NBC | Release Date: September 22, 1994
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Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRobert BiancoFeb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review: In short, they do what friends do, only they do more of it more often. Too often, actually. That constant comic bantering grows a little tired, just as it would if it ever actually happened in real life. [22 Sept 1994, p.C1]
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NewsdayMarvin KitmanJul 12, 2013
Season 1 Review: The trouble with "Friends" is that Cox is not strong enough as a comedian. [5 Sep 1994]
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San Diego Union-TribuneRobert P. LaurenceFeb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review: Tonight's new NBC sitcom from the producers of HBO's "Dream On" hands us still one more batch of self-consciously quirky, single, more-or-less charming twentysomething characters and lets them hang for a half-hour reading faux Woody Allen lines. [22 Sept 1994, p.36]
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Cleveland Plain DealerTom FeranFeb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review: Amiable but not memorable, Friends becomes an overcrowded "Ellen," which remains a junior-varsity "Seinfeld" wannabe. [22 Sept 1994, p.7E]
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Miami HeraldHal BoedekerFeb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review: Wildly uneven. [22 Sept 1994]
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Kansas City StarBarry GarronFeb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review: So it's come to this - all talk and no action... Some of the lines are funny and several of the stars, particularly Aniston and David Schwimmer, who plays Ross, are appealing. But something is missing here and that something is a story. Where's the beef?[22 Sept 1994, p.F1]
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Houston ChronicleAnn HodgesFeb 27, 2013
Season 1 Review: Friends is the new "Seinfeld" wannabe, but it will never be as funny as "Seinfeld." Even as "Seinfeld" is now, which isn't as funny as it used to be.[22 Sept 1994, p.10]