Friends
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Random blog day boo yah. As you should know Fridays is random blog day were we talk anything and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on the popular TV Show FRIENDS.
Rachel Green, a sheltered but friendly woman, flees her wedding day and wealthy yet unfulfilling life, and finds childhood friend Monica Geller, a tightly-wound but caring chef. After Rachel becomes a waitress at West Village coffee house Central Perk, she and Monica become room-mates at Monica's apartment located above Central Perk, and Rachel joins Monica's group of single people in their mid 2-s: previous roommate Pheobe Buffay, an eccentric, innocent masseuse; neighbour Joey Tribbianni, a dim-witted yet loyal struggling actor and womanizer; Joey's roommate Chandler Bing, a sarcastic, Self-deprecating IT manager, and her older brother and chandlers college roommate Ross Geller, a sweet-natured but insecure Palaeontologist.
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Early reviews of friends were mixed, the first series held a Metacritic score of 59/100 based on the reviews they received. Tom Feran of The Plain Dealer writing that the series traded “vaguely and less successfully on the hanging-out style of Seinfeld” with Ann Hodges of the Houston Chronicle calling it “the new Seinfeld wannabe, but it will never be as funny as Seinfeld”. Los Angeles Daily News writer Ray Richard named the series as “One of the brighter comedies of the new season” with the Los Angeles Times calling it “Flat-out the best comedy series of the new season”
The cast having decided to maintain the ensemble format often had themselves entered into the same categories for awards. From S8 onwards the cast submitted themselves for lead actor billing rather than support actors. Friends was nominated for sixty two primetime awards winning six of them (1995, 1996, 1999, 2000 and 2003) with Aniston and Kudrow the only members of the cast to win an Emmy with Cox the only one to not be nominated. Friends also went onto win an American Comedy Award, one GLAAD Media Award, one Golden Globe, three Logie Awards, six Peoples Choice Awards, one Satellite award and one Screen Actors Guild Award. Friends also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy series in 2002.
Reviews of the final series were mixed with Robert Bianco of USA Today described the finale as entertaining, satisfying and praised it for deftly mixing emotion and humor while highlighting each of the stars. Aniston and Schwimmer were praised for their acting by Sarah Rodman of the Boston Hereld but did state that their characters reunion was a bit too neat. Ken Parish Perkins writer for Fort Worth Star-Telegram pointed out that the finale was “More touching than comical, more satisfying in terms of closure than Knee-snappingly funny”.
Friends got a sequel spin off called Joey, which follows Joey heading off to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. Despite being heavily promoted and given the friends timeslot of 8pm Thursdays. Joey only lasted two seasons mainly due to a decreasing viewership and ratings.
Season 1
The first season introduces the six main characters who live in New York City: Rachel Green, a waitress; professional chef Monica Geller, her palaeontologist brother, Ross Geller; free spirited masseuse Pheobe Buffay; struggling actor Joey Tribbiani and Ross's college friend, Chandler Bing, whose precise occupation at a corporation is unknown. Rachel arrives at Central Perk, wearing her wedding dress, after leaving her fiance, Barry, an Orthodontist, at the alter. She moves into her high school friend Monica's apartment, and gets a waitress job at Central Perk. Ross, who has had a crush on Rachel since high school, often attempts to declare his feelings doe her. However, many obstacles stand in his way, including his insecurities, Rachel dating an Italian neighbour named Paolo, and the fact that he is expecting a baby with his lesbian ex-wife Carol who gives birth later to Ben later in the season. Joey never has a steady girlfriend and consistently sleeps with a variety of women. Pheobe is a rather quirky and eccentric, mostly due to her mother's suicide when Pheobe was a child and having lived on the streets for a while. However, the gang loves her regardless. Chandler brakes up with his girlfriend, Janice (Maggie Wheeler), only to find himself reconnecting with her throughout the series. Near the end of the season, while Ross is at a palaeontology dig in China, Chandler accidentally lets slip that Ross loves Rachel, who realises she also cares for him. The season ends with Rachel waiting at the airport for Ross, who is returning from China.
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I was five years old when the first season of friends came out and as such (and many thanks to my mother) It was apart of my life from the get-go. It took a rewatch of Season 1 several years later for me to properly watch the series. Both Chandler and Rachel are my favourite characters out of Season 1 and my favourite episode is Episode 18 called “The one with all the Poker”, I love the episode mainly due to the manicness Rachel experiences trying to change jobs and how much Ross changes whilst playing Poker.
