I know most people don't respond well if you say something negative about their favorite show but I can't help it. If you like it I'm glad for you (really) but please allow me my opinion.
I am one of those who doesn't think that this is THE best show ever. It's not even the best sitcom in my opinion. It had its moments but not many. Maybe it isn't fair to judge it 25 years after the fact because that is a long time in TV land and things change. But most of the stuff I dislike has nothing to do with timeframe.
First, why this is called Friends is beyond me. Those are the most dishonest, selfish, egoistic and sometimes even mean group of people I've seen on TV. They constantly try to withhold stuff and most of the comedic situations spawn from that. I don't see where it is funny to go behind your friends backs. There are those moments where there behave like friends should, but those come usually after they screwed up.
Than there is the characters. I've written in some episode's comment that Ross is the most obnoxious character I've ever seen on TV. And I've seen my share. And there is WAY too much of him and Rachel who I also disliked deeply. They pull down every episode they're in which is pretty much every episode. That constant back and forth, the bickering and their pretensious behaviour is so annoying. Joey was funny at first but that wears out fast once you get past 50 episodes. Very one-dimensional. I don't even know what to say about Chandler because he is that bland. Monica went from "I don't care" through "I kinda like her" but ultimately annoying. Phoebe I liked until she, too, got the I-need-to-marry virus. Until that she was honest in that she didn't care what others thought about her and just made her thing. Alltogether there was little character developement in any of them. I couldn't connect with them and was more interested in what guest stars might turn up next.
And what it is anyway with all the girls need to find guys to marry and get babies and the guys needing to score? It is a good thing there wasn't any social media available because with all those gay and trans jokes there would have probably been a lot of heat.
That laughing track is way over the top. It accompanied literally every sentence. It even ruined jokes by starting to early. And what is wrong with building up an emotional moment and going through with it instead of ruining it with a bad joke ?
So, why did I watch, and even complete, it ? It's simple. And I mean that in the true sense of the word. You don't have to pay close attention to the plot, f.e. you don't have to stop it if the phone rings, you can even skip an episode completely. It's like having a radio playing in the background. Sometimes reading the synopsis was as interesting as the actual episode. Let's be honest: continuity, logic and depth of story were not the trademarks of Friends. It is full of holes and errors. But it fitted my daily schedule. I could drop in a couple of episodes here and there. And I punished myself a little bit because I went out and bought the whole series at once. Had I watched the first season first I would stopped there and then.
This is the longest review I've written in a while which shows I thought about this show a lot. I like versitality, it would be boring if every show was the same. That doesn't stop me though from speaking my mind. This is a love or hate kind of show. I don't hate it as such. But there were only just one or two episodes a season I think were more than average. It became better towards the end (either that or I caved) but it was an effort to get through and I am glad I'm done with.
Rest in Peace Matthew Perry, bought us one of the funniest characters in TV with Chandler Bing
If you want see how white people were in 1994, this is the show to watch. Haha.
Well as I am really close to the last episodes of this show,I can confirm that this show is one of the best series you can ever watch and this one can be classed easily as the best comedy show ever.
All the characters are cool and likable and you will love them from the first episode to the last one
My favorite shows comes in this order:
1-Breaking Bad
2-Game of thrones
3-Friends <3
The One where we all lost a friend. Rest in peace Matthew Perry!
The first three seasons is where it's at, after that it becomes formulaic. Characters become caricatures of themselves which is disappointing. In saying that though, the cast have such a great dynamic together.
Friends is really easy to watch, which for me has ultimately become it's drawback, as I've seen the episodes too many times. I find myself getting annoyed with the characters now more often than I did 10 years ago, which has altered my perception of the show. Seinfeld's strength is Friends' weakness, given Seinfeld has no overarching storyline (with minor references in some episodes to past episodes), the episodes become standalone, giving Seinfeld the unparalleled advantage on focusing purely on the characters and their nuances in certain situations.
