I'll Be There For You: The One about Friends

I'll Be There For You: The One about Friends

2018 • 240 pages

Ratings9

Average rating3.4

15

I love Friends, and wanted to love this book, but the info about the show was very surface-level. Even so, I was tempted to give this book four stars. But the last two chapters were awful. The writer clearly had an agenda and felt compelled to shoehorn in a “Me Too” segment which added nothing and really came over petty. She also threw some shade at Jerry Seinfield, who she obviously doesn't like, and just had to get some barbs in there. (She says he's said awful things lately about Bill Cosby and autism. If she did the slightest bit of research, she would know that Seinfeld is autistic and that he didn't defend Bill Cosby.)

Criticizing a show that is beloved is fine. I enjoy a long hard look at things we love. But criticizing it for being made in 1994 and not 2018 is very weird.

December 2, 2018