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5
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15
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Critic Reviews
Jul 14, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The script, when it's going for laughs, is absolutely riotous. The scenes taking place in the frat-boy bullpen at Lisa's new hedge fund office—favorite on-going prank: during conversations with SEC compliance officers, they mute their end of the call, then drop trou and rub their junk on the phone—are pee-your-pants hilarious.
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IndieWireJan 11, 2019
Season 2 Review:
By the end of the season, when the group has faced its own self-destructive tendencies and lived to gather again for dinner, the last-minute twists and turns actually carry some weight. ... Consider it the “most improved” show of 2019, even if the year is still young.
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Jul 13, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The palpable weight of the past and nostalgia is a theme to which I, and probably many other viewers of a certain age, can undoubtedly relate. It resonated with me enough to make me keep watching Friends From College, and to even connect to some of it, while also wondering how much better this series might have been if the volume on its characters and situations had been turned down just a little lower.
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Jul 11, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Creators Francesco Delbanco and Nicholas Stoller rely too often on their performers' sketch-comedy and sitcom experience to craft amusing situations that seem natural even at their most ridiculous. But no amount of charisma can revitalize the season as it ambles toward its finale, bloated with so many gags that it unravels like old friendships strained to their breaking point.
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TV Guide MagazineJul 6, 2017
Season 1 Review:
As the tone of College shifts from slapstick to seriocomic in a series of cringe-inducing set pieces of social awkwardness, you may grow dizzy from the love-or-hate-them seesaw. [10-23 Jul 2017, p.13]
IndieWireJul 14, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Friends From College is a mess. It’s a messy story with messy structuring and messy characters, and while the last point may sound like an attribute for a mature adult comedy about aging, relationships, and responsibilities, be warned: These characters won’t stimulate fresh thought or delight you with their quirks. ... Brief, random bits of their inherent charm pop up, but they’re almost instantly squashed by circumstance or a quick cut to the next scene.
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Jul 12, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The show and the characters try to wedge the sitcom schtick into the dark reality of maturity and vice versa and the show and the characters fail. There are effective beats of drama in Ethan and Lisa's fertility saga and they're constantly undermining or getting undermined by comedy. The fictional characters, actual human life and the overall world of Friends From College are often working on three different levels, which may be exactly the kind of show that Friends From College is aspiring to be.
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Jun 28, 2017
Season 1 Review:
At the very least, Friends from College manages to have its fair share of funny moments, especially when getting into a consistent flow of levity. It’s just a shame that these scenes often sidestep into intentionally cringe-inducing drama that needs a better evaluation of the stakes.
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Jul 12, 2017
Season 1 Review:
A promising generational sitcom that might have had something to offer its target audience of middle-aged folks raised on Friends but squanders all of our interest with mirthless, misguided strategies for holding it. The only spectacle it offers is the shocking magic trick of turning a bright, dazzling cast into a bunch of dim bulbs.
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Jul 13, 2017
Season 1 Review:
While it’s the type of series that seems like it will click instantly, the result is shallow and grating. Episodes rely on cheap jokes that feel outdated (an obsession with poking at Twilight) or too cringeworthy and crude to be funny (a hedge-fund bro using his genitals to control a speakerphone).
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Jan 11, 2019
Season 2 Review:
The thorough unfunniness of the season validates the judgment of viewers who were immediately drawn to its cast and subsequently repelled by its everything else. .... It is uneasy about taking itself seriously. The problem is that it can’t take itself ridiculously either.
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Jul 11, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Along with the show’s inability to find a consistent comic tone or a memorable story line (it leans heavily on the usual choices: marital infidelity, light class envy, fertility issues), Friends From College makes embarrassingly poor use of a cast that deserves to be in a better show.
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