Season 2
Rachel greets Ross at the airport only to discover that he has returned with Julie (Lauren Tom),someone he knew from Graduate school. Rachel's attempts to tell Ross that she loves him initially mirror his failed attempts in the first season. After he breaks up with Julie for Rachel, friction between them develops when Rachel discovers Ross's lost of the cons of dating her. They eventually begin a relationship after Rachel sees an old home movie from her and Monica's Prom night and realizes Ross was going to stand in for her Prom Date who nearly stood her up. Monica is promoted to head chef at the Iridium restaurant, then gets fired for accepting gifts from a supplier, which is against Company policy. Needing money she is forced to take an embarrassing job as a waitress at a 1950's style diner. She also begins dating Richard Burke (Tom Selleck), a recently divorced family friend who is 21 years her senior. They eventually break up when Monica realises that Richard, already a father, does not want more children. Joey is cast in a fictional version of the Soap opera, Days of our Lives as neurosurgeon Dr. Drake Ramoray. He moves out of his and Chandler's apartment, forcing Chandler to get a new roommate, Eddie (Adam Goldberg). However, Eddie is annoying and somewhat deranged. When Joey claims in a soap opera magazine interview that he writes many of his own lines, offending the Show's writer his character is killed off. No longer able to afford his expensive new apartment, Joey moves back in with Chandler, kicking Eddie out in the process. In the season finale,Chandler talks to an anonymous woman in an online chat room. When they agree to meet in person, the woman turns out to be Janice.
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My favourite characters in S2 including Chandler (Matthew Perry) are Frank Buffay Jr (Giovanni Ribisi) and Richard Burke (Tom Selleck), the storylines they share with Monica and Pheobe are particularly good in this season. My favourite episode in S2 isE24 “The one with Barry and Mindy's Wedding” the hi-jinks that happen in the episode makes me laugh every time I see them.
Season 3
Season 3 takes on a significantly more serialized format. Chandler and Janice date for several episodes until Joey catches Janice kissing her soon-to-be ex-husband. Not wanting to destroy her family. Chandler urges Janice to go back to her husband, then becomes depressed over the breakup for several episodes. Rachel quits her job at Central Perk and begins working at Bloomingdale's, an upscale department store chain. Ross soon becomes jealous of her colleague Mark. Ross is fustrated by Rachel's long work hours. She is tired of his constant jealousy and insecurity and decides they need a relationship break. Ross hurt and somewhat drunk, immediately sleeps with Chloe, “The hot girl from the Xerox place,” causing Rachel to break up with him fully. Although Pheobe initially believes she has no family except her twin sister Ursula (Lisa Kudrow), she learns she has a half brother Frank Jr (Giovanni Ribisi) and discovers her birth mother Pheobe Abbot (Terri Garr) over the course of the season. Joey falls in love with his acting partner Kate (Dina Meyer), but is jealous of her dating the director of their play. They begin a brief relationship that ends when she takes an acting job in Los Angeles. Monica dates millionaire Pete Becker(John Favreau), despite her initially not being attracted to him. However, she breaks up with him when he is seriously hurt trying to become the Ultimate Fighting Champion and refuses to quit. Pheobe sets Ross up on a date with her friend, Bonnie (Christine Taylor), inciting Rachel's jealousy. She tries to Sabotaging the relationship by coercing Bonnie to shave her head bald, and eventually admits to Ross she still has feelings for him. The season closes with Ross having to choose between Rachel and Bonnie.
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You can tell S3 is when the show starts becoming more serialized, but I definitely have a favourite episode which is E21 “The one with the Chick and the Duck”, Why Joey and Chandler adopt a chick and a Duck I have absolutely no clue BUT it provides another side to both characters as well as some comedy gold. Both Joey and Pheobe join chandler as my favourite Characters this Season. Joey for his antics this season and Pheobe for the family storyline she experiences.
