Meet Jonathan Ames: writer, romantic and unlicensed private eye who investigates a series of quirky cases in this HBO comedy series.more
Meet Jonathan Ames: writer, romantic and unlicensed private eye w...More
Starring: Jason SchwartzmanTed DansonZach Galifianakis
Creator: Jonathan Ames
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Series Premiere. Numbed after his girlfriend moves out, between-books novelist Jonathan Ames (Jason Schwartzman) is inspired to place an ad on the Internet offering his (unlicensed) services as a private investigator. Within hours he gets his first case, involving a 19-year-old girl's desperate search for her missing sister.
During an unsuccessful attempt to win back Suzanne, Jonathan gets a phone call and a new case: a woman named Jennifer (Kristen Wiig) wants him to tail her boyfriend Gary (Peter Hermann) to see if he's been unfaithful. Meanwhile, Ray brings Jonathan along to his colonic for moral support, and George hatches a plan to cover up an unsightly sore.
An ill-advised late-night tryst with a (very) young party girl undermines Jonathan's chance to rewrite a Jim Jarmusch script. Meanwhile, George is flummoxed when he runs into his sexy ex-wife Priscilla and her arrogant new husband, fellow publishing magnate Richard Antrem.
Jonathan falls for his latest client, the mother of a boy whose skateboard was stolen by neighborhood bully. Meanwhile, Ray agrees to help a lesbian couple start a new family, to wife Leah's chagrin; and George has a nostalgic "armpit crush" on a young publicist he hopes to woo at the opening of a new Brooklyn restaurant.
A smitten Russian parolee contracts Jonathan to find a chanteuse known as "the Lonely White Dove." After a vodka-fueled reconnaissance mission at the Brighton Beach restaurant where she works, Jonathan persuades Suzanne -- and Ray and Leah -- to join him there for dinner the next night, failing to reveal his true purpose. Meanwhile, George gets in touch with his feminine side.
Jonathan is enlisted to retrieve a sex tape that a female escort is using to extort money from a married New Jersey man. With Ray and George in tow, Jonathan ends up in a motel room with the escort, who attempts to blackmail him as well. Can the very stoned Ray and George save Jonathan's neck before the woman's enraged brother breaks it?
Ray enlists Jonathan to help him track down a lesbian couple who had been buying his sperm. After breaking into their apartment, Jonathan learns the pair has flown the coop -- and left behind a clue that both shocks and intrigues Ray. Meanwhile, George ignores Jonathan's warnings by publishing a disparaging editorial about Richard Antrem.
Season One finale. Having picked up the gauntlet thrown by Richard -- and having thwarted a blackmail bid aimed at getting Jonathan to take a dive -- George, Jonathan and Ray gear up for a boxing challenge against their GQ rivals. But with the bouts only hours away, the women in their lives offer up some compelling reasons why winning a fight isn't everything.
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Meet Jonathan Ames: writer, romantic and unlicensed private eye who investigates a series of quirky cases in this HBO comedy series.