Friends With Better Lives: Discussion Thread

FRIENDS WITH BETTER LIVES is a romantic comedy about six friends at different stages in their lives – married, divorced, newly engaged and single – who are outwardly happy, but secretly questioning if their friends have it better. Andi (Majandra Delfino) and Bobby (Kevin Connolly) are happily married with two kids but at times long for the days they had less responsibility and more fun; Will (James Van Der Beek) is newly single and preaching the bachelor lifestyle, but still pining for his ex-wife; Jules (Brooklyn Decker) and Lowell (Rick Donald) are high on their passionate new relationship; and Kate (Zoe Lister Jones) has a successful career but may take a swan dive into the L.A. River when she finds out her last remaining single friend, Jules, just got engaged. When it comes to relationships, these six friends are finding it a challenge to look at each other without wondering… who really has the better life?

Dana Klein and Aaron Kaplan are executive producers for Twentieth Century Fox Television. Emmy Award winner James Burrows directed the pilot.

A multi-cam show with six friends - I'm disappointed CBS gave up on this show with that formula so easily. I liked it and the cast too. I hope 20th TV can find another home for it (maybe NBC? lightning striking twice?). If not, I hope to see JVDB is another comedy that will last because he's really good at comedy - he was the funniest on this show and on The Bitch in Apartment 23.

A multi-cam show with six friends - I'm disappointed CBS gave up on this show with that formula so easily. I liked it and the cast too. I hope 20th TV can find another home for it (maybe NBC? lightning striking twice?). If not, I hope to see JVDB is another comedy that will last because he's really good at comedy - he was the funniest on this show and on The Bitch in Apartment 23.

The show was better than Apartment 23....the ratings picked up the week before but dropped last week. I think they should have given this show time enough to grow. JVDB can be a Liam recast on B&B.

Edited May 11, 201411 yr by Soapsuds