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    Friends Who Have Changed Each Other For Good

    The lasting friendships in these Netflix series survive career blunders, divorce, and much more.

    By Caitlin Busch
    Nov. 21, 2025

It’s been said that people come into our lives for a reason. The best of friends help us learn and grow, providing challenges and new perspectives. Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda (Ariana Grande), the stars of Wicked: For Good, know a thing or two about that, as do the pals in these series on Netflix. So, “like a comet pulled from orbit” or “a stream that meets a boulder,” follow these friends as they help each other change for the better. Or, at the very least, change for good.

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Grace and Frankie

Multihyphenates Jane Fonda (Barbarella) and Lily Tomlin (Nashville) lead this comedy series about unlikely friends Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Tomlin), whose husbands of 40 years leave them for each other. While they couldn’t be more different — Grace is a prickly former cosmetics mogul and Frankie is a quirky, spiritual artist — they strike up a tentative friendship built on mutual loneliness. However, their Odd Couple dynamic soon becomes the most significant, defining relationship of their lives. Sam Waterston (Law & Order), Martin Sheen (The West Wing), Brooklyn Decker (Just Go With It), Ethan Embry (Empire Records), June Diane Raphael (Weapons), and Baron Vaughn (Mystery Science Theater 3000) also co-star.

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Friends from College

Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele), Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Annie Parisse (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days), Nat Faxon (The Way Way Back), Fred Savage (The Wonder Years), and Jae Suh Park (A Great Divide) star in Friends From College, a comedy about a group of, yes, friends from college who are still struggling to navigate their lives and relationships in their 40s despite having attended a prestigious university: Harvard. Francesca Delbanco (Platonic) and Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors) co-created this series that ran for two seasons and also includes Billy Eichner (Bros), Ike Barinholtz (The Studio), Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live), and Seth Rogen (Knocked Up).

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Dead to Me

This black comedy stars Christina Applegate (Jesse) and Linda Cardellini (Freaks and Geeks) as a pair of friends bonded by tragedy with a twist. Jen (Applegate) recently lost her husband in a car accident and is in a dark place when she meets Judy (Cardellini) in a grief support group. The strangely upbeat Judy claims to be grieving her fiancé, who she says died of a heart attack. Little does Jen know that Judy’s fiancé is alive and well — and that Judy was involved in the crash that killed her husband. James Marsden (27 Dresses), Max Jenkins (The Mysteries of Laura), and Sam McCarthy (All These Small Moments) co-star.

Tuca & Bertie

Created by Lisa Hanawalt (BoJack Horseman), Tuca & Bertie is a 10-episode animated comedy starring Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip) and Ali Wong (Beef) as the eponymous, anthropomorphic birds. Tuca Toucan (Haddish) is impulsive and dramatic while her bestie Bertie Songthrush (Wong) veers more shy and anxious. Despite their polar opposite personalities, they’re bonded by their love for each other as they stumble into avian adulthood side by side. Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), Nicole Byer (Nailed It!), Richard E. Grant (Saltburn), Reggie Watts (Creative Control), and more provide additional voices.

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