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Thirty years ago, in September 1994, the fugitive bride Rachel Green broke into a central benefit in a blind panic in search of refuge and the lost friend who would provide it. Join the lost friend and her gang on the couch that was always mysteriously available for them in a full coffee, Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Ross, Chandler and Joey threw a spell in the form of Friends That would last ten seasons and extend on what begins to be seen as the end of the times.
Ditzy Rachel, Neurotic Mónica, Flaky Phoebe, Nerdy Ross, Enchanted Joey and Funnyman Chandler: Could the combination be More powerful? What is this situation comedy that distinguishes it from the other forgotten names of the nineties? When looking for our nostalgic humor solution, it would be difficult to find a large mass of millennials who meet fever Everyone loves Raymond or go to He King of the Queens. So what was it about? Friends Did that turn it, indeed, immortal?
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Perhaps it was their inexplicably surplus appearance of them the women who made the trick. Or maybe it was how the lives of the central characters remained firmly intertwined, giving us not only a solid set of friendships but also an aspiring love story. Chandler and Monica, or Mondler, as they are known with love, grew together as a couple and prevailed through the challenges of infertility, the purchase of properties and the ex nasal girlfriend. They proved that an adult relationship can survive not only the great weapons, but also to the petty fights without any of the parts that need to take a break. Although now that the issue of breaks in the face of relationships has inevitably emerged, let me get my unpopular opinion from the road: yes, Ross was right, they were at a break, and yes, Rachel stays with grudge as if it were a super glue.
But Friends It was much more than lessons in love and friendship. It is possible that a situation comedy never strives to establish iconic teaching moments, but Friends He cemented his place in the history of television giving us an abundance of them. To start, this appreciated show taught us that when taking a sofa on the stairs, we must always hire engines. If we do not hire engines, we will be condemned to “pivot” in the corners with assistants who seem to know the definition of the pivot dictionary. He taught us that when taking a break, it is always better to prepare a legal document that describes the terms and conditions of said rest.
He also taught us that the route to fatherhood does not always have to be what you expect. Phoebe takes a step forward to be a substitute mother for her brother’s children and shows us how heartbreak that can be to give to those babies. Chandler and Mónica find love in their hearts to become adoptive twin parents after an exhausting infertility trip. Even Ross and Rachel find a way to mention Emma without complying with social norms, although here I fear that there must be an element of dark magic involved. As someone who has spent many years orbiting around babies and young children, the most unrealistic television moment I have witnessed was when Rachel announced: “I am putting Emma for a nap” and emerged without babies five seconds later. No one in the history of the raising of children has achieved this. But hey, ho. We are not going to comedies for realism!
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Not everyone shares my pink and indulgent vision of this program on six attractive people whose works allow them to spend all day in a cafeteria. When Netflix jogged Friends In 2020 to opillate the pain of a global pandemic, it did not spend much time before the vultures descended to Ross Geller for his burning desire for Rachel to disembark from a plane to Paris.
“Ross is so problematic,” says a fan with Reddit disgust. “Rachel shouldn’t have come down from the plane.”
“Problematic” is the label of choice for fictional characters that make questionable decisions, and few have been pushed under a harder microscope than Ross. Modern spectators find him jealous, manipulator, controller, immature and a father absent to his firstborn, Ben, and not particularly dedicated to his second born, Emma, either.
But Friends It was not the first situation comedy with problematic people. Seinfeld did it a few years before Friendswith four central characters that made some very questionable decisions. No one in Seinfeld It has ever been crucified as Ross, although perhaps it is because in SeinfeldThe joke is in the characters: we, the public, we all knew they are horrible people, and our work is to laugh at them. Never with them. In SeinfeldAmong the many crimes that are explored in depth, George inadvertently kills his fiancee, Elaine is openly disgusted by her friend’s baby, Kramer repeatedly ruins the business of a litigation lawyer, and Jerry ruins the immigration process for the Paquistai man that he had sworn that he had sworn that he had sworn that he had sworn that he had sworn that he had sworn to help. In SeinfeldHowever, everyone obtains their deserved in an end of the series that puts the most glorious punishment for their crimes in the last nine seasons. If you want a heavy show in laughter and without heart, see Seinfeld immediately.
In FriendsA show that focuses on both laughs and heart, Ross does not receive such revenge. As a main character, we are invited to empathize with him, and not laugh at him for too long, which is something that Nitpicky spectators find difficult to forgive. However, other spectators are happy to not only concentrate on poor Ross, but also include the rest of the cast in their conviction. Sin? Being too white, too rich (how could Monica pay that apartment on your own?) Too central in New York, and too successful (how did Chandler get an office with that opinion in her twenty years?). In addition, it is impossible for six people to always find an empty sofa in a coffee. How do they do it? These are the hot questions that Reddit viewers want to answer, but not me. I am not going to comedies to get answers. I go to situation comedies for the same reason why I avoid horror movies and thrillers that involve bloodshed: I want to entertain myself. I want to get away feeling happy. Friends He cannot pass the Wokeness Tornaspias test of the 21st century, but those of us who devour it in the past do not care. We came for the laughter. We stay for the heart. And we are not going anywhere.
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