After 17 years of waiting, this is what we get? Watching each of the six walk back onto the sets was great and nostalgic. Learning that David didn't like the monkey played by Katie because they would have takes messed up due to the monkey missing cues and spending all day on David's shoulder was nice. Knowing that LeBlanc nearly broke his nose the night before his audition for his role as Joey was interesting to find out.
Everything else... not so much. We have a plethora of scenes being re-read by the actors and spliced with the actual scenes. We get the gang to play the game from TOW the Embryos, but it's totally forced and completely scripted. For instance, name the neighbour from upstairs and no one can name him so Larry Rankin enters the room. Later on another question is asked and David shows disappointment in Courteney getting it right because Tom Selleck's appearance was meant to be a surprise.
James Corden being the host was a bad decision. He's annoying to most, and having characters like Richard, Janice, the Geller parents, etc. Asking the questions would have been better.
All the power to the people included from all over who obsessed with the show. And it's great that the show saved people from committing suicide. But why are random people from Ghana and Germany telling me about growing up in the early 2000s and how Friends changed them?
Why was Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga and BTS featured? Seriously, re-create scenes, show us things we haven't seen. Tell us stuff we don't know. Most fans of the show know about Perry and Cox having to hold their position for 27 seconds after the scene in London. Most fans will know the audition process and that the show went through a lot before becoming "Friends" instead of "Six of One" or the other names. We all know the trivia. We know David and Jennifer crushed on each other and LeBlanc crushed on her too.
It's a completely wasted opportunity to have these guys come back and tape 50 minutes with them and fluff 45 more minutes with random guests and bring in old characters for 90 seconds. Janice seriously was there for less than 2 minutes. But thank god we got Lady Gaga singing Smelly Cat.
All this hype since last year and leading up to it and the trailer preview duping us all to think there was gonna be more than what we got. Oh, and the editor was atrocious. To go from the fountain to the table read, to the Embryo game, to watching bloopers in the apartment, to creator interviews. This editing deserves all the razzies for the next two years.
Total letdown and I'll never watch this again. I'd rather watch The One Where Joey Speaks French another hundred times before I watch this again. Oh, and Monica learned what Chandler did when he quit his job. It's statistical analysis and data reconfiguration.
Everything else... not so much. We have a plethora of scenes being re-read by the actors and spliced with the actual scenes. We get the gang to play the game from TOW the Embryos, but it's totally forced and completely scripted. For instance, name the neighbour from upstairs and no one can name him so Larry Rankin enters the room. Later on another question is asked and David shows disappointment in Courteney getting it right because Tom Selleck's appearance was meant to be a surprise.
James Corden being the host was a bad decision. He's annoying to most, and having characters like Richard, Janice, the Geller parents, etc. Asking the questions would have been better.
All the power to the people included from all over who obsessed with the show. And it's great that the show saved people from committing suicide. But why are random people from Ghana and Germany telling me about growing up in the early 2000s and how Friends changed them?
Why was Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga and BTS featured? Seriously, re-create scenes, show us things we haven't seen. Tell us stuff we don't know. Most fans of the show know about Perry and Cox having to hold their position for 27 seconds after the scene in London. Most fans will know the audition process and that the show went through a lot before becoming "Friends" instead of "Six of One" or the other names. We all know the trivia. We know David and Jennifer crushed on each other and LeBlanc crushed on her too.
It's a completely wasted opportunity to have these guys come back and tape 50 minutes with them and fluff 45 more minutes with random guests and bring in old characters for 90 seconds. Janice seriously was there for less than 2 minutes. But thank god we got Lady Gaga singing Smelly Cat.
All this hype since last year and leading up to it and the trailer preview duping us all to think there was gonna be more than what we got. Oh, and the editor was atrocious. To go from the fountain to the table read, to the Embryo game, to watching bloopers in the apartment, to creator interviews. This editing deserves all the razzies for the next two years.
Total letdown and I'll never watch this again. I'd rather watch The One Where Joey Speaks French another hundred times before I watch this again. Oh, and Monica learned what Chandler did when he quit his job. It's statistical analysis and data reconfiguration.