Friends: The Reunion SPOILER FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review

Ladies and gentlemen i'm a huge fan of the TV show Friends and so you can bet that when they announced that there was going to be a reunion special you just know that I was going to not only watch this reunion special but that I was also going to review this reunion special. As such i've made this review spoiler free and so join me as I review the reunion special that we have all been waiting for with the reunion special in question being called simply just "Friends: The Reunion" enjoy.

Now then everybody this reunion special has no plot since it's just the actors meeting up with each other and talking about the show. I have to admit that when I think of a Friends reunion special having the cast just talking about there time on the show isn't what I expected but at the same time given how hard it is just to get all six actors together just for one night this is the kind of reunion episode / special that we could have ever have hoped for in my opinion at least.

Appearing in this reunion special are Jennifer Aniston , Courteney Cox , Lisa Kudrow , Matt LeBlanc , Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer. Some if the guest stars that are appearing in this reunion special are David Beckham , Justin Bieber , BTS , James Corden , Cindy Crawford , Cara Delevingne , Elliott Gould , Kit Harington , Lady Gaga , Larry Hankin , Mindy Kaling , Thomas Lennon , Christina Pickles , Tom Selleck and James Michael Tyler.

Now then honestly I know that alot of you will be put of by the fact that James Corden is hosting this special but trust me when I tell you this he actually does a good job hosting this reunion special. I honestly cannot fault anything with this reunion special when it comes to who is appearing in this special since alot of guest stars and recurring stars from Friends all make an appearance and it was honestly nice to see those faces again talking about this show that was not only fun to watch but Friends also looked like it was fun make and as well being very fun to film.

Now then believe it or not boys and girls but this is actually the second reunion special that has been produced for HBO Max with the other one being the The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Reunion. Which if memory serves me correctly that reunion special follows the exact same format as this one does and while there most certainly is a case of "well if it's not broke don't fix it" how at the same time it makes this special seem like it's not only copying but also being a carbon copy of the The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Reunion special.

Now if your in the UK then the format of this reunion show might seem a little bit familiar to you because yes this is a better version of the The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited reunion special. However unlike that special which was promoted as the next episode of The Inbetweeners and had nothing to do with nor did it even celebrate The Inbetweeners this reunion special does celebrate Friends and it also celebrates everything that Friends was and as well as celebrating what the TV show Friends meant to alot of people not just in America but also around the world as well.

This to me is what makes this reunion special stand out from The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited reunion special. Since that special didn't really celebrate The Inbetweeners and was made in my opinion at least just to cash in on The Inbetweeners IP however with this particular reunion special you could tell right from the word go that everyone that was involved with making this reunion special happen was a fan of Friends that everyone who was involved with making this reunion well and truly understood what Friends meant to not only themselves but to also alot of other people as well and that kind of love and respect really does shine through in the final product in my opinion at least anyways.

Now i'm not going to spoil anything that's in this special unless it was in the reunion specials trailer but there was one thing that I wanted them to do during this special and they did it. I'm not going to say what that thing is but it's near the start of the special and honestly it wouldn't have felt like a Friends reunion special if they didn't include this thing in it and while it's something that other people might not have been bothered about seeing in this reunion special to me tho seeing this thing in this reunion helped get back in the mood for seeing my old Friends once again.

Now then boys and girls this reunion special has a running time of one hour and forty three minuets and fifty seconds and honestly this special doesn't even feel that long at all in my opinion. Since the time really does fly by and as such I really do feel that this was the perfect running time for this special since everyone that appears in this special is just so freaking likeable and as such I honestly wish/ wished that this reunion special was a bit longer just because it meant that I would be spending more time with people who are generally likeable people.

What I really loved about this special is finding out just exactly how close the main six cast members of the show really were. Of course i'd heard rumours over the years of all six main cast members being close friends but it's something else entirely to actually see how close these six actors and actresses actually are and just seeing them bounce of off each other makes these actors and actresses seem all the more likeable and even tho it's a cliché to say that the cast of a TV show are like a family to each other I honestly do feel that that was well and truly the case for the main six cast members of this show but that's just what I think anyways and that's just in my very humble and as well as being in my very honest opinion anyways.

Overall if you haven't seen this reunion special go and watch it right now log to whichever form of HBO is carrying this special and watch because you will love it and you'll love it even more if your a fan of Friends. Now then since i've talked about all of the good and as well as being all of the bad things that are in this reunion special in this very review that means that this reunion special gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me personally.

As for where I got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this review from Google Images and nowhere else and since I went to only Google Images and nowhere else for the images that I personally used in this very review. I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use Google Images if you want to use any images from this reunion special since pretty much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were fairly high quality and as well as being fairly high definition.

