View Full Version : Millennial viewers slam "Friends" as problematic


TMC
01-18-2018, 05:47 AM
https://www.google.com/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5258829/amp/Millennial-viewers-slam-Friends-problematic-plots.html

Friends is one of the most popular sitcoms of all time and ran for over 10 years before its finale in 2004, but since the show arrived on Netflix UK at the end of 2017, having been available in the US for many months, it has attracted a brand new - and much more sensitive - audience.

Millennial viewers who were too young to see the show when it first aired have been calling the show out on Twitter for what they deem to be some very problematic plot points.

The treatment of LGBT characters left some feeling 'uncomfortable', from the way Chandler was paranoid about being seen as a gay man, to his cruel jokes about his cross-dressing father.

The sitcom has also been slammed for its lack of diversity as it has few non-white characters despite being set in the multi-cultural melting pot of New York.

Below Femail reveals the Friends storylines that have irked a generation of politically correct millennials...

PracTz
01-18-2018, 12:19 PM
I'm surprised that no millenials in that article slam the show for the one thing that makes it totally unwatchable for me: the main characters have to be among the most negligent parents in TV history who became so annoyingly unwatchable the last few years that I never want to see another second of it in rerun!