-mUsIcLoVeR- Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 It came to me at a right time. There's this magic in the first season that lured me in. Being lost in your twenties, not knowing what to do, trying to rely on friendships to keep you sane. Maybe that?
Wrecked Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 The way some of you make hating Friends a personality trait… You don’t need to be ‘enlightened’ about anything. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. Why does it bother you so much that other people like it?
vale9001 Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 (edited) at the time it was definitely something new... sit coms were all about families, thiss was about adults and it plays with the typical storyline of a tv drama (a love story between the characters with a 10 season arc etc..) but in a sit com. The mistery it's why is still so popular cause 80% of the jokes are unfunny now. Edited May 10, 2023 by vale9001
Littlejfrey Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 4 minutes ago, Wrecked said: The way some of you make hating Friends a personality trait… You don’t need to be ‘enlightened’ about anything. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. Why does it bother you so much that other people like it? This! And, to answer your question: Phoebe Buffay
Selegend Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 (edited) it's a comfort show where u can get attached to the characters and their personalities if u're older than 25 and don't have a super annoying "wanting to be different" personality. not a lot of shows have the power to make u get as attached to the characters as friends. its super well written and constructed. if u're younger than 25 then it makes sense finding it unfunny, just outdated jokes. Edited May 10, 2023 by Selegend
PoisonedIvy Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 Y’all seem to underestimate the importance of mediocrity.. MOST people in the world are mediocre. Not everyone is hella attractive, funny, and talented. So when something comes around that feels grounded in reality, the vocal critics like to be hateful and say that it’s basic when in reality it just has mass relatability. i don’t love friends but I stan Taylor and everyone calls her bland/basic/vanilla when really she’s just universally relatable and down to earth.
Keeandga Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 It’s one of the sitcom greats. I still enjoy it personally, I understand some of the criticism but it was a different time & only people to blame are the writing team. It’s nostalgic; it can be funny, you could believe they were genuinely friends also Lisa Kudrow.
Wrecked Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 1 minute ago, Littlejfrey said: This! And, to answer your question: Phoebe Buffay I mean, what other sitcom has a character as iconic as Phoebe Buffay? I can see why they’re mad.
MotoPapi Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 I never found a single episode funny. They used to play this show nonstop at the laundry place I used to go to when I lived in NYC and honestly it was just stuff white people would find funny I guess? so basic.
blackoutbritney Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 I watched it growing up, it’s a comfort show it doesn’t reallly need to be explained
LoveInStereo Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 It needs to be said in threads like this. The entertainment you consume ≠ who you are as a person. People go to TV for different things. To be brutal, alt ******* are more boring to interact with IRL because everything is snobby posturing. Friends fans aren’t pretentious.
ATRL Moderator Bloo Posted May 10, 2023 ATRL Moderator Posted May 10, 2023 Hating Friends is such a horrible personality trait. If you don’t like it, that’s fine. But obsessively hating it is silly. Friends is just a good comfort show for me. Anytime I feel down I can turn it on and immediately laugh at the characters and their scenarios. I think it does a great job of letting you grow into the friend group. You start to feel like an insider that knows the inside jokes so when a character says, “Did Monica approve of this?” about Chandler daring to clean the apartment on his own, you laugh because you know all too well how obsessive she is about cleaning because you’ve seen it. When they joke about Ross getting a divorce, you laugh at it because you’ve seen all of his divorces. You’re “in” on the inside jokes. I think any well-established friend group has very distinct inside jokes that make no sense to anyone else. For instance, personally speaking, my friends and I from college made custom Cards Against Humanity cards and I have to tell people they can discard them when I play with the same cards now because no one understands how any of them are remotely funny. Friends is one of the few sitcoms that rewards you for watching the show from start to finish. Why is this good? Well, the show assumes you grow attached to the characters and once you do, the show is fantastic. I totally understand if you tune into one episode and go, “Omg, this is lame.” But I’d argue that’s the incorrect way to consume Friends. It’s not as episodic as other sitcoms and has humor that is built on seasons worth of context. Finally, I think the show has a very romantic quality to it with how it portrays friendship. The way the characters are always together and hanging out reminds me of my college days in particular when all my friends and I lived in the dorms together for four years. We all ate dinner together at 5pm, had random board game nights, shared gossip, complained about dating, watched movies, and just had a similar lifestyle to the characters in Friends. We even always hung out in the campus Starbucks to where our other friends would visit Starbucks specifically to look for one of us. Watching Friends reminds me of that time period in my life and it’s nice to watch it from that vantage point. It was such a great time period in my life and I appreciate Friends more because of the similarity.
EmailMySwift Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 It's not great but it's the comfort and coziness people go back to.
truthteller Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 american mediocracy, just like mcdonalds and fried chicken
Brikenbur Posted May 10, 2023 Posted May 10, 2023 Whatever the appeal of Taylor Swift is stems from whatever the appeal of Friends is
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