What is Friends about?
Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.
Friends (1994)
Six New Yorkers navigate young adulthood, finding heartwarming companionship and witty comfort in their shared struggles.
Cozy, with wholesome humor. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
80
Must Watch
CouchRot Score, from 10 cinephile ratings
Streaming on Max.
Friends parents guide
Nothing past what a TV-14 promises: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated TV-14, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
ConfidenceDialing In
10 ratings deep. Getting dialed in.
ConsensusNear Unanimous
DividedNear unanimous
How the 10 ratings land
Cast and crew
Created byMarta Kauffman, David Crane
StarringJennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer
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