FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE

As a huge fan of The Wonder Years, my favorite television show as a teenager, I was excited to hear that Fred Savage is in a new Netflix series called FRIENDS FROM COLLEGE.  Then, I watched the first of eight episodes.  I have no intentions of watching the remaining seven.  In fact, it was painful to even watch the first one all the way through, and it is just a half hour program.  Categorized as comedy, this is far from it.  “Raunchy smut,” would be a better description.  It is most unsettling to hear Fred Savage use profanity, but his character is the least of what makes this ill-conceived show so unbearable.

 

The story starts out with a vulgar sex scene, between two characters who we later find out are married to other people, the woman even having children.  When one of those children, age four, is shown on screen, he uses the absolute most disgusting and offensive word in American English, that blunt word that starts with the letter “c” (not cookie) and is automatically offensive to American women and to American men who respect women.  The child actor may grow up to resent the way his innocence was exploited in a sick attempt to entertain the lowest breed of American scum.  Even Howard Stern has never sunk this low in an attempt at shock value. 

 

Colby Smulders who played Robin on How I Met Your Mother, plays a character who is foul-mouthed, unappealing, not relatable, and uninviting, which essentially describes all the characters on this show.

 

Nicholas Stoller and his wife Francesca Delbanco who co-wrote this abomination to decency have created something that never should have existed.  It is an insult to all who watch television that anyone would think that this atrocity of a program would have any target audience.  Participation in this affront to entertainment will likely be harmful to the careers of everyone involved.  Save your dime; this deplorable excuse for comedy is not worth anyone’s time.