TMC
09-14-2019, 05:55 AM
https://newrepublic.com/article/154840/mysteriously-enduring-appeal-friends
When Friends became available on Netflix in January 2015, a wave of think pieces declared that the NBC comedy was over since millennials were rejecting its outdated cultural politics. "Offended by Ross’s anguish over his gay ex-wife and Chandler’s transphobic comments about his father, such essayists predicted that Friends’ supremacy would soon be over," says Josephine Livingstone. "In a trend-bucking twist of TV fate, the opposite came true. Friends has bulldozed its way into the American canon, and is somehow more relevant than ever."
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The Friends Pop-up Experiences captures everything about the show except what made it great (https://slate.com/culture/2019/09/friends-tv-pop-up-experience-shop-new-york.html)
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How Ursula exemplifies "evil twin syndrome" (https://news.avclub.com/how-friends-ursula-exemplifies-evil-twin-syndrome-1837986435)
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When Friends became available on Netflix in January 2015, a wave of think pieces declared that the NBC comedy was over since millennials were rejecting its outdated cultural politics. "Offended by Ross’s anguish over his gay ex-wife and Chandler’s transphobic comments about his father, such essayists predicted that Friends’ supremacy would soon be over," says Josephine Livingstone. "In a trend-bucking twist of TV fate, the opposite came true. Friends has bulldozed its way into the American canon, and is somehow more relevant than ever."
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Friends creators blame an anonymous NBC executive for Monica's slut-shaming in the pilot episode (https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/friends-no-reboot-reunion-marta-kauffman-tribeca-tv-festival-1203335878/)
The Friends Pop-up Experiences captures everything about the show except what made it great (https://slate.com/culture/2019/09/friends-tv-pop-up-experience-shop-new-york.html)
Friends bosses regret two storylines: The ones involving Charlie Sheen and David Arquette (https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/friends-showrunners-on-the-plots-they-regret-most.html)
How Ursula exemplifies "evil twin syndrome" (https://news.avclub.com/how-friends-ursula-exemplifies-evil-twin-syndrome-1837986435)
Ranking the 25 best Friends episodes (https://ew.com/tv/2019/09/12/friends-the-25-best-episodes/)
The pilot almost introduced Monica in a different way (http://www.mtv.com/news/3138836/friends-monica-pilot-plot/)
Friends vets Bonnie Somerville and Alexandra Holden speak out on all the Friends exes who were wronged (https://www.instagram.com/tv/B2ShhKZnYM4/)
David Schwimmer reportedly hid his face and sat in the audience for a Friends anniversary panel (https://pagesix.com/2019/09/13/david-schwimmer-goes-incognito-at-friends-anniversary-panel/)