Friends with Better Lives
Friends with Better Lives
TV-14 | 31 March 2014 (USA)

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    Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.
    Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
    Winifred The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.
    Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
    SnoopyStyle Bobby (Kevin Connolly) and Andi (Majandra Delfino) are the comfortable couple with the baby. Kate (Zoe Lister Jones) is the hopelessly single girl. Jules (Brooklyn Decker) is hot and quickly gets engaged to healthy eatery owner Lowell (Rick Donald). Will (James Van Der Beek) is just getting a divorce not used to the single life.The cast is mostly good. I love ZLJ's single girl persona. I like Connolly in Entourage. I haven't seen Majandra since long ago on Roswell. I like them together although I think they could be more inappropriate. Brooklyn Decker is surprisingly good for a model-turn-actor. Rick Donald is odd and doesn't seem to fit. He's the squeaky wheel. And James Van Der Beek is James Van Der Beek.The Friends comparison is very unfortunate. It's probably a death nail for the show. The title is horribly clunky. It's suppose to mean that everybody thinks their friends have better lives. I don't know why that's funny. And that's not really what's going on in the show. It got canceled 5 episodes in and really didn't have much of a chance.
    shelley-969-374081 My boyfriend and I were sitting watching the premiere after the finale of HIMYM and always go into new shows with eyes open since you never know. We ended up liking it and laughing the whole time. You have your newly single divorced guy who is living with his best friend who he also works with. Who is also married with one child and another on the way. Then there is your super single girl who has dry sarcasm and pretty much a great outlook on the tough world of dating. (and she helps the newly divorced James Van Der Beek meet women) Then there is your typical newly engaged couple that have only known each other for a few weeks of actual dating. Kevin Connelly is great, he has had some good one-liners the last few episodes and also my boyfriend loved Brooklyn Decker for the eye candy alone and found the vegan episode where she houses the cheeseburger hysterical. This could go either way this season (stay together or break up) We ended up liking it and hope its a CBS keeper for the fall. All in all we hope it stays.
    she_talks_angels2000 This feels like they are trying to be too much like HIMYM, or Friends. Didn't really capture my attention at all. The characters are pretty shallow and need more depth. Needed to be a stand out show if it was going to take the place of HIMYM. It bordered on the last two seasons of HIMYM, which I stopped watching because it seemed like they were struggling for new story lines.I think maybe with the next few shows if there was more character development they might be able to pull this off, but as of right now I feel it will be a struggle to keep most people interested.
    Vipul Jain I have a problem with the way this show was advertised. "Makers of Friends" and an ad which had all the FRIENDS tag lines. They should have promoted it for what it is, and the rating wouldn't be this low.I for one knew better and didn't compare FWBL to anything. And I enjoyed it. The casting is fine for me except for the engaged guy. I already know Kevin from one of my all time favorites Entourage. Not sure about Majandra, Brooklyn is most probably for the wow factor of the show. But Zoe Lister, you'll just love her cynic role.It is just one of those sitcoms where the story is about the life of a group of friends, but no matter how many times we've seen this story (HIMYM, Friends, TBBT), we can never get enough. I for one, connect best with Zoe.Overall, I'll definitely follow this show and see how it turns out. And you too should give it a chance. It's not FRIENDS Part 2, it's a NEW SHOW! 9/10