Cougar Town “Letting You Go” – Season 1 Episode 21

16 May 2010

I got into this show because it’s quite funny.

The overbearing mom Jules is having great difficulty letting her son Travis go. He’s a senior in high school and so college quickly approaches.

They suffer a great scare in the beginning because a rejection letter comes from his safety school. He’s only got two other choice schools that he’s applied for and they feel this is an ominous sign. Jules starts freaking out even though her ex-husband Bobby tells her to remain calm. That everything’s going to be okay.

In the morning time Jules is a little bit just angry because she feels like her friend Ellie left some wine in her glass. When she opens a high-priced bottled wine she expects it to all be drank up. The actual culprit turns out to be Ellie’s husband Andy. This guy is on the edge of being gay because he wears this lip balm that leaves a little residue like lipstick because he says it makes his eyes pop.

But he is married to Ellie and has a son so he’s got that working in his favor.

Travis tortures his mom a little bit because he does get into the other two colleges. One of the colleges is way out in California and one of the colleges is only 20 minutes away in Sarasota Florida.

Jules attempts to guilt him into going to the close one.

He is wise to the Jedi mind tricks and does not fall for her mind manipulation.

Another thing which makes this show so funny is the weird relationship between Jules and Travis. They are crazy close in a way that would make you uncomfortable but that is one of the things that’s so funny.

One of the manifestations of this weirdness is Jules watches her son sleep. Taking it even a step further she invites her two girlfriends over to also watch her son sleep. They play guessing games and other womanly talking games.

Also on this episode her friend Lauren makes a realization that she loves drama in her relationships. She is thinking about breaking up with her boyfriend because he’s not into drama. But then she decides to give it a chance because she’s never been in a good relationship.

Toward the end of the episode after Jules has dropped Travis off for his college visit she is feeling very lonely. Grayson is there to help her inside and they end up having sex.

They don’t want it to be weird in the morning so we’ll see what happens next week.

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