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  • NBC
  • Mar 24, 2020
  • NBC
  • Mar 24, 2020

Summary After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Scott Perry (Tom Everett Scott) and his wife Robin (Sarah Wayne Callies) asked his best friend Anthony Lavelle (Clive Standen); his AA sponsor, Larry Mills (Michael O’Neill); and Dr. Oliver Post (J. August Richards), his surgeon and wife's best friend, to be the father figures for their kids...

Created By: Tony Phelan, Joan Rater

  • NBC
  • Mar 24, 2020
  • NBC
  • Mar 24, 2020
Council Of Dads
Season 1
Season Premiere: Mar 24, 2020
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
58
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Scott Perry (Tom Everett Scott) and his wife Robin (Sarah Wayne Callies) asked his best friend Anthony Lavelle (Clive Standen); his AA sponsor, Larry Mills (Michael O’Neill); and Dr. Oliver Post (J. August Richards), his surgeon and wife's best friend, to be the father figures for their kids...

Created By: Tony Phelan, Joan Rater

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Mar 24, 2020 • 42 m
Pilot
Episode 2 • Apr 30, 2020
I'm Not Fine
Robin grapples with how a "council of dads" could really function in their day-to-day lives as Larry takes on his responsibilities with passion; Luly has an unexpected meeting with her birth mom and learns about her early life with Scott.
Episode 3 • May 7, 2020
Who Do You Wanna Be?
Larry presents an offer to Robin that will impact the future of the Crab Shack; Luly digs deep into personal experiences to make an impression in her writing group; Evan contemplates a return to school; Oliver makes strides with Theo.
Episode 4 • May 14, 2020
The Sixth Stage
Robin contemplates romantic life after Scott; Luly and Evan make a risky investment with their loan money; Anthony prepares for the transition of the Crab Shack and develops a surprising friendship; Larry confronts his past failures.
Episode 5 • May 28, 2020
Tradition!
The family and the Council of Dads continue to struggle over Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Robin starts to develop a relationship with Sam.
Episode 6 • Jun 4, 2020
Heart Medicine
The Perry family and the Council all come together when Charlotte needs emergency heart surgery.
Episode 7 • Jun 11, 2020
The Best Laid Plans
Episode 8 • Jun 18, 2020
Dear Dad
The council tells Luly a shocking truth. Oliver and Peter decide on adopting but learn sobering facts about the birth mother. Robin finds herself failing for Sam despite her chaotic life.
Episode 9 • Jun 25, 2020
Stormy Weather
Luly deals with the aftermath of her blog being published. She helps Larry reach out to help his estranged daughter and granddaughter during the story. The Perry family heads for higher ground before the storm.
Episode 10 • Jul 2, 2020
Fight or Flight
Anthony arrives just in time to save Robin and Theo. Oliver's medical skills are tested when Sage goes in to early labor. The hurricane threatens the future of the Crab Shack.

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Metascore
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85
Apr 30, 2020
The stories are relatable and the dialogue, if predictably TV-ish at times, gets at big issues about loss and what really matters in life — topics I think we can all relate to a little more closely these days. ... The casting, the dialogue, the pacing, the relentless Windham Hill-quality soundtrack — Council of Dads feels like a fly trap designed to capture as many This Is Us viewers as possible.
By Aaron Barnhart FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 29, 2020
At its core, the family story here works, and mysteries seeded through time are intriguing enough to make staying tuned seem like an appealing proposition. Where “Council of Dads” falters is when it ventures too far onto the outer branches of its premise: The council itself, as an entity, strains plausibility in a way that feels less fantasy-pleasant than, at times, silly. If the show achieves a tighter level of focus deeper into its first season, it may go from “promising” to something more.
By Daniel D'Addario FULL REVIEW

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 User Ratings
3.8
20% Positive
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40% Mixed
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67
Mar 24, 2020
At once wholly predictable and oddly given over to needless twists (three big ones unfold in the pilot’s final act, with varying degrees of success), “Council of Dads” might not be breaking much new ground, but its built on a concept rife with possibilities. Its talented cast is another ace up its sleeve, but even with hour-long episodes to fill, attention will have to be paid to each key character and their (essential only, please) storylines to ensure the show meets its most basic of goals: love and care for what really matters.
By Kate Erbland FULL REVIEW
55
Mar 24, 2020
NBC has been trying to replicate "This is Us" for a couple of seasons, and has found bottling that formula difficult to master. It comes a little closer than most with Council of Dads, an emotional concept that exhausts so much ground in the premiere it's difficult to foresee where it goes thereafter.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
40
May 1, 2020
Council of Dads isn’t as ridiculous as some of the other This Is Us rip-offs we’ve seen in the past few years, but its also not all that good of a show, either.
By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW
30
Mar 23, 2020
[Council of Dads], which is factory-made to trigger an emotional response, actually fails to connect with viewers on an emotional level because it summarizes what could have been an entire season of story in 42 minutes and then asks us to care about people we barely know.
By Kaitlin Thomas FULL REVIEW
30
Mar 8, 2020
New NBC drama is an obvious rip-off of This Is Us, but without any real heart.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW
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