Second Look: Friends Season 1, Episode 8 – “The One Where Nana Dies Twice”
Friends puts on its Seinfeld suit for a mostly effective half hour.
Category: Friends
Retrospective episodic reviews of the iconic 1990s sitcom Friends.
Second Look: Friends Season 1, Episode 7 – “The One with the Blackout”
Friends delivers its best episode yet with the synergistic “The One with the Blackout”.
Second Look: Friends Season 1, Episode 6 – “The One with the Butt”
Friends pushes its characters – and itself – outside of its early comfort zones in a half hour of necessary growing pains.
Second Look: Friends Season 1, Episode 5 – “The One with the East German Laundry Detergent”
Friends’s fifth episode is its weakest yet.
Second Look: Friends Season 1, Episode 4 – “The One with George Stephanopoulos”
Friends tries to strike a balance between cheese and poignancy in its fourth episode.
Second Look: Friends Season 1, Episode 3 – “The One with the Thumb”
Chandler’s smoking habit sets the stage for an early standout Friends episode.
Second Look: Friends Season 1, Episode 2 – “The One with the Sonogram at the End”
Friends’s second episode does a decent job juggling its many still-developing stories and characters.
Second Look: Friends Season 1, Episode 1 – “The Pilot”
Friends’ first episode is an strong introduction to an iconic series.