Season Scores:
1 - 7.5 / 2 - 7.6 / 3 - 8 / 4 - 7.8 / 5 - 7.9 / 6 - 6 / 7 - 8.2 / 8 - 6.6 / 9 - 7.6 / 10 - 8.7
Average Total: 7.59
The one that's not for everyone. In pop culture, there is the saying you are either a Elvis fan or a Beatles fan. That statement was adapted in the late 90's to, you're either a Friends fan or a Seinfeld fan. Now I don't personally buy into neither ethos, I understand the logic behind it. There is a frame-of-mind compatibility when it comes to Friends. If you are looking for simple turn off your brain humor it'll work perfectly, whereas comedy with complexity and nuisance is what you're looking for, look elsewhere. in my opinion, is it the best show in the world? No. Is it even the best sitcom ever? No. But it's fun as hell and I do enjoy it very much.
This show never gets old! No matter how often you watch the episodes, they're always funny :)
I've seen several random episodes as a kid but never completed the series. Now I'm finally going through all of it, and I absolutely love the series and its humour.
I just finished the show and it's like I've said goodbye to my best friends :(
This show makes me really happy whenever I've watched it
Comedy for the masses. You can see the jokes coming from 5 mins back. Pretty bad show. It's no Seinfeld that's for sure.
Such a beautiful, refreshing and funny show. Friends really does have it all - heartbreak, humour, happiness and even anger. I was so skeptical of watching this because it's very different from what I usually watch but I listened to everyone's recommendations and gave it a go and boy was I glad I did!
All characters are perfectly written (Team Chandler) and watching them grow and learn together was so bittersweet, that final episode really did make me cry. I really recommend everyone to give this a try as Friends will always be remembers as one of the best. 10/10
R.I.P Matthew Perry :broken_heart:
"We were on a break!" You won't need a break once you pick this show up. The series follows 6 tight knit friends in New York City trying to find their way through the early stages of adulthood. It dives into all the classic topics of youth: dating, professional life and post school self identity. "Friends" ushered in some of the funniest sitcom moments with a slew of hilarious hijinks. As the seasons go on, and the characters age, the show moves from young single life to long-term relationships, marriage and children. While the show was made for everyone, I'd highly recommend watching this when you're expecting a child. It perfectly sums up life before and slightly after kids. It feels like a seamless transition to your new life.
"Friends" is nearly perfect in everyway. My only complaint would be that it doesn't have a strong overarching story running through the show. After the first few seasons it mostly plays the "will they, won't they" game with various characters. That being said, each episode is so funny and enjoyable that it's hardly relevant. This is show is a masterpiece of calamity and the characters sell themselves.
Could I be watching anymore episodes? I think you'll find that the answer is always yes.
9/10
I love this show, I have watched it more than 5 times!
please get a life soon
6 leads; all white, hetero people. I'm sure in 1998 these jokes were funny but now, this ain't it. Most overrated show ever. The 10% I watched, I did so in an empty room as I had guessed I might put forks in my eyes.
Friends!...how many of us have themmmm??...friends!
My #1 Sitcom of all time!
Friends is simply a masterpiece. Even though this television series is meant to be comical, it portrays an honest and quite good demonstration of what reality is like. You will laugh non-stop watching this show and you will find yourself getting extremely attached to the characters, that you'll end up wishing they were your real life friends!
Just perfect. Nothing else to add.
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The best show ever!!!!!!!!! ♥
I saw this show when it originally aired. It has its moments and was a cultural touchstone during the later 90s.
With that said, the show really doesn't hold up well - compared to say Seinfeld. Both show a similar side of New York, although the latter is more grounded in reality - showing interactions with the different socioeconomic classes of NYC.
Unlike Friends, which almost exclusively seems to paint a picture of NYC as a city where only white affluent people live & where money seems to never be a problem. Ignoring that they seem to have considerable amount of free time and wealth to spend, the show had its moments but became extremely repetitive.
