Friday, July 21, 2017

7/21/17 Friends From College (Netflix Series)

    I really wanted this to be a good show, specially with so many familiar faces.  It has Cobie Smulders, Key from Key and Peele, Fred Savage, Nat Faxon (who I just saw on Married last summer), and a host of other people who showed up for 1-2 episodes.  The idea of the show is that these people were friends in school, Harvard, specifically, why not?  The show picks up with Key banging away on a lady, only to find out she is not his wife, she is one of the "friends".  She married rich and can fly in and out anytime, Key is living in Chicago and has now decided to go to New York which will bring all six friends back in the same town.
    Key is a writer and part of the problem is too much time is spent on his character and he is not the most interesting in the bunch.  Smulders plays his wife and for a few episodes thay are distracted with the idea of a baby, I don't know why, they are living on one of the other friend's couches and don't even have their own place.  Key is trying to make his character eccentric or something, but he keeps dropping into voices which don't make sense.  I think he would be better playing it straight, it seemed he was forcing funny where there didn't need to be any.
    Another problem is he still wants to bang his friend who is another member of the group, but she is married and has two kids.  They get sloppy a lot of times like they are begging to get caught, but they really don't.  The lady seems like she would prefer to get caught until it gets real, Key tells her he is going to confess to his wife, and the other lady starts begging not to do it, it will end her marriage and he has no right, blah blah blah.
    All the other supporting cast is annoyed by them still hanging onto each other.  Savage plays a gay dude, and his partner played by Billy Eichner is always annoyed because the friends always seem to be around.  The husband of the lady Key is banging is also constantly on her about why the need to hang with the group of "losers", he is rich with multiple houses, and doesn't generally care for the group.
    Smulders ends up hooking up with another member of the group, played by Faxon while she is away on a retreat.  She immediately feels guilty and wants to confess to her husband.  She does, and the last ten minutes of the show has everything pretty much falling apart, I can't see a reason for a second season, but who knows.

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