Twenty years ago, at the end of the 2003-04 TV season, audiences said goodbye to our dear “Friends.”
Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey left us to go on with their lives outside of the confines of a couple of apartments and a coffee shop. Audiences were left without the comfort of tuning in each Thursday to see them talk endlessly about the past and present, if not always the future.
Every one of the characters on David Crane and Marta Kauffman’s NBC sitcom knew, at least eventually, everything about the others’ lives. Everyone lived together, vacationed together and frequently dated each other. They’d spend hours on an overstuffed orange couch sipping lattes and chatting like they had nowhere else to be. It was how the audience (both the other characters and the real ones watching at home) reacted to those stories that made them feel like a chosen family.
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