Overall, Friends is a show that you can watch and rewatch at will. I know some will say it has gotten a little old, the jokes are dated and the lack of diversity is shining exemple to the 90s treatment of non-white characters.I'll concede the last point but this show hasn't aged apart from that. The main theme at its core is life in your twenties, finding love, making a career and this is all very much still the magic of that show. The cast is incredible in their different parts and while I'll always have a soft spot for David Schwimmer as Ross, all the other actors are solid and contribute in their own way.
Friends will make you smile when you're down.
What can you say about "Friends"? A show that after all these years is still on TVs and streaming platforms all over the world. How many times can you watch till you've had enough? I don't think I will ever stop watching it. To me, "Friends" is about the friends I would really like to have, in a timeline much simpler than the one we currently are.
Best series ever :heart::blue_heart::yellow_heart::heart::yellow_heart::blue_heart:
The only thing that removes depression from me and makes me smile all the time!!!
Just done with this. Although I can't say I love it as a whole series or among my favorite comedies, this is surprisingly sturdy the whole way through. Even its worst season (in its late run) has at least one great episode and a few very good ones sprinkled throughout. Above all though, this has to be among the most perfect comedy ensemble castings ever? Not a weak link here, which carries it some way through even at its worst writing. I've seen comment here and there that often singles out Kudrow at the only "real" actor of the cast, which must be career retrospective bias or otherwise it's insane, since all work so well individually and together from the start, and honing their skills over time as the series progresses and even as their characters become more caricatures. Ross as a character, for example, regresses bad around the time of his second marriage crumple in Season 5, but that conversely frees Schwimmer up for some of the best physical bits ever in the show.
Not ranking the cast (genuinely can't do it at the moment), but (alphabetic) praise for each:
Aniston - best dramatic acting
Cox - best (barely suppressed) manic energy
Kudrow - best throwaway airiness/non-sequiturs
LeBlanc - best facial expression/reaction
Perry - best line delivery
Schwimmer - best physical comedy
Greatest sitcom ever! Lovable characters and compelling story!
This show is pretty much the essential American sitcom. Its incredibly funny but has some really meaningful moments too. I can't say I always liked every character, but I came to realize that part of the point is to be realistic and you can't like everyone the entire time. The real thing preventing this show from being a true 10 is the obscene number of clip episodes (episodes consisting of over 90% old episode clips). If it weren't for those annoying reuses of old clips, I would happily say this is probably the best sitcom to have graced the American television. I've probably learned more about how to approach friendship and life from this show than anyone else, now I just need to get off the TV and get out there :smiley:.
One of the best sitcoms ever! I love this show so much!
Great show, I loved all the 5 friends. There was also Phoebe but she was just an awful person.
keep watching on warner channel s2
I watched the entire thing over quarantine because one of my friend's a big fan and I wanted to like,, show interest in her interests or whatever. and it's not like I'm regretting it but I'm also not happy about it. chandler is funny, Monica is my favourite character, I didn't care about Rachel or joey, phoebe is more annoying than fun and Ross can choke. the way he treats his sister is disgusting, idk why y'all always focus on his romantic relationships to "prove" he sucks when Monica is literally right there. anyways, the humour is very dated and I'm convinced most of y'all my age (born '99) and younger laugh along for the vibes. or maybe I'm just uncultured. either way, a lot of the references were very timely and thus now age the show,, a lot. makes it quite boring to watch tbh. most of the show is just,,, very mid, even compared to other 90s sitcoms. not for me, but that's okay. I'll leave y'all to your nostalgia and go back to mine ^^
Honestly, extremely mid. Definitely a product of its time but in its time it was a good show.
In current times, it's a great background noise.
Why does season 8 only have 23 episodes when it originally had 24 .... So can it be fixed ?
