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    Country
    Runtime 22 min
    Premiere: World January 5, 2009
    Premiere: USA September 24, 2008
    Channel CBS (20:30, United States)
    Digital: World September 13, 2013
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    Description

    Newly divorced after fifteen years of marriage, Gary Brooks, a painting contractor, strives to balance work, shared custody of his two children, a controlling ex-wife, and his foxy new girlfriend.
    2 seasons, 37 episodes 13 hr 34 min
    s1: e1 — Season 1, Episode 1  

    Gary’s Ex Got Engaged

    September 24, 2008
    s1: e2 — Season 1, Episode 2  

    Gary Gets Boundaries

    October 1, 2008
    s1: e3 — Season 1, Episode 3  

    Gary Marries Off His Ex

    October 8, 2008
    s1: e4 — Season 1, Episode 4  

    Gary Gets His Stuff Back

    October 15, 2008
    s1: e5 — Season 1, Episode 5  

    Gary Breaks Up His Ex-Wife and Girlfriend

    October 22, 2008
    s1: e6 — Season 1, Episode 6  

    Gary Meets the Gang

    November 5, 2008
    s1: e7 — Season 1, Episode 7  

    Gary and Allison’s Restaurant

    November 12, 2008
    s1: e8 — Season 1, Episode 8  

    Gary and Allison Brooks

    November 19, 2008
    s1: e9 — Season 1, Episode 9  

    Gary Gives Thanks

    November 26, 2008
    s1: e10 — Season 1, Episode 10  

    Gary Goes First

    December 10, 2008
    s1: e11 — Season 1, Episode 11  

    Gary Toughens Up Tom

    December 17, 2008
    s1: e12 — Season 1, Episode 12  

    Gary Dates Louise’s Teacher

    January 14, 2009
    s1: e13 — Season 1, Episode 13  

    Gary Moves Back In

    January 21, 2009
    s1: e14 — Season 1, Episode 14  

    Gary and Dennis' Sister

    February 11, 2009
    s1: e15 — Season 1, Episode 15  

    Gary’s Ex-Brother-in-Law

    February 18, 2009
    s1: e16 — Season 1, Episode 16  

    Gary Uses His Veto

    March 11, 2009
    s1: e17 — Season 1, Episode 17  

    Gary Hooks Up Allison

    March 18, 2009
    s1: e18 — Season 1, Episode 18  

    Gary and the Trophy

    April 8, 2009
    s1: e19 — Season 1, Episode 19  

    Gary and His Half Brother

    May 6, 2009
    s1: e20 — Season 1, Episode 20  

    Gary Fixes Allison’s Garbage Disposal

    May 20, 2009

    Сast and Crew

    Premise

    The series centers around the life of Gary Brooks (Jay Mohr) and begins three months after he and his ex-wife, Allison Brooks (Paula Marshall), officially divorce. Gary owns a house painting business and bought his own place after his divorce. Now his life revolves around trying to move on from his marriage and get back out into the dating scene while constantly having to deal with his ex-wife because they have two children together.

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    Critique: 13

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    Gary’s uneven because it doesn’t feel like a sitcom working for Mohr, but Mohr working for a sitcom.

    Mohr knows how to deliver a sarcastic one-liner, the pilot has a few laughs and the characters are all likable. But despite modern refere...

    The performances, in and of themselves, range from solid (King’s) to inspired (Marshall’s)…But taken together, there is both too much a...

    Mostly, though, Gary trades insults with his ex-wife (Paula Marshall, who really needs to stop jumping into the sack with uninspired series) and st...

    While they’re entertaining together, the show needs other characters to avoid becoming just an endless exchange of the snarky things TV write...

    This sitcom may elicit a few laughs, but the premiere episode is pretty lackluster overall, with obvious punchlines and predictable characteri...

    On the up side, some of the one-liners are quite funny. On the downside, a lot of the show just doesn’t work no matter how hard Mohr works it.

    Ed Begley Jr shows a light touch as the ex-couple’s counselor, and not every joke on Gary Unmarried falls flat. But this show hinges on one’s...

    The show is funny enough, and the performers and setup are solid enough to hope CBS will give this working-class comedy a little time to work.

    This is the kind of dull-witted, over-laugh-tracked, artificial sitcom that makes you wonder if the Hollywood honchos ever got the memo about the 2...

    Gary is a throwback to a time when laugh tracks were provided by evidently demented studio audiences; when one-liners were stoked with double enten...

    Despite its 1980s ambiance, you can’t simply dismiss the show. It has some genuinely funny lines, though it’s not clear who to tha...

    There are errant laughs floating around, but for the most part Gary Unmarried is Gary Unfunny.

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