Friends from College

Molly McGrady

Eleven,

            How are you? I thought I might write to you and try to get your mind off of everything that is going on and tell you about the TV show I most recently watched. Sadly it was terrible. It is called, ‘Friends From College,’ a new Netflix series that just aired recently. I’m sure you could guess what it’s about: some friends from college who are now in their 30’s and trying to figure out their lives with lots of drama and twists.

 I don’t know how much you know about college, being so young and never having experienced it yourself, but it’s definitely nothing like the portrayal of it in this show. Part of that could have been because the people in this show went to Harvard (a fact that they are all obsessed with). Still though I just think regardless of this fact they way they made college seem was all off.

            Another part of this show that really bothered me is that they just aren’t very good people. One of the biggest plot lines of the show is that two of the friends from college got married and the wife is having an affair with one of the other guys they went to college with. I hate when media normalizes things like this and tries to make them out to be ok. I don’t find things like this ok at all. I know you are young and these are the last kinds of things running through your mind, I just don’t ever want you to have to go through the horrible and heartbreaking experience of being cheated on. That is something that I have not experienced directly, but has affected my life greatly because that’s what ended my parents marriage. It’s just a very sad thing that I won’t delve into too much, but at the end of the day I will never understand it.

            A big part of what initially drew me to watch this show was the characters I saw on the cover of it, several of whom were actors I recognized, especially Cobie Smulders. She is in another show that is one of my all time favorites called How I Met Your Mother. I also figured that because of this all-star looking cast the show would be super funny. It wasn’t funny at all. I’m not sure if they were going more for a drama or comedy, but I’d say they failed in both of those genres. I think such an important part of being able to connect with a show is being able to connect with the characters, and I don’t think I could see myself connecting with any of these characters. This isn’t the fault of the actors portraying them at all though, but rather just bad writing. The show had a lot of potential, but they did not execute the ideas well or do this amazing cast justice.

            I’m not sure if you even have time these days to watch any TV with trying to figure out how to get out of the upside down, but if you do I’d say you should not watch Friends from College.