This has been an ongoing trend, but Ten furthers the show’s unstoppable broadening while also claiming to progress its characters, making for the only year where the emotional development of Friends’ regulars isn’t a legitimate tonic for how they are otherwise written. (Remember, we’re not asking for total realism - just fidelity in character.) At this point, we’re with these Friends to the end, but had they not had such a bank of emotional support, then what is offered here in Ten - episodically - would be enough to warrant disconnection. ![]() As we saw last week, Nine suffers for the unfortunate regression, progression, and regression of character arcs due to the show’s second mid-year renewal, but Ten, the third and final year considered Friends’ last, doesn’t have a comparable excuse for its major shortcomings - most of which, to a degree worse than anything thus far, deal with characterizations that are broad beyond belief, challenging the audience’s investment by straining the emotional truths necessary to support the rom-com tone and accompanying narrative clichés. įriends stars JENNIFER ANISTON as Rachel Green, COURTENEY COX as Monica Geller, LISA KUDROW as Phoebe Buffay, MATT LeBLANC as Joey Tribbiani, MATTHEW PERRY as Chandler Bing, and DAVID SCHWIMMER as Ross Geller.Īlthough I think one could argue that several different seasons of Friends are its finest, I’m more steadfast in my belief that there’s only one weakest. ![]() The entire series has been released on DVD, Blu-ray, and is streamable on several online platforms. ![]() Welcome to Sitcom Tuesday and the conclusion of our coverage on the best of Friends (1994-2004, NBC), one of the most popular American television comedies of the past 30 years.
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