Friends "The Pilot" Review

 

Ladies and gentlemen there are alot of TV shows that I want to base reviews n and alot of them I simply haven't gotten around to covering. One of those can now be ticked of since as you can see by the title i'm doing a review based of the first episode of a show that I loved growing up and I have to say going back to this first episode felt weird since i'm used to seeing these characters looking older and not younger and so here is my review of the pilot episode of Friends which is known by many names but i'm just calling it "The Pilot" enjoy.

Now here I would normally disclose what the plot of the episode is and give you my thoughts on the plot but the episode did me a favour and didn't include a plot. Instead all the pilot episode is is just a bunch of scenes whose sole purpose is to tell jokes which since this is a comedy show it makes alot of sense that the scenes are there jus to lead up to a joke but at the same time it would have been nice if there was a story being told since it would then give your show a reason to exist even if the story is just about Rachel who meets the gang in this episode is just trying to get to know the gang even a story as simple as that would still work because it's still a good and simple story and doing simple stores is what this show is good at doing in my opinion.

Starring in the episode is future A list actresses Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Greene , future Scream franchise star  Courteney Cox as Monica Geller and Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay. Also starring in the episode is Matt Le Blanc as Joey Tribbiani , Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing , David Schwimmer as Ross Geller , John Allen Nelson as Paul the Wine Guy , Clea Lewis as Franny and Cynthia Mann as Jasmine.

For their first episode the cast really do knock it out of the park in my opinion with all of the main six actors giving some really funny performances. Honestly I can't really find that much wrong with the episode when it comes to the acting since the acting is exactly what you expect from a pilot episode in that it's good but there's clearly room to grow which for me at least is a good thing because it would be hard for anyone to keep on delivering great acting on a weekly basis but here the six main actors have room to grow and improve and they do improve over the shows ten years.

One of the things that i'd say this show is famous for it's the dance that the main six actors do in the show's opening. However what I didn't know is that this pilot episode is the only episode in the show's entire run to feature the full dance and while I do like the opening to this show alot I can see why it was trimmed down a bit since it does take a while for the intro to end which given this show isn't that long you need all the running time that you can get.

Now I could be mistaken but I do believe that this episode uses a laugh track but like I said I could be very well be wrong. If it does use a laugh track I have to wonder why they used a laugh track because alot of the jokes are genuinely funny on there own and if they didn't use a laugh track then I have to give them credit because they had a lot of funny jokes in this episode and yes I will be talking about the jokes later on in this review.

This episode has a running time of twenty two minuets and forty nine seconds so let's round that up to twenty two minuets and fifty seconds. Which oddly feels about right for this episode since there's not story going on at all but at the same time it feels alot longer then that because of the fact that there's no story going on and so that does make the episode feel a bit boring at times which is never a good thing since if your a film , TV show / episode / book / video game / comic book or whatever you always want your auidence to be entertained and the only way that you can do that is by having a story which as i've mentioned is something that this episode lacks.

Now i'm not kidding when I say this but this is a show that I grew up with and I mean that in the literal sense since I was four when this show started airing. This is one show that I can never escape since even now sixteen years after the show ended I still cannot escape the show since it's repeated a lot on a lot of various different channels / networks and honestly I love that fact since this show is lighthearted fun and given that it's 2020 we need a bit of light hearted fun right now due to everything that's going on in the world.

Now then boys and girls this is a comedy and so that means that I have to talk about the jokes that are in the episode itself. If i'm being honest the jokes in this episode are were the episode shines best in my opinion simply because the jokes in this episode are freaking funny while yes there are some jokes that didn't get a laugh they were few and far between and they very quickly followed up those unfunny jokes with jokes that were really funny or at least least I thought that the jokes in this episode were funny and like I say all comedy is subjective and so what I found funny you guys might not find funny and what I didn't find funny you guys might find to be really freaking funny.

Overall this was honestly a really solid episode in my opinion and like I said at the start of the review it was weird seeing the cast so young since i'm so used to seeing the cast a bit older. I'm not going to say that this episode is perfect because it's honestly not and all the issues that i've had with the episode i've covered in this review but at the same time there are alot of good things in the episode and just like all the things that I didn't like about the episode all the things that I did like about the episode i've also talked about in this review as such this episode gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Friends fandom wiki page or Google Images. Since I got the vast majority of the images that I used in this review from the official Friends fandom wiki page I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use the official Friends fandom wiki page since even tho there aren't that many images either from this episode or from the either the show or it's spin off show called "Joey" the images that they do have are fairly high quality which for me at least is an important thing when i'm creating a review with the other being if i'm reviewing a TV episode (like with this review) then is there an episode by episode cast list but that's only important if i'm reviewing a TV episode and it isn't important if i'm reviewing a movie.