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I loved this show. I can't believe it got canceled.

Watched it in one sitting and boy what can I say ? It sure doesn't seem like the most original concept at first but nothing is these days is it?I admit I've been trying to find a show in this particular genre for some time and nothing has quite caught my attention but I would definitely recommend Friends from College over any other recent "pieces" of TV I've seen. The execution is perfect, the cast just clicks and my only complain would be how fast it ended. Can't wait for more of this - Enjoy.

People keep saying the characters aren't likable...but neither are a lot of people in real life. When you think about it, we all know a cheater or someone who refuses to grow up. It's an easy to watch show, with a few giggles and some tears. I got through it quickly so I must have thought it was decent enough to entertain me for a few hours. I'm even looking forward to another season. Not the best show but I didn't expect it to be.

Although it's extremely immoral, this is a funny, funny comedy and drama. Maybe that was the point in all of it.

The cast in this was stellar and I truly enjoyed keeping up with the chaos of each character and their relationships.

A classic, and underrated, comedy and drama.

I struggle to understand why critics don't enjoy this comedy as much as I do. One criticism I've heard is that none of the characters are nice people and are therefore unlikable. I disagree, there isn't a character in it I don't like, yes most of them do questionable things, make bad decisions or act inappropriately, but it makes the great television. If they were all nice people we'd end up with something annoyingly sickly sweet like This Is Us. The comedy is dry/dark but I love this programme and I really hope the more people watch it and it gets a third series

The world doesn't need another show about Ivy League alums living in unrealistically big homes in and around New York City. Although I appreciated the skilled acting from most of the cast, and definitely laughed out loud a few times, this show's just so out of touch.

I didn't get the friend chemistry or understand how a group of people who are all so mean to each other could have kept their "friend group" going so long. I also didn't appreciate how the married characters take center stage while their apparently pathetic single friends are basically mere doormats who lend a helping hand (or drugs or fold-out couch) when needed.

The writers just missed so many opportunities to be relevant here, and settled for a slightly raunchier, darker spin on well-worn ground. It's reasonably funny, well-acted, some somewhat clever, but watching it just feels like a waste of time when there is much fresher material available in this Golden Age of TV.

My God I never write reviews for series but just finished season two and it is SO GOOD! Haven't laughed this hard in ages... very good writing and the actors also do a great job. Unexpected success!

I loved it and devoured it in one day! There were laughs and tears sometimes a bit of cheesiness but overalls great depiction of mid life crisis! I found the characters being stuck in their college days a bit overdone at times. Some of the friends had children and corporate jobs and still were most excited when riding a party bus for wine tasting. That part of the show saved it from a 10 - too much reliance on laughter of never growing up.

This is not a show about a group of friends, it's the Keegan-Michael Key show. If you like watching him in other things, you may like this. I might even hop on board with you except his character is morally bankrupt and unlikeable. And not in a hyperbolic (and actually funny) Always Sunny kind of way.

A good portion of the cast feels like pure window dressing (I'm looking at you, Marianne and Nick). You don't have to recreate Friends, but at least in that show everyone had their own narrative, things they wanted and didn't want, etc. Half the people in this show just feel like props in Ethan's life, which just makes the whole thing ring hollow for me. The further you get from his immediate circle of interest, the less round and substantive the characters are, which is a sign of bad writing.

If you can squeeze a laugh out of Melissa McCarthy saying one over the top thing after another, you might find the humour in this show funny. One of the only parts that made me laugh was the comments about Ethan's book because they were similar to how I felt watching the show. Boring. I hate it sooo much.

Funny, awkward and easy to watch. Highly recommend! Bring on Season 3!!!

This show can be wildly entertaining and clever. It can also be straight up dumb. Kudos to the set designers, location scouts and costumers. I want their clothes. I want to visit their places. I want to live in their dwellings (except Ethan's gross apartment and Nick's "funboy" sign of course). The acting and comedic timing is generally spot-on, although Keegan can be annoying. Fred Savage and Billy Eichner are stellar. At first I was thinking that casting Eichner as the "straight man" was a waste, but there's actually something brilliant about this decision to cast against type. He doesn't play the dead-pan shouting guy that he usually does. His performance is understated and still hilarious. The whole cast give stellar performances and gel together. The character actors are all super funny and talented. The one thing that was uneven and somewhat distracting in the first season was the writing. It could veer into ridiculousness. But when the writing is on, it's ON and SO funny! The send-up of WASPY types with Sarah Chalke was lol-funny. The whole episode had a Woody Allen feel to it. It was a Merrill and Morgan fest!

