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Quick Answer: Watch every season of Friends on Max through Prime or Hulu, which both offer free trials.
When it hasn’t been your day, your week, your month or even your year, you can always tune into Friends and relive the memories of Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) making a truly awful trifle, or Ross (David Schwimmer) saying the wrong name at the altar.
In the wake of actor Matthew Perry‘s passing at age 54, Nick at Nite recently aired a 12-hour “Best of Chandler” run of episodes. The TV show, which premiered in 1994, ran for 10 full seasons on NBC, and it recently made our list of the 100 Best TV Sitcoms of All Time. “The idea of friends being the family you choose had its power, but mainly because they were these Friends, played by these people,” wrote Rolling Stone‘s Chief TV Critic Alan Sepinwall.
Along with rewatching the Friends: The Reunion, here’s how to watch all the past episodes of Friends online with Monica, Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Joey, and Chandler from your own couch.
How to Watch Friends Online on Max
You can stream every episode of Friends with an Max subscription. The streaming service starts at $9.99 a month for the most basic plan, though Amazon Prime members can get a seven-day free trial to Max right now as part of one of Amazon Prime Video’s best deals. With Max through Prime, you can binge all 10 seasons of the show with unlimited streaming, along with other acclaimed series like Insecure, The Sopranos and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
How to Watch Friends Free Online
Similar to Disney+, Max doesn’t currently offer a free trial, but there’s still a way for you to stream all of the streaming service’s content for free without paying the standard $9.99 monthly subscription.
Hulu also currently offers a 7-day free trial here that includes Max. You’ll get instant access to all of Hulu’s programming plus all of HBO’s programming to watch free for a week. Use it to stream Friends free online and catch up on other favorites too.
How to Watch Friends Without a Max Subscription
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Aside from Max, your best bet for watching the entire iconic series is by purchasing it on DVD or Blu-ray with this 25th anniversary collection. When you buy it, you’ll always have access to the hit show at any time, even if you don’t have WiFi or don’t want to pay to subscribe monthly to Max.
This box set gets you all all 10 season of Friends on Blu-ray or DVD, plus bonus behind-the scenes content, interviews and featurettes.
If your DVD-playing days are well behind you, you can still stream all the classic Friends episodes if you have an Amazon Prime account with Prime Video. You can buy each season of Friends on Prime for $19.19 each, or you can purchase specific episodes for $2.99 a piece, from memorable ones like when Phoebe performs “Smelly Cat” for the first time, to the one where Ross’ sandwich gets stolen or the one where a turkey gets stuck on Joey’s head.
Watching Friends on Prime is also a good option if you’ve never seen the show before and want to see what it’s all about. Once you download the episodes, they are yours to keep, so you can watch Friends online, on your TV or computer anytime you want.
Is Friends Still on Regular Cable?
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There’s still a way for you to watch Friends and feel like you’re at Central Perk with the cast even if you don’t have an Max or a Prime account.
TBS regularly streams Friends, playing every single episode in order, just like you would’ve watched them when they aired on TV (though this time, you don’t have to wait a week to watch the next episode).
You can sign up for a 7-day free trial for Hulu + Live TV, which lets you watch a ton of live TV, including access to channels like TBS, Bravo, CBS and ABC (though check ahead of time to see which ones are offered near you).
Another option: Sling TV is an easy way to watch channels like TBS if you’re not paying for a standard cable package at the moment, and you can sign up for a plan for just $10 for your first month of streaming.