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DVD Friends - The Complete Seventh Season
Lots happened behind the scenes between seasons and early on in the seventh year of Friends, leaving audiences speculating this might be the last. Matthew Perry became seriously ill again, and returned looking more emaciated than ever. Courtney Cox regained weight, but despite finishing Scream 3 happily, things were already rocky with David Arquette. Much was made in the press about Aniston marrying Brad Pitt, of course, but the real news (allaying fans' fears) was NBC's expensive renewal of the cast for two years at $750,000 per episode each (more than six times their previous increase). On-screen, at least there was Chandler and Monica's engagement lasting the whole year, despite predictable ups and downs (e.g., "The One with the Truth About London" revealing that Monica fancied Joey). By the time we finally get to "The One with Chandler's Dad" (Kathleen Turner!), it seems inevitable that the two-part finale will be an insane mess--but with a happy-ish ending. Sure enough, "The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding" features Gary Oldman joining in the chaos as Chandler repeatedly goes missing.
Other star turns in the year were Seinfeld's Jason Alexander as a suicidal office manager, Susan Sarandon as soap queen bitch Jessica Lockhart, Denise Richards as one of Ross and Monica's endless number of cousins, and Winona Ryder as a surprise old friend, prompting "The One with Rachel's Big Kiss." But perhaps the most telling installment of this weirdly atmospheric year was "The One Where They All Turn Thirty." It suggested that maybe the Friends were all getting too old to carry on living their frivolous lives the same way after all. --Paul Tonks
Review(s): DVD Friends - The Complete Seventh Season
Please don't waste your money!
It's still friends so its still good, but please don't waste your money on this season guys. I have seen every season of Friends and own most of them except for Season 4 and this is the worst! If your looking for a good season of Friends, I suggest 2,5, or 6.
The worst season of "Friends"
The seventh season of "Friends" represents the show at it's worst. It seems as if the writers and producers were running out of steam and were losing some of the hillarious creativity that made the show Must See for the previous six seasons. The actors did what they could to try to elevate the material but, for the only time during the show's run, the cast seemed bored and detatached. Something was just amiss during this season in general. The show had a strange feel to it and to a new viewer, the once mighty "Friends" may have seemed like a medicore sitcom that was overhyped for no reason. Maybe for the first time the loyal fans of the show felt that maybe it was time to bow out (thankfully season eight reinvogorated the writers, the cast, and the audience and provided a renassiance of sorts that would last until the end of the show's run). The entire season revolved around Monica and Chandler's wedding and every other storyline seems to be filler until the writer's could marry the two off in a May-Sweeps season ending episode. I believe this was the season when Perry's drug addiction was reaching its climax and, for the first and only time, his personal troubles began to affect his acting (thankfully Perry recovered and did the right thing by taking time off to get his problems in order). Chandler who once was arguably the funniest character on primetime, now became a corny shadow of himself. Monica reached an all time controlling high as she planned her wedding, and Cox again finds herself in a thankless role. To her credit, Cox does make Monica amusing and still tries to retain her likeability, but the writers prove too strong for the nearly unfailing Cox and Monica becomes a caricature (it will still be another season or two before Monica is restored to a multi-layered charming character again). Rachel's major storyline involved her relationship with her much younger assistant Tag. Rachel's work situations are always funny and Aniston again plays Rachel to a charming, if somewhat befuddled, T (as most fans know however it is not until season 8 when Aniston is really given the material and opportunity to shine). Phoebe is again not given a lot to do this season but mainly support the other characters, and again, Kudrow proves to be unfailing in her portrayal. Kudrow is maybe the only actor who is not bogged down with the material this season and she saves even some of the worst episodes (i.e "TOW Rosita Dies"- hysterical Phoebe moments as a telemarketer trying to stop Jason Alexander from committing suicide). LeBlanc's Joey gets to reprise his role as Dr. Drake Ramoray on DOOL. LeBlanc is funny and, along with Kudrow, he is also able to provide some memorable lines and scenes in an otherwise bleak season. Schwimmer's Ross is not really given much of a story arc this season and Schwimmer is effective and funny in his role. While season seven is problematic, it is still "Friends" after all so there are bound to be some meorable episodes, including, "TOW Monica's Thunder," "TOW Phoebe's Cookies" (absolutely hysterical Pheebs/Monica story and scenes), "TOW Rachel's Assistant," "TOW Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs" (it's a Thanksgiving episode so it's bound to be a highlight), "TOW They're Up All Night," "TOW They All Turn Thirty" (Aniston feels so funny and real here and the flashbacks to all their thirtieth birthdays are classic), "TOW Monica and Chandler's Wedding" (a great episode all around every actor is finally back on their game here and the episode itself feels like it belongs in one of "Friends" earlier and funnier seasons. This episode also provides one of the greatest shocks in "Friends" history and sets the stage for one of the stories that will rejuvenate the following season..Rachel's pregnancy).
Friends: Season Seven - That Bagpipe episode and The Wedding are worth the price alone!
Seven Years into the show, you can tell it is starting to get worn down a bit. However, this season doesn't come with all negativity. This season has its share of Great episodes!
The episode in which Ross plays the bagpipes and asks everybody to sing along then Phoebe does its so damn funny I seriously laughed all night about it.
Another highlight is watching two of our Friends get Married.....for real not drunk.
Season Seven also sees Phoebe moving in back to her old house after it had been burnt, Rachel deciding to live with Joey and starting a relationship with her assistant Kip, Ross well, just being Ross.
I wasn't completely dissapointed with this Season, but I could tell from the first few episodes that by now it had started to lose a little steam, but of course would come right back in later seasons.
I don't know if I would totally reccomend this season out of all 10, it sure isnt the worst, but you will find better.
But PLEASE if you can get hold of it SEE THE EPISODE THE ONE WITH JOEYS NEW BRAIN and see that bagpipe scene, ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOMENTS OF ALL 10 YEARS FOR ME!
Anyway, enough with the bagpipes,
My Personal Top 5 Episodes of this season are:
The One Where They're Up All Night
The One Where They All Turn Thirty
The One with Joey's New Brain
The One with the Cheap Wedding Dress
The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding
Overall, well not the best, not the worst, and if you are pondering buying it, Pick Season 8 over Season 7.
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