Cougar Town (2009)

Comedy · Romance

Jules Cobb is a mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter. Along for the journey is her son, her ex-husband, her husband/neighbor and her friends who together make up her dysfunctional, but supportive and caring extended family... even if they have a funny way of showing it sometimes.

IMDb rating: 7.1 (48,250 votes)
Episode average: 7.3 ↑ +0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons: 6
Streaming (US): Hulu
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 6 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2009)

7.27 avg 24 episodes 7.1 → 7.6 28 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.1	667
2	Into the Great Wide Open	7.0	504
3	Don't Do Me Like That	7.1	474
4	I Won't Back Down	7.3	440
5	You Wreck Me	7.1	411
6	A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)	7.2	406
7	Don't Come Around Here No More	7.3	412
8	Two Gunslingers	7.3	393
9	Here Comes My Girl	7.7	394
10	Mystery Man	7.1	383
11	Rhino Skin	7.4	397
12	Scare Easy	7.3	365
13	Stop Dragging My Heart Around	7.2	361
14	All the Wrong Reasons	7.2	355
15	When a Kid Goes Bad	7.3	355
16	What Are You Doin' in My Life?	7.1	363
17	Counting on You	7.2	362
18	Turn This Car Around	7.1	363
19	Everything Man	7.3	359
20	Wake Up Time	7.2	356
21	Letting You Go	7.4	346
22	Feel a Whole Lot Better	7.4	334
23	Breakdown	7.5	330
24	Finding Out	7.6	350

Season 2 (2010)

7.42 avg 22 episodes 7.6 → 7.8 22 min avg

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Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	All Mixed Up	7.6	407
2	Let Yourself Go	7.2	307
3	Makin' Some Noise	7.2	294
4	The Damage You've Done	7.2	297
5	Keeping Me Alive	7.3	289
6	You Don't Know How It Feels	7.5	294
7	Fooled Again: I Don't Like It	7.6	295
8	Little Girl Blues	7.5	282
9	When the Time Comes	7.4	288
10	The Same Old You	7.5	278
11	No Reason to Cry	7.3	272
12	A Thing About You	7.4	274
13	Lost Children	7.4	281
14	Cry to Me	7.3	273
15	Walls	7.5	278
16	Baby's a Rock 'N' Roller	7.1	269
17	You're Gonna Get It!	7.2	269
18	Lonesome Sundown	7.5	265
19	Damaged by Love	7.2	265
20	Free Fallin'	7.5	267
21	Something Good Coming: Part 1	8.0	324
22	Something Good Coming: Part 2	7.8	166

Season 3 (2012)

7.45 avg 15 episodes 7.7 → 7.9 22 min avg

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Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Ain't Love Strange	7.7	300
2	A Mind with a Heart of Its Own	7.3	253
3	Lover's Touch	7.3	246
4	Full Moon Fever	7.3	245
5	A One Story Town	8.1	319
6	Something Big	7.3	246
7	You Can Still Change Your Mind	7.2	238
8	Ways to be Wicked	7.2	230
9	Money Becomes King	7.4	228
10	Southern Accents	7.3	231
11	Down South	7.3	223
12	Square One	7.5	222
13	It'll All Work Out	7.4	227
14	My Life/Your World: Part 1	7.6	221
15	My Life/Your World: Part 2	7.9	254

Season 4 (2013)

7.45 avg 15 episodes 7.1 → 7.5 22 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Blue Sunday	7.1	238
2	I Need to Know	7.3	218
3	Between Two Worlds	7.4	214
4	I Should Have Known It	7.6	222
5	Runnin' Down a Dream	7.4	214
6	Restless	7.4	217
7	Flirting with Time	8.0	235
8	You and I Will Meet Again	7.3	205
9	Make It Better	7.3	201
10	You Tell Me	7.5	219
11	Saving Grace	7.4	222
12	This Old Town	7.5	208
13	The Criminal Kind	7.7	222
14	Don't Fade on Me	7.4	210
15	Have Love Will Travel	7.5	241

Season 5 (2014)

7.34 avg 13 episodes 7.3 → 7.6 21 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	All or Nothing	7.3	219
2	Like a Diamond	8.2	319
3	Depending on You	7.3	202
4	The Trip to Pirate's Cove	7.3	204
5	Hard on Me	7.3	201
6	Learning to Fly	7.2	202
7	Time to Move On	7.3	188
8	Mystery of Love	7.2	188
9	Too Much Ain't Enough	7.1	192
10	Too Good to Be True	7.5	202
11	Refugee	7.0	190
12	Love Is a Long Road	7.1	192
13	We Stand a Chance	7.6	206

Season 6 (2015)

7.12 avg 13 episodes 7.0 → 8.5 21 min avg

Big finale

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	American Dream Plan B	7.0	210
2	Full Grown Boy	7.0	197
3	To Find a Friend	6.9	190
4	Waiting for Tonight	6.8	188
5	Even the Losers	6.9	187
6	The Wrong Thing to Do	7.0	183
7	The Wild One, Forever	6.8	182
8	This One's for Me	6.8	181
9	Two Men Talking	7.1	178
10	Yer So Bad	7.2	187
11	Climb That Hill	7.1	179
12	A Two Story Town	7.5	201
13	Mary Jane's Last Dance	8.5	329