Genres: | Comedy |
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When Kevin retires from the police force, he thinks life will be all about hanging out with his wife and kids and going on the occasional adventure with fellow retirees, Goody and Duffy, and his brother Kyle. A different narrative starts to take shape when he discovers his wife, Donna, has been protecting him from certain family info while he was out keeping the streets safe.
It turns out that their oldest daughter, Kendra, wants to drop out of college and get a job to support her fiance, their middle child, Sara, is struggling at school, and their youngest, Jack, is a hypochondriac.
For the time being, Kevin will have to postpone a life of leisure and work on keeping his family in shape.
After realizing that Donna has arranged the house to her liking, Kevin resolves to take it back. Kendra tries to toughen up Chale.
Kevin secretly hires someone to do his chores so he can play football with his friends.
Having deemed his friends boring, Kevin wrangles an invitation to accompany Donna to her hard-partying book club.
Kevin and Donna’s anniversary exposes a lie he told years ago to protect Goody.
Kevin takes a job as a bartender but he goes too far when he starts dispensing unsolicited advice to his customers.
After Kevin quits his part-time gig as a supermarket security guard, Donna suggests that he try to make money by doing something he is passionate about.
Kevin insists that the family bond over Sunday dinner, unaware that his friends are planning a big surprise that same night.
Kevin volunteers to help Mott and his seven kids prepare for the holidays while Mott's wife is away, much to the dismay of Donna who is left high and dry on her own until Kyle swoops in to help.
While Kevin tries to charm his elderly neighbor into giving him permission to cut down one of her trees, he gets intimidated by her son and inadvertently invites them to his house for a non-existent party.
Kevin and Donna jeopardize their chance for a kid-free vacation care of their chiropractor when he catches them using his colleague's services. Meanwhile, Kyle, still bitter that Kevin overlooked him to be best man at his wedding to Donna, tries to convince Chale to give him that responsibility
Kevin competes with his childhood nemesis who is intent on reserving the same church date for his daughter's nuptials that Kendra wants for her wedding to Chale. Both men battle for the priest's approval by becoming more involved in the church.
Kevin and Chale get jobs working in the warehouse at an electronics store to help pay for the wedding, but Chale's quick promotion to the sales floor kick-starts Kevin's competitive side.
After Goody and Didi invite the Motts on a weekend getaway with them, Kevin and Donna are offended by the friendship demotion and go online to find new couples to hang out with.
Kevin strikes up an unlikely friendship with Harry Connick Jr., but he gets caught in a web of lies trying to impress his new friend.