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- CBS
- Mar 31, 2014
- CBS
- Mar 31, 2014
Summary Newly divorced Will (James Van Der Beek), engaged couple Jules (Brooklyn Decker) and Lowell (Rick Donald), single career woman Kate (Zoe Lister-Jones), and married couple Andi (Majandra Delfino) and Bobby (Kevin Connolly) are friends who think each other situation is better than their own.
Created By: Dana Klein
- CBS
- Mar 31, 2014
- CBS
- Mar 31, 2014
Summary Newly divorced Will (James Van Der Beek), engaged couple Jules (Brooklyn Decker) and Lowell (Rick Donald), single career woman Kate (Zoe Lister-Jones), and married couple Andi (Majandra Delfino) and Bobby (Kevin Connolly) are friends who think each other situation is better than their own.
Created By: Dana Klein
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Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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11% Positive
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56% Mixed
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33% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
45
11% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
56% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
33% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
If even a few good performances lock into your vision, you perk up. In this new comedy about friends in various stages of relationship envy and regret, there are two: James Van Der Beek and Zoe Lister-Jones. [7 Apr 2014, p.45]
It’s amiably crude and fairly funny, too, but the show will leave some viewers clutching their pearls with jokes tied to masturbation, testicles, defecation, the scent of private parts and oral sex--all in its first episode.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 User Ratings
6.5
60% Positive
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27 Ratings
11% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 45 User Ratings
6.5
60% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
11% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
29% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
The advertisements for this show did not do it justice. I missed the first episode but started with the second and was instantly a fan. Unfortunately the powers that be wouldn't let the show develop the following I am sure was going to happen. Shame on the execs
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SEASON 1
If you like your comedy slathered in crude, this sitcom is catnip. Everyone else will wonder if CBS stopped making shows with recognizable human beings when “Everybody Loves Raymond” went off the air.
The pilot is rough, with much of the humor dealing with sex and male genitalia, which seems like something you would find in a Seth McFarlane show.
Despite the attractive cast, these “Friends” are a mostly nondescript bunch, so much so it wouldn’t be a shock to find that those who initially tune in after the “How I Met Your Mother” finale ultimately decide that this life experience is best left as a one-night stand.
Friends With Better Lives isn’t better than that show or any other half-hour comedy that’s come along in the past five years or so.
[A] wretched new sitcom.
Great show with great writing! I hope CBS makes a smart decision and keeps it. I don't think the dialogue is cheesy at all and the humor is on the darker side. It's so rare when an American show really makes me laugh out loud like this. I can think of four gems: Modern Family, Mom, Mike & Molly, and Two Broke Girls. That's it. The rest ****. Please keep this one!
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SEASON 1
I didn't start watching until episode 3. The commercials made it look uninteresting. I had no plans on watching it. I caught episode 4 on and loved it. i instantly watched the missed episode on demand. This show keeps me laughing. I love it.
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SEASON 1
I'm sure their lives would be much better if they had better writers. I have no problem with sex jokes, but when a show relies on them for all the humor, it gets old fast. It's bad-writing when shows rely on the same thing in every episode. And I usually don't bring this kind of thing up all the time, but how many shows do we need about upper-middle class white people living in LA and NYC? I'm not saying every show has to be a mini United Nations, but come on, this is filmed in LA- one of the most diverse cities in the US. They can do better than one Asian character in one episode for less than 5 minutes. Even minor and background characters are white.
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SEASON 1
This was so bad we changed to Gilligan's Island. Don't get me wrong. We are not prudes. But prime time should offer interesting programming. This show was just vulgarity masqueradeing as humor.
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