WORLD PREMIERE: Cougar Town
Posted by KAT in Cougar Town, FriendsSeptember 23rd, 2009, 04:13 PM
Oh snap! Cougar Town, that show I’ve been trashing without seeing for the past few months, finally premieres tonight at 9:30 p.m. on ABC.
To refresh your mem, Friends’s Courteney Cox stars as Jules, a divorcée/real estate agent whose neighbor bets she can’t pull in younger men the way he does women. All the while, Cox delivers lines like: “I was 19, I started thinking with my coochie-cooch, and then, bam, I had a kid.” Hilarity ensues!
Gross me out!
I read a few reviews of the show and it seems common consensus is that the problem with the show isn’t Courteney Cox (who we can all agree is a wholly decent comedic actress), but the concept itself. I particularly liked this excerpt from the Los Angeles Times’s review:
This is a real show whose main conceit is that having sex with a younger man is fun and exciting for women over 40. Crude stuff for a family newspaper, but despite the warm-and-fuzzy-celebrity cred that star Courteney Cox brings to it, some funny lines and good acting all around, Cougar Town is a crude show, built on jokes about oral sex and droopy breasts, a show in which words like “coochie” are used with regrettable abandon… Clearly, creators Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel (both previously of Scrubs) are trying to take on some legitimate issues, and no doubt there is pathos and insight to be gleaned from a divorced woman staring down her mid-40s as her child prepares to leave the nest, wondering if this is as good as it is ever going to get. But that is no excuse, and I mean whatsoever, for having that woman look at a shirtless young man and say, “I want to lick him.”
Travis (Dan Byrd of Aliens in America) is Jules‘ teenage son, whose actual adolescence is being preempted by his mother’s second go-round. Jules seems to take pride in her lack of boundaries, giving their relationship an ick factor that even Byrd’s quietly hilarious performance cannot overcome. He does his very best, though, stealing every scene he’s in. “Why don’t you laugh at my jokes?” his mother asks after she cracks one about the fact that, in an attempt to prove her attractiveness, she flashed a neighbor kid. “Because they make me sad,” Travis says, giving voice to us all.
Wow. That is some seriously poignant shizz right there. Let’s all watch Cougar Town tonight and cry.
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September 24th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Next guest star: Betty White.
September 24th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Also, the word “coochie-cooch” just makes me think of the vajay monologues.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I think it is fantastic. Why shouldn’t females enjoy feeling young.
I enjoy females 20 to 45 years younger than I. I seem to draw the line at about 35. As we get older, we seem to be more open regarding age. Since we are older it is our responsibility that the younger person not get hurt emotionally nor relationship wise.
If the younger person can get hurt in any way and will not be better for the experience, pass.