Friends - The Complete Fifth Season

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Summary: My Favorite
Review: This season has, what I feel, is the best episode of Friends, ever. The One In Vegas is fabulous. All of the characters have something going on, and all of their situations come together in hilairious form. This is the first complete season that I purchased, specifically because it contained this episode. The is definitely the one must-have season.

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Summary: The Best Season
Review: "Friends" Season 5 is one of the best, if not the best, Friends seasons! It's filled with laughs, tears, and best of all a budding relationship! This season is a MUST for dire-heart Chandler and Monica fans!

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Summary: Friends at its peak
Review: This is the first Friends season I've bought, and was very impressed. Some might wonder why I didn't begin with season one, but here's why. For fans of the show who are just beginning their collection, start with the best the show has to offer. And that's season five. On the other hand, for viewers who aren't too fimiliar with the show yet want to get into it, it only makes sense to start with the first season.

Season five contains possibly the best episode throughout the course of the series, "The One With All The Thanksgiving," where everyone relives Thanksgiving day horror stories from their past. Other notable events from this season are the fallout from Ross' and Emily's botched wedding, Phoebe's birth to her brother's triplets, and the evolution of the Chandler-Monica angle.

The four-disc DVD, obviously including all seaosn five shows, is very well-done. The audio/video transfer, which some people have questioned, is fine. I don't see how people could complain about its quality.

The menu's are easy to navigate, and snazzy at that. Next to each episode title, there's a coffee cup. If you click it, you can watch a preview of the episode. It's a great way to decide which shows you want to watch and when.

The extras, while not as good as they should be, are sufficient. There's commentary show higher-ups on three shows, a 45 minute Discovery Channel documentary on what it takes to create a Friends episode, Friends on location in London, an easter egg, and Guther's preview of season six.

Friends has had good seasons before, and after, season five... but none better than season five.

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Summary: Awesome
Review: This season is defintely one of, if not the best (there were some great parts in season 4 too). But this season is so funny, especially the first half, M and C hiding there relationship while falling in love, physical comedy done very well, especially by Ross, the will they won't they R and R. Joey's freaking out over things and having to keep secrets, Phoebe's emotional good-bye to the triplets. It sets up things that will play on in later seasons, and shows a different angle, version to love than R and R (which was all ready great).

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Summary: CLASSIC!
Review: I have collected each FRIENDS season on dvd thus far...just finished season 5..it was one of the funniest..I couldn't stop watching one after another! The actors characters are richer and more mature..even funnier as seasons go by...they grow and are closer, and we feel closer to them. I really enjoyed the "Behind the Scenes" documentary included in the season 5 set..fascinating! a keeper!

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Summary: Great season, great features!
Review: as with all the other seasons of friends on dvd, i have thourougly enjoyed this installment. not only was the dvd FABULOUS, but the extra features made it all the better. My favorite was the "The one that goes behind the scenes- the one hour special about the making of friends." you learn so much about what goes on behind the scenes, info you never knew before!

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Summary: half way through
Review: wow, season 5 out on DVD and seasons 6 and 7 coming in the next few months, there has never been a better time to start building your DVD collection.

Season 5 is great, every episode is funny and can easily be watched over and over.

Features.
The features are great this time, a 40+ minute feature about the making of an episode, very interesting to watch.

Buy it, buy it now, then later buy seasons 6 and 7.

What are you doing here still? Go buy it.

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Summary: I laugh just thinking about Season 5!
Review: This may be one of the best seasons of comedic television ever. Just when i think I found the funniest episode of Friends Season 5, I watch the next one and keep right on laughing. This Collection of episodes is priceless.

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Summary: WOW
Review: My wife and I have Friends marathons where we we watch at least 4 episodes in a row. No matter what mood we were in when we started we are always full of laughter and good cheer after. We plan on buying all 10-years as they are released.

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Summary: Move over Ross and Rachel, here comes Chandler and Monica
Review: You have to admire the symmetry of "Friends: The Complete Fifth Season," which opens with Ross getting married and ends with Ross getting married. It reminds me of "Gone With the Wind," which begins with Scarlet pining for a man she cannot have and ends the same way. However, the key difference is that Monica and Chandler are a lot more fun than Ashley and Miss Melly ever were, that is for sure. For that reason Season Five is important in the "Friends" chronology, because it begins the second half of the series, which is operationally defined by the fact that as this point the Monica-Chandler relationship is suddenly transformed from a joke in the finale from the previous season into a driving force for both the season and the series. Even though we are now starting the final half of the final season, I think a lot of "Friends" fans are rooting more for Monica to adopt a baby (if not for Monica to actually be pregnant), then they are at this point for Ross and Rachel to finally end up together for the final time. While not as good as the fourth season, this one once again shows that having multiple story arcs for most of the characters is what works best for the series.

Best Shows of the Fifth Season: "The One After Ross Says Rachel," not just because Ross is trying to salvage his new marriage before it is even official, but because Monica and Chandler cannot keep their hands or their thoughts off of one another; "The One with All the Kissing," because of the stupid Not-in-New York rule, Rachel's heartfelt admission to Ross, and Phoebe's water breaking; "The One with All the Resolutions," because Chandler is not allowed to make fun of Ross's new leather pants; "The One Where Everybody Finds Out," because they don't know that we know they know we know and because Chandler knows something none of those that think they know happen to know; and "The One in Vegas Part 2," because of the power of a hard eight.

This season has one of my favorite story arcs, as Monica and Chandler try to keep their romance secret from as many Friends for as long as possible, but there are also a lot of episodes that are average at best (e.g., "The One with the Yeti," "The One Where Ross Moves In," "The One Where Rachel Smokes") to drag it down a bit. I was thinking that this season was going to grade out at a 4.5 that would get rounded up just for the surprise ending that no one every saw come (which, strangely enough, would explain why it was a surprise), but there are just too many average episodes ("The One with the Inappropriate Sister," "The One With Joey's Bag," "The One Where Ross Can't Flirt," etc.). When I realized that there were more episodes on my average list than on my best list, I had to revise my rating appropriately. Yet this season has some of my favorite moments that the highs stopped me from seeing the lows.