Critic Reviews

It has sharp writing and endearing characters.

BFF takes a less than inventive situation and turns it into something close to sitcom gold, thanks to the fact that creators Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham have taken the time to write believable characters saying legitimately funny things.

The series is highly relatable and, at times, pretty funny.

[A] low-key but charming NBC comedy.

The show takes the time to give a few realistic dimensions to the characters' emotional lives, and each actor in the core trio has sharp comic timing.

Refreshingly, they try to convey their likability by being...likable.

Missteps are balanced by bits that ring oddly true.

Best Friends Forever is better than a blank screen, but beyond setting what I think might be a 2011-12 season record--0 to vagina joke in 15 seconds--it doesn't do much to break through the sitcom clutter.

As constructed, though, the series has no teeth, and a sensibility that's slim even for cable.

BFF is not bad--classify this as another Young Urban New York-based sitcom--but it's not great, either, or certainly not smart enough, or different enough, or flat-out funny enough to deserve anything other than the bleak future that now appears preordained.