Sign In. Director Claire Scanlon. Emily Kapnek Andrew Guest. Top credits Director Claire Scanlon. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Add Image. Top cast Edit. Lee Garlington Dorothy as Dorothy. Maestro Harrell Malik as Malik.

This is also a really good family show to watch with your kids, but be careful because some of the things they do in this show are not for kids between the age of I fell in love with this show since the pilot. I love how the show puts all the mom's as dumb blondes and trying to act cool for their kids because I do suppose some mom's do that in reailty.

The men are so stupid in this show, but their also hilarious. The men in the show don't get the women code so they just get them handbags, clothes, shoes, and lets not forget money. The women in this show are so crazy. They take control over their daughters and sons and try to make them do things they hate like wearing outfits to school that will make them get teased. Teasa Altman hates her life because she to move her fabulous life in New York City and to move to the stinky life in the suburbs.

Tesa had to move here because her father George Altman played by Jeremy Sisto found condoms in her drawers and decided to move to the best place to raise kids which is the suburbs. The popular girls at Tesa's school are so dumb that you might think that blonde is the true dumb color. They play their parts well, that you might think they act like that in reality. This is so far the best new comdey of the fall besides New Girl. The script is also decent, it's not the best but it goes along with the plot.

I love how this show makes fun of the suburbs by showing women always watering their lawn and planting their beautiful flowers, it makes me crack up every time they show it. So far this show is amazing, the Thanksgiving epiosde was laugh out loud and I hope they countine the amazing story lines because Suburgatory has done an awesome job making me laugh and hopefully it's making other people laugh. Watch this show! Details Edit. Release date September 28, United States. Fred also called it "George's failed marriage".

Later, when George and Tessa are eating barbeque on the back porch, George said that he used to know a "beautiful woman who he could not stand" and Tessa said she loves hearing stories about her mother. In "Independence Day", George meets with Tessa's grandmother after reading Tessa's poem about her absent mother.

They end up arguing like in-laws do. We also find out Tessa's mom is named Alex and Tessa apparently looks like her and has a similar personality. In the season finale, "The Motherload", Eden worries about Tessa not being sensitive enough about her absent mother.

She pretends not to worry as Chatswin celebrates its mothers during the day. Though, later Tessa drives by overlooking all the Mother's Day festivities occuring throughout Chatswin and slowing starts to tear up. When she gets out of the car, we hear a "Tessa", and Tessa turns around to see a woman she recongnized from photos - her grandma. Tessa said she wasn't only looking at the grandmother she never had, but a way to get out of Suburbia.

Tessa's appearance is often found disturbing by her peers; for example, the motorcycle boots she wears on her first day of school leads Dalia to speculate that Tessa is a lesbian, which is false. She has shoulder-length light auburn hair with blue eyes. She is very slender and fair-skinned. She wears simple-colored attire, normally with brown, green, gray, pale orange or black. She sometimes wears dresses over T-shirts with leggings.

She usually wears boots with her outfits. He realized that Tessa's never had anyone cheer her on before, so him and a couple of his friends make a 'Go Tessa' banner and she runs through it into her classroom, a little bit embarrassed, but happy nevertheless for the thought.

Ryan asks Scott how he gets his hair so smooth and good looking. He then asks if he can touch it as he just can't resist, he says yeah, no problem, so he touches Scott's hair and just sighs - then tells Tessa to leave him for Scott.

That he'd absolutely understand why, and that they'd make a perfect couple. Tessa insists no way, then she kisses Ryan on the cheek. Ryan decides to take over when Tessa can't get enough ratings, so he can hang out with his girlfriend more. She then gets into a big fight with him and he calls her a loser because she doesn't have as many friends, and participates in zero school activities.

Tessa then fires Ryan from 'Teen Talk', and he storms out in a huff. After realizing that the show is failing once again without Ryan, Tessa decides to bring on a special segment: Her talking about Ryan's body.

A caller rings in asking Tessa what her favorite part of Ryan's body is. She instantly says that her favorite part is undoubtedly his heart. Ryan hears this, and immediately rushes out the door to her. He comes in, and apologizes for calling Tessa a loser. Tessa in turn says she's sorry that she was acting like one. The two of them reconcile and kiss.

Tessa and Ryan go to see an arthouse movie. While Tessa doesn't understand the movie, Ryan surprisingly seems like he was really into it, and even understands the different ideas involved with the film. When the film ends, Ryan walks away from Tessa because he "feels like walking the earth". Tessa then shows up at a classmate's party. She sits down on the couch, and they discuss about how he liked the movie and she did not - not what she had expected.

She then says maybe that's what makes them a cool couple, that they are unpredictable. He agrees Then they share a kiss. Tessa found out that Ryan lied to her in the previous episode about going to an away game for three days.

She's upset with him, and he tries to explain to her that he's being pursued, not by girls but by colleges. Tessa isn't sure how to feel about Ryan leaving her behind. Ryan and Lisa are sitting outside a frozen yogurt shop in Chatswin, and Ryan talks to Lisa about how he thinks that Tessa is breaking up with him, even though she didn't say it "with her words".

Ryan then asks Lisa if he should defer for a year and stay in Chatswin so that way when Tessa goes to college, they can go together. Lisa then tells Ryan that that isn't going to work, because Tessa will most likely attend a college that values the curious mind, creativity, hard work, and intellect Ryan shows up at Tessa's place, and tells her that he doesn't want to scare her off by bringing up the 'L' word.

But then proceeds to tell her that he loves her, he's in love with her, and he loves loving her. Tessa asks Ryan which L word he was talking about then, and he replies by saying 'Leaving'. He then tells her that he has a plan to keep him in Chatswin.

Tessa asks him, "Ryan, did you do something stupid? Ryan then gets Jarrison, the photographer who took their holiday pictures, to hit him in the leg with a metal pipe. Tessa tries to call Jarrison before he breaks Ryan's leg, but only reaches his voicemail instead. Jarrison comes out of the bushes and tries to break Ryan's leg, but Ryan says that he's still all good, his leg isn't broken.

Jarrison then tells the two of them that he's having a special at the photo shop, and that there's going to be a special for wallet sized prints. Tessa asks Ryan if he wants a wallet sized picture of her to take to college, and he replies he'd rather have a life-sized one of her to take with him to college. Ryan's trying to decide on which college he wants to attend. He can either go to college near Chatswin, or he can go to Florida, as Florida's always been his dream school.

So Tessa tells him she's going to put all the college's names into a hat and do a random drawing. But she rigs the drawing, by only putting in Mid Florida Tech's name into the hat.

At Ryan's press conference, he announces to the school that he's going to be attending college in Florida. Ryan and Tessa are in his room, after Dalia tells Ryan what she knows, and Tessa asks Ryan to not be mad at her, as she did it for him.