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strawdog · 03-01-2019 10:08AM

den87 wrote: »

One thing I’ve discovered recently thanks to Netflix, Friends does not age well.

Not a fan of Friends but I can still appreciate that between about I think season 2 and season 4 there was some very good comedy writing (by the standards of the time anyway) and a real chemistry between the cast (easy to underestimate how hard that is to find). That period still holds up imo. It quickly jumped the shark thereafter and became unwatchable which I put down to the pressure of its massive success and the fact that they blew the central plot device of Ross/Rachel, that happens to a lot of shows tho.

inforfun · 03-01-2019 10:10AM

inforfun wrote: »

Mentioned before here but some stuff deserves to be mentioned again

Only saw 3 episodes so far but cant wait to be home for the rest of Dirty Money tonight.

They should have stopped after those 1st 3. Ep4,5 and 6 where not even remotely as interesting as the first 3.

Not hard to guess who the documentary makes voted for in the last US election :pac:

And Friends....
If you see what nowadays is considered the best of that kind of shows, it is still a ****load better.
They should just stop these kind of shows.
More effort is made to not offend than to be funny.

Sad Professor · 03-01-2019 10:31AM

Isn't Friends kinda a generational thing?

Electric Nitwit · 03-01-2019 10:39AM

FunLover18 wrote: »

Been watching James Acaster's specials over the holidays and they are hilarious, I'm going to keep an eye out for any Dublin gigs.

Whelans in November

Basq · 03-01-2019 10:57AM

Yep, going to see him in Galway. That new show is meant to be the best thing he's done!

5 star reviews everywhere!

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/oct/31/james-acaster-cold-lasagne-hate-myself-1999-review
https://inews.co.uk/culture/james-acaster-vaudeville-theatre-review-london-tour-2019/
https://www.chortle.co.uk/review/2018/11/01/41588/james_acaster:_cold_lasagne_hate_myself_1999
http://londonisfunny.com/review-james-acaster-cold-lasagne-hate-myself-1999/
https://londonist.com/london/comedy/james-acaster-cold-lasagne-hate-myself-review

JohnCreedon81 · 03-01-2019 11:09AM

Tried You last night and thought it was awful!! Surprised it’s getting lots of praise, terrible all round.

03-01-2019 11:32AM

JohnCreedon81 wrote: »

Tried You last night and thought it was awful!! Surprised it’s getting lots of praise, terrible all round.

Attempted it twice over the Christmas and I watch any aul tripe...couldn’t stick it!!

Nalz · 03-01-2019 02:50PM

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

I thought it was decent enough. Not fantastic but definitely watchable

I'm with you on this assessment.
6.5 out of 10

neirbloom · 03-01-2019 03:31PM

strawdog wrote: »

Not a fan of Friends but I can still appreciate that between about I think season 2 and season 4 there was some very good comedy writing (by the standards of the time anyway) and a real chemistry between the cast (easy to underestimate how hard that is to find). That period still holds up imo. It quickly jumped the shark thereafter and became unwatchable which I put down to the pressure of its massive success and the fact that they blew the central plot device of Ross/Rachel, that happens to a lot of shows tho.

Yea I really enjoyed the first couple of seasons way back when and even now but tried watching the final few especially the 10th season and its really woeful like the episode where Monica gets the Rastafarian dreadlocks or where she thinks she's after catching Chandler enjoying himself to shark porn

.

Seinfeld on the other hand while dated the comedy still hold up and how much did Amazon or Hulu fork out on that deal.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 03-01-2019 04:05PM

Speaking of Friends, I was just reading there that each of the 6 main cast members make about $20million a year off royalties from reruns. And it's never been off air in the UK since it ended. Madness!

snotboogie · 03-01-2019 04:31PM

neirbloom wrote: »

Yea I really enjoyed the first couple of seasons way back when and even now but tried watching the final few especially the 10th season and its really woeful like the episode where Monica gets the Rastafarian dreadlocks or where she thinks she's after catching Chandler enjoying himself to shark porn .

Seinfeld on the other hand while dated the comedy still hold up and how much did Amazon or Hulu fork out on that deal.

I think the earlier seasons hold up, it had a Simpsonsesque fall off towards the end which rarely gets mentioned.

mrmorgan · 03-01-2019 08:29PM

friends was the most overrated comedy of all time, bloody awful

it hasnt a patch on seinfeld

extra gravy · 03-01-2019 08:55PM

somesoldiers wrote: »

Dogs of Berlin-kick ass

It's excellent, isn't it? I wonder will be there be a second season.

mrmorgan · 03-01-2019 09:20PM

anyone for something for me to watch after the city game?

peteeeed · 04-01-2019 08:35AM

And Breathe Normally
An Icelandic single mom struggling with poverty and a Guinea-Bissauan asylum seeker facing deportation find their lives intertwined in unexpected ways.

Broken season 1

Call My Agent!(french) season 3

case closed season 1

heavy rescue:401 season 2

Lionheart
When her father falls ill, Adaeze steps up to run the family business -- alongside her uncle -- and prove herself in a male-dominated world.