Season 4
in the season 4 premiere, after Ross breaks up with Bonnie, he and Rachel briefly reconcile after Ross pretends to read a long letter that Rachel wrote for him. However Ross continues to insist that the two were on a break when he slept with Chloe, so they break up again. Joey dates Kathy (Paget Brewster), a girl that Chandler has a crush on. Kathy and Chandler later kiss, which causes drama between Chandler and Joey. Joey only forgives Chandler and allows him to date Kathy after Chandler spends Thanksgiving in a box as punishment. Chandler's relationship with Kathy ends after she cheated on him due to an argument. Pheobe looses her job as a masseuse after making out with one of her clients and she accompanies Monica, who has become a caterer for hire. They soon start a catering business together but Monica, after negatively reviewing a restaurant, Allesandro's, is offered the position of Head Chef. Despite being initially pressured by the wrath of her co-workers, monica eventually asserts her dominance in the kitchen. Pheobe becomes a surrogate other for her brother and his wife Alice (Debra Jo Rupp). Monica and Rachel are forced to switch apartments with Joey and Chandler after loosing a bet during a quiz game, but manage to switch back by bribing them with knicks season tickets and a one-minuite kiss (Off-screen) between each other. After her boss dies Rachel is demoted to personal shopping and meets and later dates a customer named Joshua (Tate Donovan). Ross begins dating an English woman named Emily (Helen Baxendale), and they quickly get engaged. Rachel struggles to cope and hastily suggests to Joshua that they marry, after which he rejects her. In the Season Finale, the group, apart from Pheobe and Rachel, travel to Ross and Emily's wedding in London. Chandler and Monica sleep together, and Rachel, realising that she is still in love with Ross, rushes to London to stop Ross and Emily's wedding, but changes her mind when she sees them happy together. While saying his vows, Ross says Rachel;s name at the alter, shocking his bride and the guests.
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This season was a little all over the place especially with Rachel and Ross's relationship however I have two episodes I really like this season, E11 “The one with Pheobe's uterus” and E23/244 “The one with Ross's wedding”. I like these episodes mainly due to Pheobe's storyline of being a surrogate mother and the story line between Ross, Rachel and Emily. My favourite characters this season have been Pheobe, Rachel and Emily.
Season 5
Ross and Emily marry, but an angry and humiliated Emily flees the reception. Rachel soon admits her feelings for Ross, but realising how ridiculous this is, advises him to work on his marriage to Emily. She develops a crush on her neighbour Emily and they date briefly, until she realises that he is too close with his sister. Monica and Chandler try to keep their new relationship a secret from their friends. Pheobe gives birth to triplets, a boy Frank Jr, Jr., and two girls Leslie and Chandler. After weeks of trying to contact her, Emily agrees to reconcile with Ross and move to New York only if he breaks off all contact with Rachel;. Ross agrees, but later attends a dinner with all his friends, Rachel included. Emily phones Ross, discovers Rachel is there, realises she does not trust him and ends their marriage. Ross takes out his anger at work resulting in him being indefinitely suspended form the museum, and he moves in with chandler and Joey until eventually getting a new apartment across the street from them. Rachel gets a new job at Ralph Lauren. Pheobe begins a relationship with a police officer, Gary (), after finding his badge and using it as her own. Monica and Chandler go public with their relationship, to the surprise and delight of their friends. They decide to get married on a trip to Las Vegas, but change their plans after witnessing Ross and Rachel drunkenly stumbling out of the Wedding Chapel.
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This season has two great episodes E3”The one hundredth” and E14 “The one where everyone finds out”, I like E3 for being a great conclusion to Pheobe's surrogacy storyline and E14 is great for the completions to both the hiding of Chandler and Monica's relationship and Ross finally moving on with his life. Pheobe and Ross join chandler as my favourite characters for this season.
Season 6
in the season 6 premiere, Ross and Rachel's marriage turns out to be a drunken mistake that neither remembers until the other friends mention it. Ross promises Rachel he will get them an annulment, then separately does nothing because he cannot face having three failed marriages. By the time Rachel discovers they are still married, an annulment is impossible due to their history; they are forced to get a divorce. After ignoring the numerous signs they should get married, Monica and Chandler move in together forcing Rachel to move in with Phoebe. Joey gets a new roommate, Janine (Elle MacPherson). They develop feelings for each other and date briefly until Janine criticises Monica and Chandler, ending their relationship. After Janine moves out, Joey struggles with paying his bills so he takes a job at Central Perk. He soon lands a role on a cable TV show called Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E, starring alongside a crime-fighting robot. Ross gets a teaching job at New York University. He dates Elisabeth (Alexandra Holden), a student, despite it being against university policy. Elizabeth's father, Paul (Bruce Willis), disproves of Ross but falls for Rachel, and they start dating. Both relationships soon end: Elizabeth is too immature for Ross and previously reserved Paul opens up emotionally and is more than Rachel can handle. Pheobe and Rachel's apartment catches fire, and Rachel moves in with Joey, while Pheobe stays with chandler and Monica, though they later switch. While at a museum that has a two year wait for weddings Monica puts her name on the reservation as a joke. When Chandler intercepts the museums phone call about a cancellation, he panics; however Chandler has been planning to propose while pretending he may never want to marry. While dining at a fancy restaurant Chandler's planned proposal is subverted by Monica's ex-boyfriend Richard Burke,w ho unexpectedly shows up. Richard later tells Monica he wants to marry her and have children. Monica becomes upset at Chandler believing his ruse about not wanting to marry. Chandler believes Monica has left him until he comes home to find their apartment decorated with candles and her waiting to propose to him. When she becomes to emotional to continue, Chandler proposes and she says yes.
