Friends From College

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 14, 2017
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
44

Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 31
  3. Negative: 12 out of 31
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Critic Reviews

  1. Reason.com
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Jul 14, 2017
    80
    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.
  2. Collider
    Reviewed by: Chris Cabin
    Jul 11, 2017
    80
    Friends from College boasts a confidence that what looks like immorality is often just a vaguely more respectable form of immaturity.
  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Jul 13, 2017
    70
    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.
  5. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Nathan Frontiero
    Jul 11, 2017
    63
    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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User Score
5.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 63 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 63
  2. Mixed: 19 out of 63
  3. Negative: 13 out of 63
  1. eagleeyeviking
    Jul 15, 2017
    4
    Friends From College is a dramedy that doesn’t work. Considering the characters are Harvard alumni, all of their actions and dialogue areFriends From College is a dramedy that doesn’t work. Considering the characters are Harvard alumni, all of their actions and dialogue are completely uncharacteristic. The drama, which strangely only focuses on the two most unlikeable characters, has some high points early on that deal with infertility, but otherwise the whole ‘cheating’ arc is stupid. The comedy is 90% awkward, 10% funny situations. In the end, you are left with only 1 question: How are these people even friends, let alone couples?… Full Review »
  2. zettacritic
    Jul 27, 2017
    10
    This show is absurdly funny. The first episode had a scene between Fred Savage and Keenan Michael-Key that was so funny and perfectly scriptedThis show is absurdly funny. The first episode had a scene between Fred Savage and Keenan Michael-Key that was so funny and perfectly scripted and executed, I watched it several times. The group dynamics took a while to mesh, but by the second episode, I was rolling in laughter and love for this group of misguided, hilarious, flawed friends. Fred Savage is a subtle beast, his comedic timing perfected. Keegan Michael-Key is so acutely funny that I woke my sleeping baby from laughing. Watch this and you will be joyful that you did.… Full Review »
  3. ALLCAPS
    Jul 18, 2017
    6
    This is the kind of show you put on in the background and don't think too much about. It's a theme of the show that the characters are stuckThis is the kind of show you put on in the background and don't think too much about. It's a theme of the show that the characters are stuck acting like college kids rather than the adults they are, but in reality they act more like high-schoolers. Yeah, a lot of their actions don't really make sense and they are all pretty shallowly written characters, but if you're looking for some mindless drama there will be some of that.

    Some of the skits are laugh out loud funny. The problem is though, this is a tv show, not snl meaning a lot of these scenes won't flow well or create weird character traits giving the show some continuity trouble.

    Is this show good? No, but when I watched it I was in the mood for some mindless tv and that's exactly what I got. It's a fine binge watch show but not much else.    … Full Review »
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