Guest post: Review of ABC’s Cougar Town

By: Liberty Kontranowski
Don’t let the name Cougar Town scare you away. This fabulously witty ABC show is not just about old grandmas chasing down teenage love interests and shouting about it from the rooftops. It’s about so much more. Friendship, wacky relationships and finding oneself in the midst of a jumbled world are all central plot themes. We can all relate to those, right?

In the show, Jules Cobb is the main character (played brilliantly by Courteney Cox of Friends and Dirt fame.) Jules is freshly divorced, though her down-on-his-luck ex-hubby, Bobby, is a constant fixture at her house. She has a teenage son, Travis, with whom she has a very open and gray-area relationship with, and a couple of best friends whose sole source of fun is to duke it out with each other over Jules’ affections.


Add in her hottie singleton neighbor, Grayson, with whom constant barbs and personal jabs are the norm and you’ve got one lively neighborhood. And despite all of their dysfunctionality, the crew meets up at Jules’ house with such regularity, you’d think her kitchen was the local java joint where they all surf the web and read the Viamedic blog together every day.

Now, while Jules dabbles in sexcapades and frivolous relationships with fresh, young Floridian meat, she also has her eye on Grayson, who kind of digs her back. Except neither of them will admit it. She embraces her singleness one minute and laments it the next. It’s that push and pull feeling most of us encounter at some point in our lives, only for most of us, our lives aren’t nearly as funny, glamorous or well-cast.

The laughs come often and plenty in this show. The writers did a great job giving each of the characters distinct personalities (and quirks!) and the actors are so convincing, you’d swear you know these people on a personal level.


Whether it’s Ellie and Laurie (Jules’ besties) bearing their claws to each other, Ellie and hubby Andy exchanging snippets about their somewhat mechanical sex life or Travis’ embarrassment over the fact that his dad cuts the lawn at his school for a living and his mom brings home random guys only a few years older than he, each episode is bursting with plot advancement and side-splitting one-liners. It’s a great show to unload the day’s stressors with.


With characters that are so varied in age and many different relationship combos to explore, there seems to be a plethora of avenues this show can travel down. I, for one, am super excited to see what the writers do next. If you haven’t given Cougar Town a chance yet, you really must. It won’t be a waste of your time, I promise (so long as you have a sense of humor, that is.) Warning, though: there is some strong sexual language and connotation to this show, and you’re sure to hear and expletive or two in nearly every episode, so this is not something you want to watch with the whole fam. Make it your time to get away and have a good laugh solo or with some pals. And laugh you will.

For more info on the show, including a cast list and full-length episodes, visit Cougar Town’s official website. Drop us a comment here to let us know what you think of the show and any predictions you may have for future episodes and seasons. Enjoy!


Liberty Kontranowski is a freelance writer and blogger with hundreds of health, sex and lifestyle articles published online and print. She contributes health articles to Viamedic, a safe and secure online drugstore. 

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