Anonymous wrote:I watched. I didnt love it but I didnt hate it.

The longer I watched the more I hated it.

I watched. I didnt love it but I didnt hate it.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually think Fred Savage is really funny in this show. I laughed so hard during the scene where he's at work, thinking he'll be publishing this fantastic new book. That whole montage was hysterical.

The montage stretched over months and months, and when the punch line was that it wasn't Keegan's book, made it just seem that much more of an example of the shows writers trying too hard to be funny. No one is that clueless even if they are distracted by a breakup.

It was actually really funny - doesn't have to be believable.

To me it fell flat b/c they wanted you to suspend belief that someone was that stupid for so long. For me the joke should get to the point like in Bridget jones where her daydreams are interrupted in moment by reality or you have a character who is already established as being dim. So yeah, cute clip to a Hanson song but lame from a story telling perspective.

Agreed. It was very lazy and unimaginative story telling. That's a critique I could level at the entire series.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually think Fred Savage is really funny in this show. I laughed so hard during the scene where he's at work, thinking he'll be publishing this fantastic new book. That whole montage was hysterical.

The montage stretched over months and months, and when the punch line was that it wasn't Keegan's book, made it just seem that much more of an example of the shows writers trying too hard to be funny. No one is that clueless even if they are distracted by a breakup.

It was actually really funny - doesn't have to be believable.

To me it fell flat b/c they wanted you to suspend belief that someone was that stupid for so long. For me the joke should get to the point like in Bridget jones where her daydreams are interrupted in moment by reality or you have a character who is already established as being dim. So yeah, cute clip to a Hanson song but lame from a story telling perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually think Fred Savage is really funny in this show. I laughed so hard during the scene where he's at work, thinking he'll be publishing this fantastic new book. That whole montage was hysterical.

The montage stretched over months and months, and when the punch line was that it wasn't Keegan's book, made it just seem that much more of an example of the shows writers trying too hard to be funny. No one is that clueless even if they are distracted by a breakup.

It was actually really funny - doesn't have to be believable.

Anonymous wrote:I actually think Fred Savage is really funny in this show. I laughed so hard during the scene where he's at work, thinking he'll be publishing this fantastic new book. That whole montage was hysterical.

The montage stretched over months and months, and when the punch line was that it wasn't Keegan's book, made it just seem that much more of an example of the shows writers trying too hard to be funny. No one is that clueless even if they are distracted by a breakup.

I actually think Fred Savage is really funny in this show. I laughed so hard during the scene where he's at work, thinking he'll be publishing this fantastic new book. That whole montage was hysterical.

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Anonymous wrote:I wanted to like it - the premise is interesting, the actors are great. But no. It was really whiny and juvenile and I hated all the cheating. Made no sense.

Exactly! They seemed like 5 years out of college not 20.

It's as though someone found an old script they wrote in college.

(Lastly, it's completely superficial, but the women are so much better looking than the men overall. Fred Savage can't act and is only there b/c he survived as a child actor and didn't OD. He's like watching a piece of cheese melt. Plus, note to Kevin Nealon-clone, fake tan and ultra white teeth bleaching only draws attention to your hideous ferret teeth. If there's a stupid script, I want to see more attractive people behaving badly.)

I find the women attractive, but all the men are so unappealing. Especially KMK - I don't find him attractive *at all*.

Completely agree and he acts like a juvenile idiot throughout the series. I would kill myself if I was married to a jackass like that.

Well, they all act that way--over the top annoying. That whole drawn out scene of Fred savage and KMK try to "brainstorm" for the novel while the boyfriend was trying to sleep, was like nails on a chalkboard. Why would anyone want to be friends with these people?

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Anonymous wrote:I wanted to like it - the premise is interesting, the actors are great. But no. It was really whiny and juvenile and I hated all the cheating. Made no sense.

Exactly! They seemed like 5 years out of college not 20.

It's as though someone found an old script they wrote in college.

(Lastly, it's completely superficial, but the women are so much better looking than the men overall. Fred Savage can't act and is only there b/c he survived as a child actor and didn't OD. He's like watching a piece of cheese melt. Plus, note to Kevin Nealon-clone, fake tan and ultra white teeth bleaching only draws attention to your hideous ferret teeth. If there's a stupid script, I want to see more attractive people behaving badly.)

I find the women attractive, but all the men are so unappealing. Especially KMK - I don't find him attractive *at all*.

Completely agree and he acts like a juvenile idiot throughout the series. I would kill myself if I was married to a jackass like that.

Anonymous wrote:I really liked it. I have a crush on Keegan. I read an interview with the writers and I get what they were going for.

Yeah, I read it, too, and I get it, too, but the work should really stand on its own, and it doesn't.

Anonymous wrote:I really liked it. I have a crush on Keegan. I read an interview with the writers and I get what they were going for.

What were they going for? The "comedy" was repetitive, over the top physical gags, which for the most part weren't funny.

Keegan should have been directed out of indulging in the character voices. These made no sense and just came off as stupid.

Apparently the writers did go to Harvard and you van tell they wrote the Keegan character with a white guy in mind. Seriously, there was one throw away line about living as a black man, but as a typical black guy any one of the following would have landed him in jail or shot or at least someone calling 911:

--smashing the glass doors of a hospital pharmacy with a chair
--arguing with a woman at a winery while she's sitting in a vat
--breaking into a female student's dorm room
--standing with a screaming woman as she smashes the door of a pharmacy

Let's hope Netflix put these "friends" and us out of the miserable writing.

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Anonymous wrote:The woman having the affair looks about 10 years older than the rest of the friend group - same with her husband. They never explain this huge age difference.

They did explain why her husband looks a lot older, he is. She is his 2nd wife

Yes but Sam also looks 10 years older than the rest of the friends. How would she have met everyone if she was at Harvard 10 years before them? If she's supposed to be the same age as the rest of the friends it's terrible casting and not believable.

I really liked it. I have a crush on Keegan. I read an interview with the writers and I get what they were going for.

I binge hate-watched it last weekend.

I still apparently have a leftover middle school crush on Fred Savage.

I think it has the possibility of being good, but it's like they couldn't decide if they were going to be campy or not.

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Anonymous wrote:The woman having the affair looks about 10 years older than the rest of the friend group - same with her husband. They never explain this huge age difference.

They did explain why her husband looks a lot older, he is. She is his 2nd wife

I just looked her up. On IMDB it says she is playing Mary Kay Paterno in an as yet untitled proejct? Does that mean she's playing Mary Kay LETORNEAU? If so, I can see that and I approve!