Customer Reviews
Best of Comedy - By: A. O'Malley, 15 Nov 2006 
There are funnier things than Friends on television, but nothing as long-lasting & consistently funny. In Season 8, the acting & directing (as well as visual quality) have improved from the early series, whilst it has lost none of its inventiveness & sparkle.
The season kicks off right after Monica & Chandler's "I do" & with the finding that Rachel is with child. Her pregnancy comes up in alll 24 episodes. From the identity of the father ("Oh no- don't tell me it's her!"), to the possibility of marriage ("What, because that's your answer to everything?") & breaking the news to the parents (I particularly loved Rach explaining to her father why Ross won't marry her: "He says I'm damaged goods"). The question comes up: can the pair commit themselves to raising the child together whilst continuing their separate love lives as before? Certainly, it's not the sort of thing that blights lives: Rachel has a stable career & can afford to refuse a husband. It is perhaps in recognition of how anaesthetised it is that halfway through the season, she meets a much younger woman with far fewer financial means in the same situation. Interestingly, there is no mention whatsoever of the possibility of abortion.
Also involving R&R, an old friend from High School returns bearing an old & dark hatred (played by Brad Pitt, who is not mentioned in the credits for some reason) & that old favourite, a woman demanding sex from a man (nobody as attractive as Jennifer Aniston can be so pathetic at sexual provocation). Meanwhile, see Phoebe spell out her name ("P as in Phoebe..."), Joey reminiscing about his first good review ("Everything else was just terrible; Joey Tribbiani was abysmal."), Monica splurging on a pair of ill-fitting boots ("They're killing me, one toe at a time!") & Chandler taking a bath with oils & perfumes (but also a toy boat, which makes it a man's bath). And plenty of others that would seem flat & boring on paper.
What reallly puzzles me is how devoid of features the DVD release is. No interviews, commentaries or even scene selection (very annoying). However, they do promise: `Web enabled' (what's that?) `Scene access' (no, only episode access) `Interactive menus' (like selling a car as having a waterproof petrol tank) `Original TV broadcast episodes, each containing "never before seen" footage, exclusive to DVD' (I'm sure Hegel would love that). There's a dubbing in French, but it's awful (use subtitles). The franchise deserves much better.
FAB FRIENDS!!!! - By: , 05 Sep 2005 series 8 is such a fab series of friends with every episode guaranteed to make you laugh. Ross' reaction to finding out that Rachel is pregnant is just hilarious, the episode where Chandler takes a bath makes you cry with laughter & the one starring Brad Pitt with the 'I hate Rachel club' is amazing (not only beacuse Brad's in it, it's extremley funny!) Altogether it's a great series with some of the funniest episodes of Friends ever seen. I would recommend this series to any Friends fan I cannot stop watching it!!!!
true friends!!!! - By: V. Heritage, 13 Jun 2005 The best prog. ever has to be FRIENDS!! It's soooo funny I laughed so hard I nearly cried. There's Chandler he's sometimes annoying but he's funny. Monica is very organised. Ross is a bit of a science geek,something suprising happens to Rachel & Ross! Joey is REALLY thick thats why he's so funny. Pheobe is a mad hippy she is so cool!FRIENDS IS THE BEST EVER!
I LOVE IT!!!!!
Simply wonderful - By: John Corbett, 26 Feb 2005 I have to be honest from the start & say I was never the biggest fan of Friends. I never managed to get into it, finding it amusing at best & only watching it casuallly if there was nothing else on.
However, that was some time ago & on the high praise from some friends of mine, I decided to have a gamble on one of these new re-releases of the well-known series, starting with this one because it's got the episode with Brad Pitt in from the 'we hate Rachel Green club.' This is kind of sad now they've split in real life, but I've always been curious to see this episode. What I wasn't prepared for in the least was the comedy, addictiveness & surprising depth this series explores.
It begins with people discovering that Rachel is pregnant. Some funny situations lead to a huge laugh when we discover who the father is, & yet another memorable moment when the father himself discovers the truth! How Rachel & those close to her deal with her pregnancy & the inevitable events leading up to it is often funny, but very moving at times too, giving a real insight into what it must be like for single mothers going through pregnancies, minus the comedy moments of course.
This series is exceptional & I'll be watching it over & over again for a long time to come. I recommend you do the same. Haven't finished it yet though, so I can't wait to see how it alll turns out!
review of friends series 8 dvd - By: , 03 Nov 2004 this series was wicked,man.the writing was always fly,but this series was written to the max.
rachel is up the duff due to a brief evenings lovin with ross!
monica & chandla are now the bings & alll sorts of merry japes occur because of this.
joey still rules & always has a lot of women.
feebee is still the most annoying one in friends & hopefully she dies in series 9.
if you love friends then you have to get this,it is well wicked mon.
