Friends: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] [2002] [1994] [Region Free]

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Audio Commentaries: The long-running series' tenth and final season walks away with three farewell commentaries: "The One With the Late Thanksgiving" with executive producers Kevin S. Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane, "The One Where the Stripper Cries" with Bright, Kauffman and Crane, and "The Last One" with Bright, Kauffman and Crane.

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Music Video (SD, 2 minutes): The Flaming Lips' "Phoebe Battles the Pink Robots," a ballad version of "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" from the band's album of the same name. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Of course, 'Friends' wasn't perfect. For every enjoyable celebrity cameo, there are a lot of needless ones, such as an entirely gratuitous and unfunny cold open featuring Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. 'Friends' also had a terrible propensity for stealth clip shows. Most TV series have one, maybe two clip episodes, and the show is either all clips or has a short introduction by one of the actors. 'Friends' tried to integrate their clip shows with actual plot, meaning that you can't entirely skip those episodes, but big chunks of them will be material you've already seen. And there are four or five scattered throughout the show. In retrospect, season one feels uneven, and season nine takes a huge dip in quality, starting with the poorly plotted "The One Where No One Proposes", and then starting a major plot where Chandler has to move to Tulsa for work. Season nine is also where you'll find the aforementioned "The One with the Male Nanny", which shows just how poorly Chandler's character was being handled by that point. Friends has finally arrived on Blu-ray. The good news? Friends has finally arrived on Blu-ray. The episodes have never looked better before. The bad news? None of the extended episodes included on DVD before are included here. None of the episodes are presented with a lossless audio presentation. The episodes are technically not presented with the original 1.33:1 aspect ratio (although... Friends does look so amazing in widescreen you might not even care about this at all). The set includes fewer brand-new extras than some were anticipating. The good news? Friends has finally arrived on Blu-ray. The episodes have never looked better before. What's Up with Your Friends? (SD, 9 minutes): Brief montages highlighting the friends and other characters.Friends' isn't a masterpiece, but it managed to provide years of consistently excellent laughs, supplied by characters that were both distinctly unique but also highly relatable. Its cultural influence can still be felt, so some of the gags, jokes, and references will feel familiar even to first-timers. For fans, getting the whole series in one Blu-ray box set will be the perfect chance to revisit their favorite moments, and get to hang out in Central Perk again with some of their best friends, who are so welcome that they might as well be part of the family. Behind the Style: The Look of Friends (SD, 20 minutes): Substantial documentaries are few and far between, but "Behind the Style" is a refreshingly substantiative trip behind the scenes with costume designer Debra McGuire, hair stylist Jonathan Hanousek and makeup artist Robin Siegel. Friends' follows six people, high-strung Ross Geller (David Schwimmer), his obsessive compulsive sister Monica (Courteney Cox), her spoiled roommate Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), their across the hall neighbors Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) and Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc), and kooky musician/masseuse Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow). The show opens with Rachel running out on her wedding to a wealthy but unexciting guy and re-entering the lives of Monica, her high school best friend, and Ross, who has long harbored a crush on her. Over the course of ten seasons, people around the world would follow the antics of these six friends, turning the show into a TV phenomenon and catapulting the cast into the realm of stardom.

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The Ones with More 'Friends' (SD, 111 min) – During the original airings of 'Friends', NBC sometimes requested shows with longer runtimes for sweeps and other special events. Four of the original broadcast super-sized episodes are included here: "The One Where Rosita Dites", "The One Where They All Turn Thirty", "The One with Joey's New Brain", and "The One with the Truth About London". Unfortunately, all four are offered in SD 1.33:1 video with 2.0 audio.I've been a huge friends fan my entire life and own the dvd series 1-10, so before friends was even on Netflix I had probably watched each ep at least 5 times on the dvds. Anyone who has done the same (or remembers it airing), are you bothered by the shortened episodes on Netflix? They cut out so much dialogue each ep that is SO glaring to me, and it makes me sad for new friends fans that they will never see the full jokes and are missing out on so much. But while the group might appear as every-people, the individual characters have wonderfully charming and three-dimensional personalities. While this is a sitcom, the great thing about having ten seasons is that it gave almost everyone a chance to develop in a host of important situations. You get to see the true size of Joey's big heart, and what happens when you break it an episode like "The One with Chandler in a Box". Phoebe, who often appears to be a space cadet, is also the most perceptive, often knowing what everyone else thinks and feels before they do. Ross and Rachel of course have their famous on-again, off-again relationship (that's really more off than on), but both also develop as individuals. Rachel in particular has a great arc, going from the rich brat who came in from the rain to a strong, independent single mother.