Although some elements could be tweaked, I would recommend this show.

This show started kind of good. That lasted about 5 minutes before descending into juvenile over the top situations that were totally without humour. The acting was terrible especially Keegan Michael- whose idea of comedy is mugging for the camera. All the characters except those of Fred Savage and Gregg Germann were extremely unlikeable. They can act but have such little to work with. Must be an embarrassment for them. My wife said it best , "This is just annoying". One review said they couldn't understand the critics negative reviews - I cannot understand the positive reviews here. For once I agree w the critics. Spare the world a 3rd season. We deleted this turkey from My List in Netflix and went on to The Kominsky Method and found a clever, subtly funny and well acted series.

A group of friends who went to Havard together are followed through their entangled lives. The fact is that this group hasn't drifted apart as most would over the twenty years since leaving college, instead they have become so close-knit that others from outside can feel excluded.

We mostly follow Ethan, a writer who starts out with accolades, but not so many readers, his long-suffering agent, Max, his childless wife Lisa, and his long-term, on-off mistress, Samantha (Sam). All these are from the college group, together with womanising Nick and hippy Marianne. The characters are well-drawn and well acted, with quirks and flaws. A few episodes in and you start to feel you know how they should react to a situation and how they feel.

There are also partners and spouses from outside the central group. They mostly come and go - it's probably fair to say that all these resent how close the Havard types have become.

As things start out, Ethan's publishers are applying a great deal of pressure for him to transition to something a little more commercial, like young adult (YA) fiction, while Ethan and Sam feel rather uncomfortable with both now living in New York. They're right under the noses of Lisa and Sam's insanely wealthy and slightly boring husband, Jon.

Unlike most others here, I preferred the first series to the second. A few episodes in the second series started to feel to me too much that events and characters were being manipulated to fit into a plot that had been planned out for them in a group workshop. The kind of session that Max and Ethan have when Max is offering rather more support than an agent would normally give.

Don't let the low rating put you off! I loved the show, it can make you laugh out loud and cry and the characters show the complexities of real life people who can be good and bad all at the same time.

Liked season 1, loved season 2, binge watched it last night and I was hysterically laughing throughout every episode. I don't understand the bad reviews? The entire cast was great. Quick and witty.

I don't have really strong feelings about this series after one episode, but I know I'm not interested in watching it anymore. I laughed some, but not a lot. And the characters didn't seem especially interesting.

For me a big issue was the series focusing on two of the character's affair. This seems like a possibility for a drama, but in a comedy it seems a little creepy. Their having an affair, they're doing it under their loving spouses noses, and they're friends with those spouses so they're lying to them to. Either get a divorce and marry each other or knock it off. What's wrong with you people?!

I don't know why this bothers me so much. I understand the power of sexual desire, I don't have as strong a moral revulsion to cheating than most of the people I know, and yet, a show trying to get laughs out of this sort of deceit seems just kind of awful to me.

It was hard to get invested in this show when all of the main characters were such terrible people. The acting was fairly good but the storylines felt repetitive. The humor was there in most episodes, but was overshadowed by the attempt at being an emotionless drama .

Few laugh out loud moments. these people are so weird, I love it. reminds me of New Girl so if you like that kind of thing, give this a watch.

This was probably funny in its day, but in a post pandemic, climate crisis, BLM world, it just seems wasteful. People with every possibility for great lives (Harvard grads) just seem to waste a lot of time by making really bad decisions in their personal lives. Perhaps that's the point. But hard to care.

Some comic moments are well structured, and definitely made me laugh, I do really want to know what happens to each person; but it's so hard to believe that everyone in this friend group is emotionally stunted and can't mature past the emotional games of high school and college. Everybody in your friend group can't be an immature jackass.

A few additional characters (maybe parents?) to show how spoiled, privileged and banal these characters are would have rounded out the story and probably gotten them a third and fourth season.