According to Netflix, every season of the FRIENDS has trended in the top 10 most watched show for a minimum of a week in at least 4 countries. So, take a stroll down memory lane with some FRIENDS TV show quotes and review the sitcom with me.

There is something therapeutic about enjoying dinner in bed after a long day with an episode of the TV show FRIENDS playing in the background. The show has been around for 29 years now. Like a recurring trope it has managed to fill the gaps between binge watching new shows. Perhaps it is the familiarity which keeps me coming back to it, like a warm hug, or perhaps it’s the classic comedic timing of the characters that keeps attracting me. But after being an avid watcher for more than six years, I can’t help but wonder why I keep coming back to this one show in particular?

This, right here, is an attempt to answer this question.

FRIENDS is more than a Romcom

Yes, I agree there is a lot of romance and comedy but hear me out. FRIENDS is much more than a boy meets sister’s best friend and then ten years later asks her out leading to an on-again-off-again relationship for the next ten years. It’s not the story of Ross and Rachel or even Monica and Chandler. In its barest form, it is the story of six friends trying to figure out life together. It’s the story of people growing out of their insecurities, leaving behind their childhood traumas, stepping out of their comfort zones and turning over a new chapter in their life.

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FRIENDS-The Ultimate Relationship Guide

The popularity of the show and what has gained the show a lot of young fans over the decades is the way in which the show portrays relationship problems. Highlighting relationships in such a major way helps the show on two levels. Firstly, on a comic and lighthearted level, FRIENDS, the TV show has become a good substitute for the ’relationship talk’ with your friends. When your friends don’t have the answers, it’s time to turn to Monica. Secondly, on a more cinematic and structural level, the romantic journey of characters act as a gateway to their past which allows a way to leave behind the overused unidimensional characterization of romantic characters in romcoms in a relaxed and breezy way.

Perfectly Imperfect Characters

Probably the biggest contributor to the success of the show over all these years is the use of characters who are anything but perfect. Rachel is bratty, Monica is obsessive, Pheobe is flaky, Ross is timid, Chandler is haunted by his parents’ broken marriage and Joey, well, he isn‘t the sharpest of the lot. With a variety of flaws it is hard to not see your own reflection in one of them and sometimes all of them. The show does a brilliant job in humanising and accepting the eccentricities that most of us possess.

FRIENDS captures the Trials of Adulting

The confusion wrapped with the age of 20s is vivdly captured by the show. How the age is different and difficult for everyone is considered right from the first episode. While Ross and Rachel have marriage issues, Monica and Joey are running around for their careers, and Chandler and Pheobe struggle to come to terms with their uprooted childhoods. Over the seasons they learn to cope with their issues only to find new problems to tackle, much like in real life. In doing so, the show sets a very real reflection of life. Even the happy endings are bittersweet and not perfect.

FRIENDS has guided generations of youngsters with its unique and heart warming story. For it’s biggest fans, it has shaped the way in which they perceive and even respond to social scenarios in their everyday lives. I guess that’s why it keeps finding a back way in our lives.

I hope you enjoyed this trip down memory lane with this blog on FRIENDS TV show quotes and review. If you did, let me know in the comments below!

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