F.R.I.E.N.D.S

On this blog post I will be talking about my favorite TV series. This show is called FRIENDS. The story line is about 6 friends, three boys and three girls that live in Manhattan and about their daily lives. This series first aired on September 22, 2004, and then it lasted for 10 years. This series started off as all the other series do, just as a test, but it gained popularity really fast.

Most of the episodes take place on one of the girl’s apartment, but the most popular place for all of the friends to be is in this little coffee house they’re always at called Central Perk. I will describe a little about each character:

-Monica Geller (Courtney Cox): She is a really bossy girl with an obsessive-compulsive disorder. She always has to be cleaning, and everything has to be perfectly organized. Her parents prefer her brother Ross and this always comes up. She is a chef. She is always being made fun of because she used to have a lot of overweight in high school. She ends up marrying Chandler Bing.


-Chandler Bing (Mathew Perry): He is the funny/sarcastic guy of the group, but his personality is because he uses humor as a self-defense mechanism. He has always had bad luck in relationships, because of his problems with commitment. His parents got divorced because his father turned out to be gay and now stars a burlesque in Las Vegas. None of his friends now what his job is until he quits and gets a job in advertising. Everybody teases him for being the only smoker of the group.

-Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston): Daddy’s little girl, high school cheerleader, typical popular American girl. Used to be Monica’s best friend in high school, but lost contact until she appears looking for her and asking for her help after walking out on her wedding day. She starts working as a waitress in the coffee house, but ends up working in what she really likes: fashion. She has a baby with Ross Geller.

-Ross Geller (David Schwimmer): Smart, boring guy of the group. He is a paleontologist who works at a museum and as a teacher. He is preferred to Monica by his parents. He is always being teased because he was married and his wife ended up leaving him because she was a lesbian and also because of his number of divorces which are 4 in the show. He is always correcting people. He has had a major crush on Rachel since high school, and end up with her, and they have a baby.

-Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow): The weird girl of the group. She is a twin sister but hardly ever speaks to her twin. Her mother killed herself, and Phoebe is always using this to try to get things from the other. She plays the guitar and sings on Central Perk, but her songs are really weird and not common. She is also a masseuse. She never had a real relationship until she met Mike and married him.

-Joey Tribbiani (Matt Leblanc): The womanizer of the group, always going out with tons of women. He is an actor who struggles a lot to get jobs and auditions. His biggest role ever was playing Dr. Drake Ramoray in a show called Days of our Lives. He loves to eat. Food is one of his passions. He falls in love with Rachel, but things with them don’t work out because of Ross.


So, the story begins when Rachel comes looking for Monica because she walked out of her wedding, and as they used to be best friends in high school she asks for her help. There she meets all of the other guys because they were all together in the coffee house. She becomes a part of the group very fast, and here is when Ross’s feelings from the past come back.
The most important things you should know about friends are:

·         Rachel and Ross start dating in season 2, but have a problem and break up after one year. They have a baby called Emma in season 8, but don’t work things out until season 10 and they get back together.

·         Monica marries Chandler on season 7, but they can’t have kids. They undergo a big process of adoption and end up adopting twin babies.

·         Phoebe becomes a surrogate for his brother and his wife, and ends up having triplets.

·         Rachel and Joey tried dating for a while at the beginning of season 10, but neither of them could stop feeling guilty because of Ross, so things didn't work out.

·         Joey’s career finally pays off and he ends up having a great job at a soap opera, and he wins a big award for it: "A Soapie".

·         Phoebe ends up marrying a guy Joey set her up with, something she never thought she’d do because she never had a real relationship.

My top 3 episodes, and the ones I totally recommend are:

·         Season 3: “The one with the Football”

·         Season 7: “The one with all the Candy”

·         Season 7: “The one with the Baby Shower”

I hope you take the time to watch it, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!