Category: Friends

Retrospective episodic reviews of the iconic 1990s sitcom Friends.

Second Look: Friends Season 3 Episode 5 – “The One with Frank Jr.”

Phoebe’s brother visits and Friends puts its cast chemistry on full display in a fun, thoroughly unremarkable episode.

Friends takes on gender roles, 90’s style, to varying degrees of success.

Friends trots out a first draft in the form of a full episode with “The One with the Jam”.

Friends channels its creative resurgence in a terrific bottle episode.

Friends’ third season begins with an enjoyable, surprisingly low-key premiere.

Friends’ season two finale, “The One with Barry and Mindy’s Wedding,” rushes its biggest emotional beats to a somewhat unsatisfying close.

Friends’ “The One with the Chicken Pox” wastes its time on empty subplots, turning Joey into a genuinely unlikable jerk in the process.

“The One with the Two Parties” hints at real emotional depth for Rachel, but Friends buries it under prop gags and cheap physical comedy.

“The One with the Bullies” isn’t Friends at its funniest, but it’s surprisingly sharp on the ways young adults grasp for control.

“The One Where Old Yeller Dies” is a Friends episode with a lot of squandered potential.