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E15 & E16 “The one that could have been” and E24 & E25 “The one with the proposal” are my favorate episodes this season, due to seeing the evolution of Chandler and Monica's relationship going tot he next level (E24 & E25) and finding out an alternative storyline if several factors never happened (E15 & E16). Alternative storyline Pheobe joins Chandler as favourite characters this season
Season 7
The seventh season mainly follows Monica and Chandler as they plan their wedding amid various problems. Joey's Television series, Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E is cancelled, but he is offered his old role on days of our lives; the show is ret-conned with the revelation that Dr. Drake Ramoray has been in a four year coma and is revived with a brain transplant from another character. Pheobe's repaired apartment now has one large bedroom instead of the original two, so Rachel permanently stays at Joey's. Rachel is promoted at Ralph Lauren and impulsively hires a young assistant, Tag Jones (Eddie Cahill), based on his looks, passing over a more qualified woman. Tag discovers her feelings for him at thanksgiving dinner and they begin dating, hiding it form Co-Workers. However, on her 30th Birthday, Rachel ends their relationship, realising Tag is too young and immature, particularly if she intends to follow her marriage schedule. Hours before Monica and Chandler's wedding ceremony, Chandler panics and goes into hiding just as Pheobe and Rachel find a positive pregnancy test in Monica and chandlers bathroom. They assume Monica is pregnant . Ross and phoebe find chandler and convince him to return for the ceremony, though he briefly bolted again after overhearing phoebe and Rachel discussing the pregnancy test. He quickly returns, embracing the idea of fatherhood. After the ceremony, Monica denies she's pregnant; unbeknownst to everyone, the positive pregnancy test is Rachel's.
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My favourite characters from this season are Hank Azaria's character David, Maggie Wheeler's Janice and as usual Chandler. My favourite episode in this season is EP's 23 and 24 The one with Monica and Chandler's Wedding (169 and 170 overall) mainly for the chaos this particular wedding brings and the setting up of Rachel's Pregnancy for next season.
Season 8
Season 8 beings at Monica and Chandler's wedding reception. Pheobe and Monica discover Rachel's pregnancy and convince her to take another test to confirm it. Pheobe initially claims the test is negative, badly disappointing Rachel, then reveals its positive, saying Rachel now knows how she really feels about having a baby. Ross is eventually revealed to be the father, and the season revolves around Rachel's pregnancy. Ross and Rachel agree to be co-parents without resuming their romantic relationship; Ross begins dating Mona (Bonnie Somerville. Joey takes Rachel out to quell her fears about motherhood, and realises he has romantic feelings for her. While suppressing his feelings, Joey encourages Rachel to stay at Ross's apartment so he can be involved in the pregnancy. The arrangement is too much for Mon, and she breaks up with Ross. Joey tells Ross about his feelings for Rachel, Ross initially is angry, then gives his blessing. Joey tells Rachel he loves her, but she realizes she does not feel the same way, and they remain friends. When Rachel goes into Labour, Ross's mother gives him a family heirloom and encourages him to propose to Rachel. Ross hesitates, and puts the ring into his jacket,which he later leaves in Rachel's room. After Monica jokes about having kids she and chandler decide to have a baby, starting while they are still at the hospital. After a prolonged labour, during which numerous other expectant mothers, including Janice are taken tot he delivery room Rachel gives birth to Emma. She is left saddened and afraid after Janice later says that Ross my not always be there for her and the baby. When Joey comforts Rachel, the ring falls from Ross's jacket to the floor. Joey kneels to pick it up, and Rachel, believing he is proposing, impulsively says yes. Meanwhile, Ross intends to ask Rachel if she wants to resume their relationship
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My favourite episode from S8 is E13 where Chandler's opinion on bubble baths is changed. Its my belief you see Chandlers actor Matthew Perry, really show off his acting skills. The other actors/characters that I really enjoy this season are Rachel/Jennifer Aniston, Bonnie Somerville as Mona and Alec Baldwin as Parker.
