Friends

1994 • TMDB 8.4 • 10 seasons • 228 episodes • Comedy • NBC

Where to Watch

In the United States, Friends streams on HBO Max (10 seasons), HBO Max Amazon Channel (10 seasons), YouTube TV (10 seasons) and TBS (2 seasons), and through the Hulu HBO Max bundle, the Disney+ Hulu HBO Max bundle and the Starz Amazon Channel with HBO Max Amazon Channel bundle (10 seasons each). It is also available to buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store and Fandango At Home (10 seasons each). Availability checked against US listings on October 29, 2026.

Overview

When Rachel Green walks into Central Perk in a wedding dress, she is not just crashing her old friend Monica Geller’s life — she is walking into the living room where six twenty-somethings will spend the next ten years figuring out adulthood together. Friends, created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane, follows Rachel, Monica, Ross, Chandler, Joey and Phoebe through the jobs, breakups, weddings, babies and Thanksgiving disasters that defined a generation of television. Set mostly in two apartments across the hall and the coffeehouse below, the show turns ordinary problems — a bad date, a lost job, a will-they-won’t-they romance — into endlessly quotable comedy, anchored by a cast whose chemistry made the group feel like a real family. Ross and Rachel’s on-again, off-again love story became the template for sitcom romance, while Chandler’s jokes, Joey’s acting dreams and Phoebe’s songs gave every character a signature. A decade after its finale, Friends remains the ultimate comfort watch: funny, warm and always there for you.

Creator and Main Cast

Friends was created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane. The main cast includes:

• Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green (228 episodes)
• Courteney Cox as Monica Geller (228 episodes)
• Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay (228 episodes)
• Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani (228 episodes)
• Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing (228 episodes)
• David Schwimmer as Ross Geller (228 episodes)
• James Michael Tyler as Gunther (145 episodes)
• Elliott Gould as Jack Geller (19 episodes)
• Maggie Wheeler as Janice (18 episodes)

Seasons Snapshot

• Seasons 1–2 (1994–1995) — 24 episodes each: Rachel joins the group, and Ross and Rachel’s will-they-won’t-they begins.
• Seasons 3–4 (1996–1997) — 25 and 23 episodes: “We were on a break,” Monica and Chandler’s secret romance, and the London wedding.
• Seasons 5–6 (1998–1999) — 23 episodes each: Chandler and Monica go public, and Ross’s marriages unravel.
• Seasons 7–8 (2000–2001) — 23 episodes each: Monica and Chandler’s wedding, and Rachel’s pregnancy.
• Seasons 9–10 (2002–2003) — 23 and 17 episodes: Rachel and Emma, Monica and Chandler’s adoption, and the finale “The Last One.”

Why Watch Friends?

• The defining sitcom of the 1990s — and still the benchmark every ensemble comedy is measured against.
• Six leads with once-in-a-generation chemistry; every character gets iconic moments.
• Endlessly rewatchable: 228 episodes of sharp, warm, quotable comedy.
• Ross and Rachel, Monica and Chandler, and the Central Perk couch became pop-culture landmarks.
• The ultimate comfort watch — funny on the first viewing and even funnier on the tenth.

Trailer

Watch the official trailer on YouTube: Friends: the Complete Series Collection (Warner Bros. Rewind)