Season 1 – Friends From College

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L. F Feb 28 It's not perfect and probably would've benefited from a bit more workshopping, but it's still a fun, easy watch. Some of the friendships don't ring true at all (e.g. Lisa and Marianne) and you're never really sure why they still hang out with each other, but the show still has plenty of funny bits and relatable sad bits to keep it afloat. See more Daniel S. @OhBillyDontBeStupid Jan 31 How could anyone leave this show anything less than 5 stars is beyond me! I laughed like crazy, and teared up more times than I'd care to admit. FRED SAVAGE KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK! Then again, so did the entire cast. The soundtrack was phenomenal, particularly for this late GenXer. Well done, ladies and gents. Be proud. See more remond c @neoderthal Jan 15 I discovered this show in 2026 .I think it wasn’t available in Canada before that. I really loved the humor and the craziness of the show, as well as the bonds between the friends and the actors. I binge-watched it, and when I reached the end of season 2, I was terribly disappointed to see that Netflix had canceled it years earlier… Netflix always cancels all the shows I love See more Ramona Z @RamonaZee Jan 10 I joined RT just to rate this show. It's one of my all time favorites and I just can't believe it didn't get a third season. Shame on you Netflix! The writers absolutely NAILED the hilarious dynamics that happen within college friend groups (with a bit more drama added for television). The ACTORS are incredible. Each one's comedic timing is perfect, with Nat Faxon (an actor whom I wouldn't even know of otherwise) and (OMG) Fred Savage being the real stand outs for me. The college humor they bring into their adult lives is perfect. I'm 55 now and still have that ridiculous, silly and completely immature banter ONLY when I see the college friend group. Every episode of this show made me laugh hard, even when the situations got real and complex. Added thumbs up for Smulders and Key's Fred Schneider impressions, and the writers for even thinking of that! Perfect show for Gen x. Thanks for making it! See more Don M Dec 24 It’s clever and funny. I really enjoyed this , the writing and humour is well thought out. It’s Absolutely worth a watch. See more KaraVaggio x Sep 6 I first-time saw and binge-watched this last year, loved it, then I put it on last weekend, and thought it was even better this time! Great show. Unlike "GIRLS" (which I hated and hate), I found these characters in "Friends from College" (who are similarly all New Yorkers coming from some privilege, and existing in a moral grey area as they try to find themselves) to be relatable. I think they hit a successful combination of tragic and funny, and unlike the formerly mentioned show, they were not just annoying, cliché and monstrously narcissistic. They, instead, were each respectively going through midlife crisis problems, and then, like the fates commanded it, circumstance put them all back together at this crisis point and tested them. That is a great premise for a "show about nothing" type show. My biggest 2 complaints and why I wish there was a third season: 1 is that we never get an episode delving deeper into the Marianne character, we don't even know her major at Harvard and I wonder: did she go to Julliard /get an MFA in theater after such a prestigious undergrad? Or at Harvard, did she major in Engineering or Computer Science or Pre-Med track, as so many Asian/Immigrant parents pressure their children to do, but had a life-changing event after undergrad that made her decide she was going to pursue Theater? We don't get an iota of personal backstory to inform who her character is, in the way we do with the other non-married-couple character, Nick. 2. I am disappointed we are not shown the affair between Ethan and Sam being exposed. When season 2 begins, we realize we have flashed-forward to months later in the aftermath, setting up the viewers to immediately wonder how it happened. Then, disappointingly, after watching the entire second season, the characters never even reference HOW the affair was outted, conversationally, and the writers never answer the question they set us up to ask. That is so rude--this isn't an art film, ambiguity is not the name of the game, here! So, really the show is more of a 3.5/4 star show, but I'm giving it an extra star because it's an underdog, and was critically panned and also for being so much better on the re-watch in 2025 -- that is rare! As far as the low critic score: I want to know if they were viewing it as one long movie per season (binge watching) in the way I was. I truly think it wouldn't be as interesting if I had to wait for new episodes, weekly. It functions best pretending it's two long movies not two 8-epsiode seasons. I don't know how it was initially released but it would've been a good candidate for uploading the entire season at-once. See more Read all reviews

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