Never gets old, episodes always funny no matter how often you watch them, a real comfort show
A goat honestly I watched like a billion times
I really wanted to give this one a fair shot, but it just turned out to be too unfunny, too immature, too dated, and too boring. "Friends" tops many people's lists of best sitcoms ever, but it really just boils down to really dated 90's humor, cliche love triangles, nonsensical and poorly paced plotlines, and incessant stereotypical humor. The entire cast struggles with likeability, with the only real exception being Matthew Perry's "Chandler" due to his ability to actually have comic timing. The rest of the characters are just too cliche or too unlikeable (Rachel and Ross are easily the worst TV couple of all time). Unlike "Seinfeld", nothing about "Friends" stuck out to me during its first two seasons, and instead I felt like I was watching a bunch of people in their late 20's act like they were 17. The worst parts are the horrible "lesbian couple" jokes or the strange fascination with focusing alienating people of other races, which made a show that lacked cast diversity that much more uninteresting and unenjoyable. Off-putting, unfunny, overly dragged out - that was my experience with this show.
Final Verdict: 5.44/10 (Average)
One of the most overrated shows of all time without a doubt.
The only show i would rewatch :)
Search up “Friends with no laugh track” on YouTube and you’ll realize how garbage this show is
Comfort show I’m currently watching for the 5th time
Seen this show for 25 times and I'm already watching for 26th time currently on season 2
This is definitely an entertaining show that I did enjoy watching, however is it worth all the hype, (in my opinion), that's it's received, no. it's a fun show to relax to and enjoy with some great and funny moments, some comedic jokes stepped slightly over the line and I was sad that, unlike other sitcoms I've seen this one didn't seem to be able to balance sombre and comedic moments as well as them. However this is filled with a brilliant cast, the main six Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Mathew Perry, Matt Leblanc, Courtney Cox, and David Schwimer all did brilliant playing the main roles in this show. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this.
Theres nothing bad to say this show is so funny and its the best show to watch when your in a bad mood. I love it so much
Being born into a white family in 1992, Friends was a big deal! I remember my mother asking the hairdresser to cut my hair like Rachel's. While I didn't pay a lot of attention to it as my mom watched, I do remember the last season as it was happening and feeling what a big deal this show was and what a big deal it was that it was ending after being on nearly my entire life.
However, I don't quite agree that it is the BEST show ever nor has it aged completely well. I try to avoid allowing critiques of characters' personalities cloud my judgement of the show, since it is just a show and personalities are going to be exaggerated, but it is hard to avoid letting their flaws overshadow the overall enjoyment after the first few seasons, especially since they seem to lean into those flaws as the show got more popular over time. Tropes tend to get played over and over.
With that being said, it is a good neutral show to have handy to play in the background or just when you are having one of those days.
You want comedy! This is the series to watch!
I somewhat missed out on watching "Friends" while I was growing up. I was vaguely familiar with it, but if you had asked me to name any character, I would have struggled. Give it a month worth of binging and now it's quickly become one of my all-time favourite TV series. I genuinely believe "Friends" to be a pinnacle in the sitcom genre, perhaps the one that perfected the now dated laugh track format.
What, in my opinion, separates "Friends" from most other sitcoms and, frankly, comedies in general, is the cast of characters. All of them have unique personalities, backstories and personal development. You quickly get attached to them and get to see them spent 10 years of their lives together. Throughout all this, you see all the events that occur in their lives, which gradually change them without betraying their esssence. Another notable factor is the relatability of the friends' everyday situations. Whether it be a comedic moment that hits a little true to home, or someone's struggle that you can understand, it grounds the series in spite of its often outlandish tone.
I liked the show from the start, but grew to love it after the first couple of seasons. I needed time to grow to the cast and for the series to get rid of some of its more annoying plot contrivances, namely certain relationship drama. The episodes are standalone and worked well for the cable TV format of old, but I can attest to its bingeability. "Friends" is not a comedy that pretends to be more than it is, perhaps only doing so very early on. It learns to thrive on its goofiness and makes for an easy and comfortable watch. It's greatness is in its very nature, which it doesn't shy away from. It's a show you can always go to, whether your life is going down or up. It can definitely feel as if you are hanging out with some of your own friends.
