Quick Take: Cougar Town, "Finding Out"
"Jules, in a relationship sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to do. It's part of being a couple." – Grayson
Review: Cougar Town, "Finding Out"
(S0124) On the final episode of Cougar Town's stellar freshman season, we're in the late rounds of the gang finding out about the new Jules-Grayson relationship. Travis (Dan Byrd) and Laurie (Laurie Philipps) are very ho hum about it, so the real fun/panic begins in deciding how to (and more importantly who will) tell Bobby (Brian Van Holt), Jule's ex-husband after all. In true Cougar Town fashion, a round of ultimate penny can is embraced amongst "finalists" Andy, Grayson, and Jules.
"Jules, in a relationship sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to do. It's part of being a couple," Grayson "pontificates" to Jules (Courtney Cox), a line that truly ends up "biting him in the ass" as she predicts. Hilarity does get predicted successfully as well when Ellie (Christa Miller) takes the recording of the line and makes it into a house/club remix. The crazy and funny thing is that it ends up sounding really cool. Cougar Town makes some of the best "original" music on television (everyone remember the "confident with my sexuality" song?). And that's to say nothing of the epic late night Enya, cowboy hat, pop corn and male self-empowerment sessions.
Eventually Jules and Grayson (Josh Hopkins) conspire to get everyone together on the beach, where Bobby enjoys getting buried up to his neck in the sand and therefore cannot do his typical bolting routine when he hears information that he's not simpatico with. The beach montage leading up to the night's campout was a little out of character for its sweetness , but I'm willing to forgive as it’s the season finale and so it had a nice roundup to the characters we've gotten to know over the season kind of flavor to it.
An outstanding first season of Cougar Town can take any number of directions from here. Travis is heading off to college, Jules and Travis are in a new relationship, and Grayson must deal with being the only single one in the gang. I hope that Jules and Grayson coupling up doesn't hurt the show's stellar chemistry, but I think it won't in that the interplay amongst the core cast is so strong. Here's looking forward to more penny canning and bizarre antics and tom foolery continue for a good long while.
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Recap: Cougar Town, "Finding Out"
Jules and Grayson come up with a plan to let Bobby know they are dating.
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