What The Final Days On The Set Of Friends Were Like What The Final Days On The Set Of Friends Were Like NBC By Neeraj Chand/May 13, 2021 4:16 pm EDT/Updated: May 13, 2021 4:26 pm EDT The tenth and final season of "Friends" may have ended in 2004, but the massively popular sitcom never lost its grip on people's imagination. The show continues to air on television and streaming sites all over the world, allowing new generations of fans to discover and identify with the world of "Friends." As with any series that reaches such stratospheric realms of success, the final season of "Friends" had a great many expectations riding on it. Long-standing plotlines had to be resolved, characters arcs had to come to a satisfying conclusion, and new ideas had to be introduced that could be wrapped up within the season.