I've mentioned now more than once how silly the series gets, but there's certainly some wittier moments present. The writing is sharp when it needs to be, and rarely fails to get a laugh out of me. Surprisingly, some rather series topics can be covered here. It's almost always done with a humourous view of things, but it can certainly provoke you to contemplate some of what is seen.
There's some issues with the show, but none that ruin the experience for me. I do wish the ending could have been a bit more detailed regarding certain character's fates, but it's nothing that bugged me much. I felt melancholic to have parted with this group I found myself rooting for during 10 seasons. Chandler remained my favourite throughout, and I made sure to clap during the intro everytime I could.
i really liked this show. it's fun and easy to watch and it's comfortable. it'll always be there for you :) the acting is great too and chandler is my spirit animal :P
The cast is great and the show is funny. Unfortunately, the showrunners obviously didn't have a long-term plan or any attention to detail. These issues lead to many technical mistakes and an absurd amount of continuity issues.
love this show!Does somebody know when the movie`s gonna come?
Could it be any more amazing
What's not to love about Friends? A show originally airing in the 90's that still holds up to all ages today is a feat in and of itself, but the fact it is watched and adored by so many today even after being off the air for 16 years is simply incredible. In my opinion, the show was ever so slightly rocky to start due to some awkward character writing, and then dragged on in season six with some unfunny humor (in comparison to the rest), but beyond that the other eight seasons were REALLY rock solid. Can't recommend enough. I am sure I will rewatch again eventually.
Average Season Review: 8.5/10
Recommendation - Must See (for Sitcom Fans)
The best comedy series to date!
Hands down my favourite comedy to watch. I can't recall how many times I've re-watched this series.
Best series ever seen it 11 times, will keep on watching
i just finished it omg
First 4 seasons are classic.
I LOVE this show. One of the greatest comedies of all time. Through syndication I watch it almost every day!
Is it strange that Friends never explored a Joey/Phoebe relationship? That would have been interesting.
Can I give it more than 10? If you find out how, please let me know!!!
This show almost perfectly fits in the problems of the generation X stepping into the adulthood. Great work of the creators that almost everyone could find themselves among the "Friends".
The greatest sitcom off all time!
All time classic. Still funny today.
Actually one of my favourite TV Show ever!!
My all time favorite tv show I loved watching in my youth! :) Nowadays, you watch it and look at the characters differently. Like, why didn't I love Monica more or I used to love Ross and Rachel, but now I notice what an arrogant ass Ross really was. But all in all, this group of friends totally brightens my days! ;)
Love the show. The only problem is the abbreviated final season.
Best of the Best <3
The greatest comedy show I have ever seen!
What can I say? It's "Friends"! If you havent seen it or not like it then something must be wrong with you!
A comedy show with great "replay value"! Gets my seal of approval!
Classic. 6 very different people who just work perfectly together. Sadly missed!!
Cracks me up a little, and then more. It numbs the noise in your life so easily.
BEST COMEDY TV SHOW EVER MADE! :) I think ill watch it again after 3 years or little bit more :)
enjoyed it soo much.
Do I even dare talk about Friends? The magic that is a sitcom that runs for 10 years, with the magic of the script, the actors' chemistry, the evolution of their lives, the epicness of Joey, the unforgettable Rachel-Ross love story... there's nothing you could say about Friends, except it shaped a generation and spun so many similar TV shows (Happy Endings, How I Met Your Mother come to mind)
Simply a masterpiece.Truly a classic.
engrave every scene of this show on my tombstone
Best tv series ever!
Best TV Series ever!
So much love for Friends.
Classical TV Show, good sitcom for everyone :)
My all time favorite.
The best show ever, sad it's over now
Simply the best show ever <3
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I laugh every time is see this show. And I am watching it again for the (I lost the count) time. You become a part of that friends, you are one of them and you feel what they feel, quoting what they're saying. You even wish things went differently every time that something happens between Ross and Rachel. And by all that, every single time I laugh like an idiot at every episode. You got to love this series, forever.