In the meantime, Stephanie writes a self-help book on dumping your worthless man, using all of PJ's friends as examples, and becomes a huge success, while managing to anger the guys. Andy and his pregnant wife, Meredith (Gaffigan's real-life wife, Jeannie Noth), have some marital distress when Andy starts hanging around with a female work buddy a little too much, but they eventually work things out with a little help from a marriage counselor. Mike (Jamie Kaler) goes to work for Kenny (Michael Bunin) at his sports collectables shop and the two spend the season sparring over women, with Kenny being a chick-magnet for some unknown reason and Mike being his typical chick-repellant self. Brendan (Reid Scott) loses his job as a DJ and is forced to temp at Andy's law firm, causing him to rethink his life. However, during Bobby's bachelor party, he meets a friend of Bobby's who is opening a club and needs someone to run it, so he gets a new lease on life.
PJ meets someone at Bobby's bachelor party as well, Bobby's handsome older brother, Jack (Billy Burke) and the two seem smitten with one another, but both are hesitant to reveal their feelings for each other Bobby. When the entire gang congregates at Bobby's dad's ranch in Santa Barbara for his and Elsa's dream wedding, lots of things come to a head. Stephanie and Kenny end up secretly falling into bed with one another, Mike has a fling with an older woman (Mimi Rogers), Bobby has second thoughts about Elsa and confides in Andy, then goes to tell PJ, only to discover his older brother in her room.
My Boys: The Complete Third Season begins with this same scene and Bobby storming off in shock. All of the confusion causes Bobby and Elsa to call off the wedding, permanently once he and PJ reveal their true feelings for each other, and Jack quickly melts out of the picture. From then on out, Bobby and PJ are a couple, but they opt to keep things quiet from the gang for a while, to avoid being mocked. Eventually the truth comes out and everyone comes to accept them dating. PJ gets a promotion and gets her own column, while being teased that she got the job because she is hot. Brendan finds himself becoming Mr. Popular as the manager of a new club and Mike and Kenny reap the rewards when they go party with Brendan. Andy's role is pretty quiet this season, what with the new baby and all, but his marriage counselor from the previous season, played by Martin Mull, pops up again as an infiltrator into the group, making things uncomfortable for Andy. The season finale finds the entire group at spring training, since Bobby is there covering it and PJ has to write an article and come up with something new and fresh. Honestly, the season finale didn't seem like it was coming to a cliffhanger climax and it felt more like the end of the series, but the final scene is PJ musing with Bobby about what important thing Stephanie kept trying to tell her during spring training, only to see Stephanie and Kenny making out! While Season Two was definitely stronger and funnier than Season Three, the packaging of the two of them together was great, especially since each season only contained 9 episodes.
While there are no special features and only 18 episodes across the two seasons, My Boys remains one of the funnier series on TV. I've loved it since the first time I saw it and the series as a whole is terrific. I'm so pleased it was renewed for a 4th season and I can't wait to see what shenanigans the gang gets themselves involved in. The cast is fantastic and gels so well together; if you haven't yet had the pleasure of seeing this fantastic show, now is the time. Highly recommended.
