Friends

By Alan Sepinwall(asepinwall@starledger.com) • Courteney Cox has a tendency to sometimes try too hard -- this was particularly obvious in the later years of "Friends" -- and I think we got a bit of flop sweat in "My Jerks." (Plus, the moment when she punches JD in the arm for thinking she and Mr. Hicks were lovers sounded exactly like she was p...

By Alan Sepinwall(asepinwall@starledger.com) I've been on record as saying that NBC was making a bad business decision to push Jay out the door so the could give "The Tonight Show" to Conan O'Brien. Even though I vastly prefer Conan's show, Jay is a proven commodity, a rare broadcast star in an age of ever-tighter narrowcasting. All along...

By Alan Sepinwall(asepinwall@starledger.com) Jennifer Aniston, on the other hand, almost did. I thought she was very funny and un-Rachel-like, but it felt her presence turned Liz Lemon into a bystander in her own show, in the same way that Tracy Jordan's arrival turned "The Girlie Show" into "TGS with Tracy Jordan." (Would this be "3R wi...