yet.… Expand
  4. TanyaH.
    Oct 1, 2009
    6
    I didn't think it was bad, not great, but not bad. Some of us don't have the money to pay for HBO, Showtime etc so we only have so many choices. And I'd much rather watch Cougartown and laugh than all the scripted "reality" shows.

Awards & Rankings

85
#85 Best TV Season of 2009
14
#14 Most Discussed TV Season of 2009
39
#39 Most Shared TV Season of 2009

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Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 23
  3. Negative: 7 out of 23
  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Alasdair Wilkins
    Jan 6, 2014
    75
    Five seasons in, Cougar Town may not have many new points to make about its characters, but those viewers already convinced of the show’s charms will find the show as amusing and entertaining as ever.
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  2. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Dec 15, 2010
    63
    What we have is a light, fast show about friends and couples who hang together, banter together and drink together. [8 Nov 2010, p.40]
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
    50
    This is a story of desperation, not liberation. Cox is too good for this.
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