QB1:beyond the lights season 2

the super

added today

km79 · 04-01-2019 10:09AM

peteeeed wrote: »

And Breathe Normally
An Icelandic single mom struggling with poverty and a Guinea-Bissauan asylum seeker facing deportation find their lives intertwined in unexpected ways.

Broken season 1

Call My Agent!(french) season 3

case closed season 1

heavy rescue:401 season 2

Lionheart
When her father falls ill, Adaeze steps up to run the family business -- alongside her uncle -- and prove herself in a male-dominated world.

QB1:beyond the lights season 2

the super

added today

QB1 season 2 . LOVELY stuff !!!!

VeryTerry · 04-01-2019 10:30AM

JohnCreedon81 wrote: »

Tried You last night and thought it was awful!! Surprised it’s getting lots of praise, terrible all round.

It's like an early 2000's TV movie

budgemook · 04-01-2019 11:48AM

Friends has certainly aged badly and went pure crap for the last few seasons (Joey's stupidity pretty much became a severe mental disability for example) but I'm not sure how people are surprised at it's success - look at one of the most successful sitcoms since Friends, the big bang theory - it's at least 40 times worse than friends and I hope it never comes to Netflix Ireland!

RocketRaccoon · 04-01-2019 11:49AM

budgemook wrote: »

Friends has certainly aged badly and went pure crap for the last few seasons (Joey's stupidity pretty much became a severe mental disability for example) but I'm not sure how people are surprised at it's success - look at one of the most successful sitcoms since Friends, the big bang theory - it's at least 40 times worse than friends and I hope it never comes to Netflix Ireland!

There's 11 series of big bang theory on Netflix here.

budgemook · 04-01-2019 11:52AM

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

There's 11 series of big bang theory on Netflix here.

pixelburp · 04-01-2019 12:07PM

Friends is such an odd fish, I'm sure someone somewhere has done a decent thought piece of why & how it captured the zeitgeist. Looking back, it wasn't that funny to begin with, trading on some hoary clichés that haven't aged well at all (though to be fair the first season wasn't bad), and its characters were all unlikeable, conceited jerks. It was a viral hit before that term came to be, with obsession over Ross & Rachel being a strange intense focus.

Maybe it was just the catchy theme tune, that always helps a lot.

inforfun · 04-01-2019 12:46PM

As with so many of those series, it just ran a few seasons too long.

The best comedies usually make you wish they had a few seasons more.
Every joke has been made after 4 or 5 seasons.

Sad Professor · 04-01-2019 12:48PM

pixelburp wrote: »

Friends is such an odd fish, I'm sure someone somewhere has done a decent thought piece of why & how it captured the zeitgeist. Looking back, it wasn't that funny to begin with, trading on some hoary clichés that haven't aged well at all (though to be fair the first season wasn't bad), and its characters were all unlikeable, conceited jerks. It was a viral hit before that term came to be, with obsession over Ross & Rachel being a strange intense focus.

Maybe it was just the catchy theme tune, that always helps a lot.

It's a real gen x show. The premise was basically lifted from Cameron Crowe's Singles albeit greatly watered down. Watching it as a kid I remember quite enjoying the first season, but something about those characters and how they lived always mystified me.

peteeeed · 04-01-2019 01:08PM

friends is a screensaver , if you leave the TV on long enough it will appear

RayCun · 04-01-2019 01:14PM

The kids are working their way through Friends now, and I was surprised how early in the run things like, "we were on a break" came, and how long it kept going after the Ross/Emily thing. That wasn't even halfway through the run.

Although - and I realize this is the kind of observation that would only occur to the mind of an eternal being. How did they afford that apartment? A waitress and a chef with those Manhattan real estate prices.

neonsofa · 04-01-2019 01:35PM

RayCun wrote: »

Although - and I realize this is the kind of observation that would only occur to the mind of an eternal being. How did they afford that apartment? A waitress and a chef with those Manhattan real estate prices.

They addressed that iirc, was Monica's grandmother's and rent controlled.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 04-01-2019 01:53PM

RayCun wrote: »

Although - and I realize this is the kind of observation that would only occur to the mind of an eternal being. How did they afford that apartment? A waitress and a chef with those Manhattan real estate prices.

I feel like Friends in season 8. Out of ideas and forcing Joey and Rachel together even though it made no sense.

Pete Moss · 04-01-2019 05:15PM

pixelburp wrote:

though to be fair the first season wasn't bad

Was that the season when Rachel was constantly smuggling raisins beneath the tops she wore?

God bless whoever consistently lowered the temperature on the production set.

somesoldiers · 04-01-2019 05:32PM

extra gravy wrote: »

somesoldiers wrote: »

Dogs of Berlin-kick ass

It's excellent, isn't it? I wonder will be there be a second season.

Definitely hope so, plenty of scope anyhow from where it finished up

SoupyNorman · 04-01-2019 06:18PM

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I feel like Friends in season 8. Out of ideas and forcing Joey and Rachel together even though it made no sense.

Yes, as bad ad the show got this was the most crazy and cringy thing they ever did.

As much as I dont like the show I will say Ross was always quite funny.

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