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Friends from College

How many times can you watch Citizen Kane? How many minutes can you watch of Walt, Skylar, and Walt Jr. eating breakfast at the dining table? Birdman can win the Oscar but does it actually deserve this praise masturbation if it isn’t exactly rewatchable? But let me tell you something, I cannot get enough of the two seasons of “Friends from College”.

Rotten Tomatoes is absolute bullshit if this show gets 26%. This is most likely because Nick Stoller has delivered so many gems over the years and every critic that gave this show a “thumbs down” had expectations set in the stratosphere. So Lebron is overrated because he didn’t 3 peat or win 6 rings but Jason “can’t put the ball in the hole” Williams is a problem???

“Friends from College” is an extremely underrated tv show comprising of a clumsy, incestuous friend group of 6 with classic ‘Apatow’ comedy sketches in every episode. The charismatic Key and stylish Annie Parisse manage to be likable even when they are committing some of the most heinous acts on screen. The list goes: Hannibal Lecter, Tom Sizemore from “Heat” and then Ethan and Sam from this show. Cobie Smulders who famously portrayed Robin from “How I met your Mother” shows range as Lisa, the simpleton cuckquean who is somehow also the breadwinner. Lisa is so well played that I didn’t think about Robin once while watching this show. Fred Savage, Nat Faxon, and Jae Suh Park complement the three main characters well but not sure they would hold their own in a scene without Key and Cobie.

I’m getting a bit tired of Billy Eichner playing the pretentious, frustrated, sophisticated, homosexual man but he does that role quite well. Very similar to Christoph Waltz collecting paychecks playing Hans Landa no matter what movie or show he’s in. To me the real revelation is Greg Germann. I had no clue who he was, but he plays the patrician cuckold that eventually has a nervous breakdown with such effectiveness. He carries the energy of the kid in a pickup game who looks like a clown but if you fuck with him, he will kick you in the nuts.

If you are procrastinator, do not start this show because it will be hard to turn the tv off. Nick Stoller is the type of friend you go to grab a couple of beers with and you end up in a titty bar taking tequila shots at 2 am so be careful!