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Re-Watching Friends Has Soft-Launched My Midlife Crisis

Re-Watching Friends Has Soft-Launched My Midlife Crisis

It hasn't been my day, my week, my month, or even my year

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Jan 19, 2024
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This week we finally ran out of new things to watch on Netflix, so we did what we always do in this situation: we started re-watching Friends.

Now, I know it’s not really the done thing to still like Friends these days, because of all of the things that are retrospectively problematic about it, but as we worked our way through the first couple of seasons, it wasn’t the fat-shaming, or the ‘Chandler’s dad’ storyline, or even the really quite incredible late 90s hairstyles that jumped out at me.

No, it was Richard.

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