A scripted version of what happened to the actors behind these archetypal characters would have made for more compelling 온라인카지노추천.

| Apr 8, 2022

Oh. My. God. Could this have BEEN any more schmaltzy?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 5, 2021

I have to admit that I, personally, was utterly sold from the first moment that Ross Geller walked on to the remade set. Waves of fondness. Constant smile. Not sure what's happened to me. No one told me life was going to be this way.

| Jun 5, 2021

It is a telethon guided by a tautology: Why is Friends so popular? Because Friends is so popular. Nostalgia, the special suggests, is its own value.

| Jun 1, 2021

Friends: The Reunion is equal doses of sentiment and saccharine, hitting all the required marks of a television reunion. It has laughter, it has tears. It wheels out more surprise appearances than a rerun of This Is Your Life.

| Jun 1, 2021

Cast members' reminiscing is fun, but HBO Max's show could have dug deeper about how they're doin'...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2021

Yes, it's all a little Oprah-esque and sappy, but it's believable. Light, comic television can soothe like little else, when the time is right.

| Jun 1, 2021

The clips made me want to rewatch it and they made me realize that despite its shortcomings, Friends was a special show and it deserves to be celebrated. Just maybe not over a running time of 105 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2021

Friends: The Reunion is aimed at the avid fan who might be disappointed to hear that Kudrow reject the idea of a reboot or a Friends film, but will take great solace in observing the enduring chemistry and camaraderie...

| Jun 1, 2021

Aside from finding it curiously painful, I was also surprised to find that I enjoyed the special on its own terms.

| Jun 1, 2021

No one is going to reflect on the flaws, screw-ups, and offenses. That might have been a more engaging and less predictable special, but it also would have been less true to the shiny, happy spirit of the original series.

| Jun 1, 2021

How much you enjoyed this would depend on how much the show is in your bones, and it is in my bones.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2021

Friends: The Reunion has a few amusing moments but it's aimed at adoring fans who want a sentimental, unthinking journey.

| Jun 1, 2021

The "Friends: Reunion" isn't in the business of looking back through time with brash clarity or sobering perspective. If

| May 31, 2021

Did we need a Friends reunion? Not really... Was this 100-minute tribute to the world's biggest sitcom as pointless as it was a total joy? Absolutely.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 27, 2021

The special feels like a missed opportunity to see the characters we've grown to know so well over the past 25 years truly come back to life.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 27, 2021

As reunions go, the whole thing is warm, funny, entertaining, and a little too treacly at times - but that's how Friends was, too, so it feels right.

| May 26, 2021

Every part of the show that's not just the six of them talking struggles to justify its existence.

| May 26, 2021

The special is better when it gets out of the cast's way and shows us what drew us to them, and them to each other.

| May 26, 2021

It's the closest to a scripted "Friends" reunion we're apt to get, and fascinating to watch how seamlessly they appear to slide back into these roles, 17 years later.

| May 26, 2021