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- 1994
- TV-14
- NBC
- 1994
- TV-14
- NBC
Summary In 1994, the idea was created for "Friends": a show about six friends in New York as they navigate their way through life and learn to grow up as they approach the third decade of their life. All, with the help from each other to get them through the obstacles that life naturally has for us. Monica is the excessively neat and organized "...
Created By: David Crane, Marta Kauffman
- 1994
- TV-14
- NBC
- 1994
- TV-14
- NBC
Friends
10 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 22, 1994
65
8.7
Where to Watch
Summary In 1994, the idea was created for "Friends": a show about six friends in New York as they navigate their way through life and learn to grow up as they approach the third decade of their life. All, with the help from each other to get them through the obstacles that life naturally has for us. Monica is the excessively neat and organized "...
Created By: David Crane, Marta Kauffman
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
65
54% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
33% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
13% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
65
54% Positive
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
33% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
13% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
This series has become as dependably amusing as any show on television.
The sexy, urbane Friends -- from Marta Kauffman, David Crane and Kevin Bright, the people responsible for the HBO super-comedy "Dream On" -- starts fairly strongly tonight, improves next Thursday and in week three gets on a grand, hilarious, rip-roaring roll. It's the perfect series to bridge "Mad About You" and "Seinfeld." [22 Sept 1994, p.F1]
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 2,170 User Ratings
8.7
90% Positive
1953 Ratings
1953 Ratings
3% Mixed
71 Ratings
71 Ratings
7% Negative
146 Ratings
146 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 2,170 User Ratings
8.7
90% Positive
1953 Ratings
1953 Ratings
3% Mixed
71 Ratings
71 Ratings
7% Negative
146 Ratings
146 Ratings
Best show ever. After long time still touches the heart, makes me laugh and cry (sometimes both at the same time). Definitely my winner.
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What helps Friends is that the show's creators have come up with a highly likable group of actors who are talented and charming, if not rip-roaringly funny. [21 Sept 1994, p.C2]
None of the six main actors is a stand-up comic, but they're appealing nonetheless...If the scripts get a little sharper, Friends may attract enough of the right demographics to become a hit. [22 Sept 1994]
The trouble with "Friends" is that Cox is not strong enough as a comedian. [5 Sep 1994]
So it's come to this - all talk and no action... Some of the lines are funny and several of the stars, particularly Aniston and David Schwimmer, who plays Ross, are appealing. But something is missing here and that something is a story. Where's the beef?[22 Sept 1994, p.F1]
Friends comes across like a 30-minute commercial for Dockers or Ikea or light beer, except it's smuttier. One character says he dreamed he had a telephone for a penis and when it rang, "it turns out it's my mother." And this is in the first five minutes...Another ghastly creation from professional panderers Marta Kauffman and David Crane, the witless duo who do "Dream On" for HBO, Friends is more a scripted talk show than a sitcom. You keep waiting for Sally Jessy or some other cluck to interrupt the jabbering. The show is so bad that Sally Jessy would actually come as a relief. [22 Sept 1994, p.D1]
The best sitcom of the 90's and 2000's, I just recently watched all the episodes back to back, just great! I love this show! The New York flat share with Rachel, Joey, Ross, Phoebe, Monica and Chandler, a top cast, just real friends, also in real life. Memories of my youth came back to me. Special mention should be made of the chameo performances by many stars. Sadly one is no longer with us. The amazing and talented Robin Williams, whom I admire very much. A great and incredibly talented actor of our modern times. Also, in New York there is now a "Friends Experience" (The Friends Experience, 130 E 23rd St, New York, NY 10010, United States), a must for all true fans of the series! Although the series was not filmed in New York. AWESOME! BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO!
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I really didn't laugh at all and I watched the series tightly until it ended. I was forced to watch it until the end. Out of respect, I give 6 points
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How this show is so popular? I have no idea. Mindnumbingly stupid jokes, incredibly boring characters, and nothing worth mentioning in terms of merit. I guess if you're not a native English speaker it can be a good way to learn English but other than that I wouldn't recommend this show to my worst enemy.
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I've watched friends twice now and I can conclude that I have wasted a lot of time, I was a fool to watch this show twice. Its unrealistic, unnatural and filled with bad jokes. The humor in this show is just an illusion of comedy. If you look back at all your favorite jokes in fact all jokes, they are just a lazy attempt to bring joy to the viewer and it fails in that so the 'laugh tracks' literally tell you when to laugh. It feels like the show just cant come up with good jokes and to cover them up they came up with laugh tracks, remove these laugh tracks and listen to the jokes and you will realize how bad they actually are. Overall friends is a pathetic excuse of a funny TV show, boring plot, unrealistic events, annoying characters.
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Production Company:
- Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions
- Warner Bros. Television
Initial Release Date: Sep 22, 1994
Number of seasons: 10 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 10 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 6 Wins & 62 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 12 Wins & 55 Nominations
