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May 6, 2004
Not my Friends
To the surprise of exactly no one, Friends is ending tonight. I can't say I ever watched with any regularity, but I will tonight. I never identified with the stick-thin-must-have-a-man/woman-crapfest that it was. I can't remember ever laughing along, or even nodding along with it. It was ok, for what it was: a sitcom.
I don't begrudge people their favoured TV shows, but for one writer to say : [italics mine]
"Friends isn't actual reality, has taken pains to avoid anything remotely controversial -- no real talk about politics or religion -- and has had a notable paucity of racial diversity. It's not a complete picture of anything in the real world, and it's not supposed to be.
But it has successfully captured a slice of life. And if, decades from now, people look back on this show -- among other things, of course -- to get some insight into the pop culture zeitgeist of 1994-2004, that's fine by me."
It's fine by you that future generations will judge ours by a "paucity of racial diversity?"
Really? Or that it was too "impolite" to discuss politics or religion? What slice of life is that? Certainly not life from 1994-2004. Maybe 1894-1904.
Posted by at May 6, 2004 9:45 AM
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Thank god you prefaced that with "It was ok, for what it was: a sitcom." After all, does *everything* have to be of some significance? If so, where does that leave Mr. Ed?
Posted by: Emily at May 6, 2004 9:56 AM
No black folk on the show and they live in NEW YORK!!!
Posted by: Bimbo Bread at May 6, 2004 10:08 AM