Friends with Better Lives: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Friends with Better Lives is a romantic comedy about six friends at different stages in their lives - married, divorced, newly engaged and single - who are outwardly happy, but secretly questioning if their friends have it better. Andi and Bobby are happily married with two kids but at times long for the days they had less responsibility and more fun; Will is newly single and preaching the bachelor lifestyle, but still pining for his ex-wife; Jules and Lowell are high on their passionate new relationship; and Kate has a successful career but may take a swan dive into the L.A. River when she finds out her last remaining single friend, Jules, just got engaged. When it comes to relationships, these six friends are finding it a challenge to look at each other without wondering... who really has the better life?

Series details

• Title: Friends with Better Lives
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy, Romance
• Premiere date: 2014-03-31
• Final broadcast date listed: 2014-05-26
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CBS
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.6/10
• TVMaze ID: 3542

Cast and credited roles

• Brooklyn Decker — Jules Talley
• James Van Der Beek — Will Stokes
• Kevin Connolly — Bobby Lutz
• Majandra Delfino — Andi Cooper-Lutz
• Rick Donald — Lowell Peddit
• Zoe Lister-Jones — Kate McLean

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2014-03-31; final listed air date 2014-05-26; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Friends with Better Lives on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.