EPISODE
SEASON
Friends - Season 1
Rachel absconds her fiance at the altar and decides to move in with her old friend Monica after meeting the gang in the coffee place ';Central Perk.'; Monica, meanwhile, sleeps with Paul the Wine Guy, and Ross is reeling from his divorce from Carol, who has become a lesbian.
9 December 1957, Ogden, Utah, USA
2 April 1964, Spokane, Washington, USA
26 April 1965, Huntington Beach, California, USA
24 October 1957, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
19 October 1966, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
12 March 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 June 1970, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
20 February 1973, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
12 March 1962, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
1 February 1965, Detroit, Michigan, USA
7 January 1953, Seattle, Washington, USA
10 March 1944, San Francisco, California, USA
28 December 1970, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
24 April 1960, Los Angeles, California, USA
14 July 1960, Dolton, Illinois, USA
18 June 1974, Livingston, New Jersey, USA
November 15, 2017
All six of the principals, especially Cox and Schwimmer, appear resourceful and display sharp sitcom skills. But even the best tightrope walkers need dependable rigging.
November 28, 2017
The show's saving grace is that as the weeks go by, the characters begin to grow on you. That has more to do with the actors' animation than it does with the rimshot writing.
November 15, 2017
In Friends the crowd is always around to share their latest personal woes or offer a shoulder to cry on. But who would want advice from these dysfunctional morons, with their obsessive pop-culture references?
November 15, 2017
NBC has flat-out the best comedy series of the new season in Friends.
November 15, 2017
There's a sustaining humor at work on the new NBC entry Friends.
November 15, 2017
Friends isn't a sitcom. It's a soapcom, a soap opera masquerading as a situation comedy.
November 15, 2017
It's a very strong cast...Schwimmer and Cox are the pick of the litter.
November 15, 2017
The clever series stars an appealing group of actors who are just a bit funnier and better-looking than your average friend.
November 15, 2017
Unlike Ellen and Seinfeld, which pride themselves on exploring the trivial, Friends wants to be about something-which I suppose is its attempt to be a deeper, more poignant show. It isn't, not yet anyway.
December 04, 2017
What draws me back to Friends again and again are the characters themselves, and how they build, as you say, from those archetypes to something potentially more fleshed-out.
