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Cougar Town: Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 23, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
Cougar Town Image
Metascore
50 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 22 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 156 Ratings

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10 out of 10
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  • Summary: Courtney Cox is a recently divorced woman who begins dating again.
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 22
  3. Negative: 7 out of 22
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    80
    This is Cox's best gig since the end of "Friends" and she clearly knows it, attacking the material at full tooth-and-nail.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    60
    The dialogue, timing and jokes have the madcap pace and anarchic spirit of "Scrubs," and it takes a while for Ms. Cox to recalibrate her Monica persona from "Friends."
  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Nancy DeWolf Smith
    30
    Jules will search for self-esteem in frequent sex and the proof that she is still "hot." Such a quest could be made funny, but here it mostly isn't. Ms. Cox is struggling with some ugly material and often seems desperate.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 63
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 63
  3. Negative: 29 out of 63
  1. CoyneFamily
    10
    This show is just fantastic. Get over the name people! It doesn't have anything to do with older women banging out young dudes. It is a show about friendship, family and booze. What else in life is important? Do yourself a favor and invest some time getting to know and appreciate this show. You'll thank me later. JPC… Expand
    • 4 of 4 users said yes
  2. PaulP.
    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 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
    • 0 of 2 users said yes
  3. RichardJ
    2
    Yes, because her behavior will go a long way towards teaching her teen aged son who to respectfully treat his future relationships. What a sorry excuse to pornography.… Expand
    • 1 of 3 users said yes

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