Season 9
Season nine begins with Ross and Rachel cohabiting with their daughter Emma, after Joey and Rachel clear up the proposal misunderstanding. Monica and Chandler run into obstacles as they try for a baby: Chandler unknowingly agrees to a work transfer to Tulsa just as Monica is being offered a head chef job at a new restaurant, Javu, resulting in Chandler commuting back and forth. After being apart from Monica during Christmas, chandler quits to pursue a new career in advertising, starting as an unpaid intern at an ad agency, and eventually being hired as a junior copywriter. Finally Monica and Chandler discover they are physically incompatible to conceive and after considering multiple options, decide to adopt. Pheobe begins dating Mike Hannigan (Paul Rudd) for most of the season until mike says he doesn't want to marry again. Pheobe dates ex-boyfriend from season 1, David (Hank Azaria) who plans on proposing to her, but mike proposes first. Pheobe rejects both but gets back together with mike, only needing the reassurance that they have a future together. Rachel, believing that her Co-worker Gavin (Dermot Mulroney) is trying to steal her job while on maternity leave,returns to Ralph Lauren early. She discovers at her birthday party that Gavin has feelings for her. They kiss but do not pursue a relationship due to her history with Ross. Meanwhile, Ross, having seen the kiss, retaliates by dating other women. After realising that her and Ross's living situation is too weird, Rachel and Emma move in with Joey. Rachel develops a crush on him, only to be disheartened when he starts dating Charlie (Aisha Tyler), a new paleontology professor who Ross is attracted to. In the finale, the group travels to Barbados for Ross's Keynote speech at a conference. Joey and Charlie break up upon realising they have nothing in common. Joey then learns about Rachel's feelings for him, but says they cannot pursue this because of Ross. However, upon seeing Ross and Charlie kiss each other, he goes to Rachel's hotel room and the finale ends with with them kissing.
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In my opinion the best episode of S9 was E22 “The one with the Doner” mainly due to how they dealt with Chandler and Monica's inability to have kids and show what other options for having kids are. The inability to have kids storyline through S9 definitely shows how good at Acting Matthew Perry and Courtney Cox are. I also love Aisha Tyler (Of criminal Minds and Whose Line Is It Anyway) as Charlie Wheeler and Freddie Prince Jr as Sandy the male nanny.
Season 10
the tenth season brings several long-running storylines to a close. Joey and Rachel try to contend with Ross's feelings about their relationship, decide it is best they remain friends. Charlie breaks up with ross to get back with her ex-boyfriend. Mid-season Joey officiates Pheobe and Mike's wedding outside Central Perk when a snow storm paralyses the city, preventing them and guests getting to the wedding venue. Monica and Chandler are chosen by Erica (Anna Faris) to adopt her baby. Following this Monica and Chandler prepare to move to a house in the suburbs to raise their family, saddening everyone, particularly Joey, who is coping with all the changes in his life. In the series finale, Erica gives birth to fraternal twins, much to Monica and Chandler's surprise. Rachel is fired from Ralph Lauren after her boss happens to overhear her interviewing for a job at Gucci. She encounters her former Bloomingdale co-worker mike who offers her a new job at Louis Vuitton in Paris. Ross believing Rachel wants to stay, tries bribing Mr. Zellner to rehire her until he realises Rachel wants to go to Paris. When Rachel says a tearful Goodbye to everyone except Ross at her going away party, Ross, hurt and angry confronts Rachel, and they end up sleeping together. Rachel leaves, and Ross realising how much he loves Rachel- chases her to the airport. When he reaches her Rachel says she has to go to Paris. Before the plane takes off, Rachel calls Ross's home phone and leaves a voice mail, apologising for the way it ended. While speaking she realises that she loves him too, and gets of the plane at the last minute. The series ends with all the friends, plus Monica and Chandler's new babies, leaving the empty apartment together for a final cup of coffee at Central Perk. The show ends first with a shot over everyone's keys to Monica and Chandler's apartment left on the counter top, and then pans to a shot of the apartment's purple door.
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It was hard the first time to watch S10 of friends due to knowing it wouldn't be airing new episodes however the posting of Friends on other channels in syndicate definitely dulled the pain somewhat, and enacts a note of nostalgia whenever watched. My favourite episodes this season are E9 “The one with the birth mother” this is because its a foreclosure to Monica and Chandler's adoption storyline and has one of Chandlers best emotional moments in it and E17 and E18, “The last one”, this is due to being the last two episodes of the entire Friends empire and shows how much the characters mean to each other and how life will go on elsewhere and in other ways. All the main characters were on my list of favourites, this season, mainly due -I think- it being the last season and the cast giving it their all.
On November 12th 2019 It was announced by The Hollywood Reporter that a Friends reunion would be developed by Warner Bros TV to be featured on HBO Max. The Cast and creators were set to return and feature in the show with HBO on February 21st 2020 confirming that the unscripted reunion was named 'The one where they got back together'. However due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, It was announced by March 18th that it would be postponed indefinitely.
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