small h Posted October 29, 2023 Share Posted October 29, 2023 At 54, of apparent drowning. https://www.tmz.com/2023/10/28/friends-star-matthew-perry-dead-dies-drowning/ First of the Friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloviatrix Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 My kid loves watching Friends. It's kind of crazy. @Anthony Bonner - do yours watch it at all? I know they're around the same age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted November 1, 2023 Author Share Posted November 1, 2023 The show has, improbably, never stopped being popular. Even with all the bitching about its persistent whiteness and occasional transphobia and unrealistic portrayal of life in Manhattan. (Did you know that it is incumbent upon sitcoms to display a relentless gritty naturalism? Well, now you do.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bonner Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 1 hour ago, bloviatrix said: My kid loves watching Friends. It's kind of crazy. @Anthony Bonner - do yours watch it at all? I know they're around the same age. not at all. but my son barely watches TV and my daughter's taste in TV makes Friends look like prestige drama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 My daughter watched all of Friends on demand, maybe several times. She would have been about 3 years old when it stopped airing on the network. I watched five minutes here and there because there were pretty women. I vaguely know what it was about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted November 2, 2023 Author Share Posted November 2, 2023 13 minutes ago, Wilfrid said: I vaguely know what it was about. It's about a group of friends, as the title implies. It's also a very elegantly-structured sitcom, an ideal example of the genre. And as noted, it holds up, despite its shortcomings, and despite the fact that many of the issues it addressed were very much of their time. It also bears repeated watching because the acting is unusually strong for an "unserious" television show. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behemoth_Munich Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 My kids aren’t interested but their babysitters have quoted it back to me. I watched it occasionally as some of my roommates were fans but it wasn’t really my humor. That said I can impress the young‘uns as I have attended a live screening (VIP no less.) A good friend was friends with one of the writers… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 On 11/1/2023 at 11:01 PM, small h said: It's about a group of friends, as the title implies. It's also a very elegantly-structured sitcom, an ideal example of the genre. And as noted, it holds up, despite its shortcomings, and despite the fact that many of the issues it addressed were very much of their time. It also bears repeated watching because the acting is unusually strong for an "unserious" television show. That confirms my vague knowledge of what it was about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
small h Posted November 3, 2023 Author Share Posted November 3, 2023 Everybody wins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywood10 Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Wilfrid said: That confirms my vague knowledge of what it was about. Allee Willis and cohorts made a lot of money for cranking out the theme song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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