Friends From College

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 14, 2017
Season #: 2, 1
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
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  1. JMaz
    Aug 18, 2017
    9
    I really think the average score this show is getting is off the mark. Is it perfect? no. Is it hilarious? YES!
    I'm sorry but i love these characters and i think the show is a riot. Please give me more Fred Savage and Ike Barinholtz. I have not laughed that hard in a while.
  2. bamababe
    Aug 2, 2017
    8
    I don't know why its getting such bad reviews?!?! i watched season 1 in a few days and thought it was really good!!! no, the characters aren't what i would call "great people", but since when does a good show have to have that?!?!? (seinfeld anyone?!?!)....Fred Savage was fantastic and Billy Eichner's Felix was amazing...hope they continue with a second season!! i think they might be ableI don't know why its getting such bad reviews?!?! i watched season 1 in a few days and thought it was really good!!! no, the characters aren't what i would call "great people", but since when does a good show have to have that?!?!? (seinfeld anyone?!?!)....Fred Savage was fantastic and Billy Eichner's Felix was amazing...hope they continue with a second season!! i think they might be able to find their audience doing that!!! some of us think **** people being funny is good tv!!!… Expand
  3. 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 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 comedicThis 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.… Expand
  4. AylenMagide
    Jul 15, 2017
    7
    I think the show would've been worse with other actors. Cobie Smulders and Keegan Michael Key is the most redeemable of the entire program. It´s not the best, but to have a break is not bad,
  5. EludiumQ36
    Mar 18, 2019
    9
    If you liked 1990's "Friends" then you'll love "Friends from College" (FFC). It's like "Friends" amped up, and "R" rated. There's alot of comically dysfunctional relationshiping going on. Alot of cross-boinking. Both season 1 and season 2 are really entertaining - there will be no season 3 though, but that's ok with me.
  6. coatsnmore
    Sep 11, 2017
    8
    This show is perfect.. if you are in the phase of your life where it could be relatable. The jokes are absurd and some are downright juvenile, but the pace of the show, the energy of the group, and the ever-pressing temptations of adulthood make up for any lack of insight the story deprives us of.
  7. Counterfeitfunk
    Mar 3, 2019
    10
    I am not an easy one to make laugh as I am a cynical schmuck who thinks a lot of things on TV are dumb but I LOL'd in this joint right here. Not since HAPPY ENDINGS have I truly appreciated and enjoyed spending a Saturday night watching an ensemble comedy on TV rather than going out. Perhaps it's so specifically targeted to xennials that only a narrow bandwidth of those who fall underI am not an easy one to make laugh as I am a cynical schmuck who thinks a lot of things on TV are dumb but I LOL'd in this joint right here. Not since HAPPY ENDINGS have I truly appreciated and enjoyed spending a Saturday night watching an ensemble comedy on TV rather than going out. Perhaps it's so specifically targeted to xennials that only a narrow bandwidth of those who fall under this category get the humour and appreciate the musical references (btw I think they spent a ton on music licensing which makes it all the more fun). It's unfortunate that I only JUST discovered this a month before the series was canceled. In the words of Liz Lemon: *blerg*… Expand
  8. kenyon30
    Mar 24, 2019
    7
    While the laughs were few and far between, some of the humor was spot on and very awkwardly hilarious. Smulders, Key and Parise were excellent, I just wish the writing had given them a little more to work with.

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#74 Most Discussed TV Season of 2017

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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
  1. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jul 17, 2017
    30
    Stoller shapes each episode to indulge the performers’ idiosyncrasies as opposed to servicing the story or character development, and the result is a flimsy story somewhat flogged into shape by hammy eccentricity.
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  2. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Sophie Gilbert
    Jul 17, 2017
    50
    Friends From College is largely uncomfortable to watch, although when it’s funny, it can be brilliant. The show’s biggest crime is that it overestimates its audience’s tolerance for watching people screw up.
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  3. 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.
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