The Good
This long running sitcom seemed to end just when it was supposed to.
The Bad
The makers of the “Joey Joey” music video should be shot.
Believe it or not, until I was given this 4 disc set, I had never seen one full episode of the show Friends. I remember when this show first came on the air, the big complaint was the lack of diversity amongst it’s white cast. Truthfully, I didn’t care about the show so I didn’t pay any attention to it. Flashforward to 2005 and my tune as completely changed. Not so much on this show but on TV in general. Then, when the opportunity came for me to review Friends - The Complete Tenth Season, what better place to start than right at the end? This way, since I will know how everything wraps up, I can then go back and rediscover the show if I care to find out how the characters got to their final resting places.
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After watching this DVD box set and going through the special features, I can safely say that I don’t regret not getting to this show sooner. This isn’t to say that Friends is a bad show, but more to the point, I just don’t feel like I missed anything by getting into it now. The standouts for me are David Schwimmer (Ross), Matthew Perry (Chandler) and Jennifer Anniston (Rachel). This isn’t to say that the other actors were bad (though I will get to Matt LeBlanc in a moment), I just didn’t think any of them were nearly as talented as their counterparts. As for this box set, I think, based on what I have seen of this show, that Friends probably ended where it should have. Who knows? Maybe they could have ended it a few seasons sooner? It isn’t that the writing is bad it’s just that it’s not that great. However, this show seemed to have a stride and all the actors played off one another very well.
Features
”Friends Final Thoughts” and “Multiple Season Gag Reels”
The Friends Final Thoughts is a bittersweet, fairly comprehensive look at the end of this TV show. I may have come into this show very late, but I still got a lot out of this box set and there was something about this “Special Feature” that really hit me. We hear from the cast and the producers and it really made me realize that this show was off the air. Now, I know I didn’t follow it, but for as long as I could remember Friends had always been there. These characters were always being talked about, good or bad, and seeing the show end on this DVD box set, it really set in that something that had been a mainstay in so many people’s lives was gone. I have never in my life (I don’t think) reviewed a DVD with Multiple Season Gag Reels. This features flashbacks from season 10 of course, but it also features flashbacks from Season’s 1 through 4. While gags are gags, these are still worth a look simply because they feature so many people’s favorite characters in their purest comic form.
The Joey Joey” music video is like a greatest hits of the character that Matt LeBlanc has made famous. In a word, this was awful. It is show footage, mixed with bad 1982 video FX that are painful to watch. I am sure that diehard fans will find it funny, but I just though it was poorly done. It was cool seeing the
