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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 full episode list
Release Date:
11 September 2000 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
A look at the lives, loves, and losses of four different women, Toni (Jones), Maya (Brooks), Lynn (White), and Joan (Ross).
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Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 8 wins & 37 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(34 articles)
DVD Playhouse--October 2009
 (From The Hollywood Interview. 15 October 2009, 12:34 AM, PDT)

The Game: Actress Says Sitcom Coming Back; Is It True This Time?
 (From TVSeriesFinale. 12 October 2009, 5:14 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
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Cast

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Reginald C. Hayes ... William Jerome Dent / ... (60 episodes, 2000-2007)

Tracee Ellis Ross ... Joan Clayton / ... (46 episodes, 2000-2007)

Golden Brooks ... Maya Wilkes / ... (44 episodes, 2000-2007)
Persia White ... Lynn Searcy / ... (44 episodes, 2000-2007)

Khalil Kain ... Darnell Wilkes / ... (41 episodes, 2001-2007)

Keesha Sharp ... Monica / ... (40 episodes, 2002-2008)
Jill Marie Jones ... Toni Childs / ... (31 episodes, 2000-2006)

Jason Pace ... Dr. Todd Garrett / ... (30 episodes, 2002-2006)
Tanner Scott Richards ... Jabari Wilkes (28 episodes, 2000-2006)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
30 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Australia:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
After the sixth season, the show was picked up by The CW because UPN merged with The WB to form The CW. more
Quotes:
Julie Fageaux: So... lunch?
Maya Wilkes: Yeah.
Julie Fageaux: Soho?
Maya Wilkes: I said yeah, bitch!
Julie Fageaux: Okay, you know what I'm just trying to do my job, I'm trying to meet your needs. I love your book and I don't know why you feel the need to come in and attack me
Maya Wilkes: What did I do to you?
Julie Fageaux: You called me a bitch
Maya Wilkes: You called me a ho!
Julie Fageaux: OK... Soho is a neighborhood.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Gilmore Girls: The Great Stink (#7.5)" (2006) more

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19 out of 23 people found the following comment useful.
Fabulous!, 30 September 2004
Author: dcohn (glamcandy@yahoo.com) from LA

The sitcom is a dying art. There's hardly any narrative TV left in general, and there are way fewer quality comedies than dramas. Girlfriends deserves way more attention, and though it is good for their ratings to be herded in with the rest of the "urban" comedies on UPN, I think it's heads and shoulders above any of the other shows. In fact, and no offense to fans of other UPN fare, I think this show is surrounded on all sides by just plain awful programs - the writing on the other shows is a notch above Saved by the Bell. (maybe that's a *little* too harsh).

The dialogue and the acting on Girlfriends is sophisticated and natural at the same time. The five leads have great chemistry and timing. I think it's taken a few seasons (and the smart decision to get rid of Joan's lame voice-over fantasy bites) for the comedy to become less broad and for the characters to develop past "types", but that's always the case when you have to set up a sitcom world. Every sitcom I can think of starts out with stereotypes and builds character depth as the seasons goes on.

Even in my position as a white chick (maybe a little more attuned to African American culture than the average), I think I can say that most shows about middle-class black people are terrified of seeming "too black", they've got Cosbyitus. Girlfriends seems to be more on the inside-track.

Maybe the show isn't representative of every woman in the black community, or the black everywoman, but who says it has to? Sex in the City sure as hell wasn't representative of 30something white women in New York. We want a little escapism, and Girlfriends offers all the pretty people and the pretty houses and the pretty clothing (the BEST-DRESSED show on TV by far! Who is their stylist??), *and* the polished writing and performances.

Oh, yeah, and it's ***hella funny***.

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