Season Guide
The Detour Season 1
Season 1 Review
⚠ Spoiler alert Season notes below reveal how the story develops.
Season 1 of The Detour premiered 2016-04-11 and ran 10 episodes through 2016-05-30.
Episodes
1
Summary Nate, Robin and the kids are headed from Syracuse to Ft. Lauderdale in a janky mini van instead of flying. Between truckers, aggressive drivers and road side breakfast spots,…
2
Summary Having driven their van, ‘Blue Thunder’, into a ditch, it has to be repaired over night. The Parkers stay at a nearby motel, Swift Stay Suites. What could possibly…
3
Summary The Parkers are barely back on the road when Nate gets pulled over for driving under the influence. He’s completely sober but somehow there’s still some jail time involved.…
4
Summary Back on the road, the Parkers begrudgingly stop to eat at a nauseatingly, culturally insensitive, roadside restaurant and dinner theater called Conquistadors. Our Take The Conquistadors dinner theater premise…
5
Summary While the kids recover from acute food poisoning, the Parkers decide to get some rest at a southern B&B. They are treated to southern hospitality, southern customs and Russian…
6
SummaryInstead of getting back on the road, Robin agrees to marry the southern gentleman Dr. Rob and his Russian bride but soon realizes that something is very, very, very, very…
7
Summary Blue Thunder is stuck in traffic. Nate and Robin take a stroll down memory lane about how they met and the kids learn an important lesson in ‘too much…
8
Summary Nate needs to take a detour to Salvation, Florida where it’s Christmas every day of the year – except on Christmas. Things get tense when the family discovers that…
9
Summary The Parkers finally make it to Ft. Lauderdale only to have Nate’s plan of getting his job back completely unravel. Fortunately, at a nearby race track, there is hope.…
10
Summary Nate, Robin and the kids attempt to take down Nate’s company in epic whistle blowing fashion. It won’t be easy, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned about this…