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Friends Reviews - Metacritic
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  • 1994
  • TV-PG
  • NBC
  • 1994
  • TV-PG
  • 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-PG
  • NBC
  • 1994
  • TV-PG
  • NBC

Friends

10 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Sep 22, 1994
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
65
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 2,179 User Ratings
8.7
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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

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
65
54% Positive
13 Reviews
33% Mixed
8 Reviews
13% Negative
3 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
65
54% Positive
13 Reviews
33% Mixed
8 Reviews
13% Negative
3 Reviews

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100
Jun 12, 2013
This series has become as dependably amusing as any show on television.
By Ken Tucker FULL REVIEW
90
Feb 27, 2013
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]
By Howard Rosenberg

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Universal Acclaim Based on 2,179 User Ratings
8.7
90% Positive
1966 Ratings
3% Mixed
72 Ratings
6% Negative
141 Ratings

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User Score
Universal Acclaim Based on 2,179 User Ratings
8.7
90% Positive
1966 Ratings
3% Mixed
72 Ratings
6% Negative
141 Ratings

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10
BroadTS
Aug 23, 2024
From a young age, my parents recommended this show to me as one of their childhood classics, and I was immediately hooked. The unique personalities between the main cast lead to some very interesting episodes and events happening, with the entire series feeling like a story of regular people finding love and success in their lives. Some jokes can be cheap and expected, but will still make you laugh because of the incredible delivery of the carefully selected actors. There are also many catchphrases that the characters will say which get you hooked and makes you feel a connection to them, whether it be Joey's "how you doing?" or Phoebe's "oh no-", it makes you feel like you're connected when you hear their phrases repeated and scattered across the show. Each series feels like a large build-up to a huge event at the end, whether it be the birth of a child, a marriage or a huge discovery, and they never disappoint. Looking back on it, I've never quite laughed and smiled at a piece of media as much as this one. An amazing show that should be cherished forever.
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10
juliee_xs
Jul 11, 2024
Como uma fã de Friends, entendo o porque muitas pessoas param na primeira temporada haha reassistindo o programa pela décima vez, é notório que as piadas são sem graça, os atores ainda entrando no personagem, principalmente, na minha visão o Chandler e a Phoebe. A partir da segunda temporada temos uma das melhores séries que existem!
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80
Feb 27, 2013
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]
By Ken Parish Perkins
70
Feb 27, 2013
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]
By Ed Bark
50
Jul 12, 2013
The trouble with "Friends" is that Cox is not strong enough as a comedian. [5 Sep 1994]
By Marvin Kitman
40
Feb 27, 2013
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]
By Barry Garron
0
Feb 27, 2013
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]
By Tom Shales
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10
qaminniemouse
Mar 8, 2024
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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6
borannogay
Feb 1, 2024
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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4
Caldan
Nov 14, 2020
️50% I was never and probably never will be a fan of this show. Really overrated in my opinion.
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3
RefinedInsights
Aug 21, 2023
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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gaudycottonwood
Nov 21, 2020
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-PG
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Awards

Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 10 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 6 Wins & 62 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 12 Wins & 55 Nominations

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