"Friends From College": Netflix lays another egg

I really like Keegan-Michael. I wish he'd pick better projects. I think he could be a much bigger star with the right vehicle.

Nick and Francesca Stoller are the writers who came up with this, and it probably is an autobiographical account of their one-upmanship marriage, except not funny which it would be if someone outside of the couple had been writing it.

Once again a crappy show has a gay character. Why is it that the lesbians get all the good shows, yet we have to be thankful for awful ones?

Some of the most brutal reviews I have ever seen

[quote] Once again a crappy show has a gay character. Why is it that the lesbians get all the good shows, yet we have to be thankful for awful ones?

Because that fat professional revisionist who played Robin Williams' gay brother in [italic]Mrs. Doubtfire[/italic] and tried to fill Divine's pumps when [italic]Hairspray[/italic] went to Broadway insisted on "visibility at any cost," even if it costs us our lives and our identity.

OINTB was not that good. Jenji Kohan is a hack.

Yes but does Fred Savage take it up the ass in this?

[quote] I really like Keegan-Michael. I wish he'd pick better projects. I think he could be a much bigger star with the right vehicle.

How bad was whatever he turned down to do this?

Given the all star cast I'm sure plenty of people will watch this. The first episode anyway, if it's as bad as the reviews make it out to be.

IF JENJI IS A HACK, RYAN MUPRHY IS NOT EVEN A WRITER. JENJI HAS HER OWN NICHE THAT SHE OVER ABUSES FROM BUT SHE CAN STILL WRITE. AND LESBIANS DON'T GET ANYTHING GOOD, OITNB IS JUST AN EXCEPTION PROVING THE RULE. GYPSY WAS WORSE THAN THIS EGG.

F&F R10

Nothing excuses shouting.

In the US at least, lesbians get more and better media representation than gay men by a wide margin.

Does the mean the complete collapse of Billy Eichner's mainstream career?!

Billy Eichner who is polluting the upcoming season of AHS?

Yes, let's single out Billy Eichner for derision since he is openly gay and successful. Let's blame everything, including our own failings, on the successful openly gay guy.

R13 you realize Billy Eichner was just cast as Timon in the remake of The Lion King?

In a role that was originated by a gay man to begin with.

It's because lesbians are more acceptable to straights because straights don't really believe it. They just need the right guy or are doing it to turn on straight men. Gay men are a whole different matter.

And because heterosexual men fetishize lesbianism while reviling any same-sex affection between men.

R15 I had no idea Billy Eichner was even gay so quit running around like a small yapping dog accusing people of homophobia just because we don't know who the fuck someone is and don't worship at their cock. Just because he's gay doesn't mean he has talent or is even a halfway decent human being. You're proof of that yourself.

Wait, you didn't know Billy Eichner is gay????? Do you not have a head?

This show is awful. The characters are terrible people. But I cannot stop watching it.

The reviewers at The Guardian have shit all over this show, arguing that it's a bellwether of how low Netflix has sunk lately.

I haven't seen the show. Does Billy scream every line of dialogue?

R24 Billy is the least shouty character on this show.

I was actually surprised by Eichner on this. He was not his usually shouty, bitchy character.

Nat Faxon is kind and of sexy, and Fred Savage is cute....but, yeah this show is not good. The "friends" are all awful.

But,, I'm laid up sick so I guess I'll finish it.

Surprise! It's renewed!

Just pulled the plug on Netflix. Not into serial killers, Hitler, the occult, zombies, cartoons, superheroes. God it feels good to be done with them.

I'd be close to pulling the plug too if it wasn't for Ozark. Now that I see Netflix is capable of coming up with a good TV show, I'm giving them more time.

Keegan-Michael Key is a fucking awful actor. The underweight Italian actress sucks too. Fred Savage and Cobie Smuldera are good and I wish Greg German was in the main cast.

I've never seen and after these reviews, I see no reason to. The premise is as they approach middle age, these one time college friends reconnect? I can't imagine that myself. I am close with and keep in regular contact with about 5 friends from college. We're all also part of a larger group email (about 15-20 people) used to keep everyone up to date on life events (births, weddings/divorces, family deaths, etc). That's enough. I have no desire to reconnect with people I knew for a short time a lifetime ago at this point in my life. Sure, I've run into people I knew in college at events, bars, business affairs, and the like and it's always pleasant but that's where it ends. This show sounds like others where the characters try to recapture or keep alive something that never really was there in the first place.

I made it past the first episode and five minutes into the second one. This has got to be one of the worst shows I have ever seen. Why does one-note Keegan Michael Key perform every scene like he just snorted 5 pounds of coke and drank another 50 gallons of Red Bull?

They're greenlighting everything until something sticks. I think the world will have a TV show like they have social media pretty soon.

I am gobsmacked that this POS was renewed.

I would only watch if Greg Germann and Billy Eichner were made series regulars.

Has anyone started Season 2 yet?

Can Keegan-Michael Key act yet?

Has Annie Parisse notices yet?

Is it still awful?

[quote]Greg Germann

Way to get me not to watch a show. Byegones.

[quote]Greg Germann

I started watching Grey's Anatomy to see Jake Borelli. When I saw Greg Germann as the doctor version of Richard Fish, I started to FF through every scene that doesn't feature Jake Borelli (or that hot Italian doctor).

So much that Netflix offers is so rough. Their productions always feel like someone optioned and produced a first draft of the script that even the writer thought was pretty bad and had planned to rewrite.

Annie Parisse IS ridiculously underweight. And yet they keep dressing her to show off her boniness. Eat something!

And while you are at, take Nat Faxon with you and the two of you get your teeth fixed.

When Greg Germann and Billy Eichner play the only bearable human beings on a show...

... well, the show sucks.

OK, Fred Savage is good too, he takes acting honors.

It’s better this season. Not great, but better.

The first half is better, the second half devolved again into the same situations that bored us last season . I will faint if this is renewed.