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(More customer reviews)Unlike other who will review this DVD collection, I have never seen the show on television. So everything was new for me from the original pilot episode throygh the remaining 23 episodes of the first season. With the commercials excised, each episode lasts about 22 minutes and it's easy to watch three or four at a time. Actually, I found this helpful since this is more of a continuous story line where each episode generally picks up where the previous one ended.
For the newly initiated viewer the show looks like its going to be all sex and body jokes, and that's pretty much what it is for the first five or six episodes. If you've watched Desperate Housewives and found the sexual humor of 40 year old women lusting after young men or their neighbors husband, you'll feel right at home here. In fact, I was not that familiar with Courtney Cox (well, some folks aren't "Friends" alums) and many times she reminded me of Teri Hatcher's character, Susan, in DH.
After five episodes the sex jokes began to get stale and I wondered how a whole season would hold out. But then, about episode six, all the characters who had separate relationships with Jules (Cox's character) met one another and now they became only happy (well, mostly) dysfunctional family. There's even a brief "making of" featurette in the bonuses where the creators discuss this issue. From that point on (the "bonding") the show takes a 90-degree turn and holds your interest - as well as tickles your funny bone.
Women of Jules' age will relate with her frustrations while men will find humor in the guys in the cast, though probably won't relate to them. And this is one of those TV shows that has a killer soundtrack, inserting pop songs at just the right moment.
The bonuses include lots of deleted scenes (but in most cases you can easily see why they were deleted) and a blooper reel. There's a whole series of 2 minute "Ask Barb" videos where the "older than the other women" character, Barb, answers sex questions with risqué answers. And a similar set of videos starring the wacky Bobby Cobb (Cox's divorced husband in the show).
Fans of the show will want this to return to favorite episodes or moments. For others, especially those who want to see how a network show could push the sexually suggestive joke boundary, will find that, if they stick with it, the show will grow on you and keep you entertained.
Steve Ramm
"Anything Phonographic"
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After spending the last seventeen years as a wife and mother, recently divorced Jules (Cox) has reluctantly waded back into the dating pool and quickly finds herself in over her head. Now forty-something and single, Jules tackles real-life issues - dating, parenting and friendship. It doesn't help Jules that her two best friends can hardly stand each other, her ex-husband is hanging around more now than he did during their marriage...and there's that handsome divorced neighbor that Jules can't quite get out of her head.
Created by Kevin Biegel and Bill Lawrence (Scrubs), Cougar Town is packed with laugh-out-loud moments and features a cast of television's brightest comedic stars. Cougar Town: The Complete First Season struts its stuff in this DVD collection, along with exclusive bonus features and one or two special surprises. Cougar Town - it's more than a place, it's a state of mind.
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