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   Why is friends so popular?

   • Beneath the professional craft and production polish of Friends, it is the concept of friendship, underscored with by the viewer’s sense of aspiration, which ultimately explains the series’ success then and now. One of the functions of popular culture is to provide a better imaginary world than the one we actually inhabit.

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   How popular is friends?

   • Yet Friends' popularity seems to be on the rise. Between its various syndicated airings, the show still draws a weekly audience of 16 million in the U.S., a big enough viewership to make it a viable hit on current network TV (and that's not even including streaming).

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   Why do people like friends so much?

   • They are good looking and well dressed, and the series centres on their ample leisure and social time. Unlike reality, arguments are always overcome and – most importantly of all – friendship always triumphs. The first and last scene of Friends. What a contrast this vision provides to the actual lives of so many people today.

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   What makes friends a good show?

   • The first important thing is that Friends was not so much a situation comedy as a character comedy. That meant it did not need a remarkable premise or dramatic incidents to drive the show. It was an ensemble piece in which we gradually got to know the characters and the friends became our friends.

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   What makes 'friends' so special?

   • Where “Friends” stands out is its ability to make viewers care about those characters. It achieved this partly by weaving them together romantically. The decade-long “will-they-won’t-they” intrigue between Ross and Rachel at times turned the comedy into a soap opera.

   Why “Friends” is still the world’s favourite sitcom, 25 years on

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   How many people watch friends a week?

   • Between its various syndicated airings, the show still draws a weekly audience of 16 million in the U.S., a big enough viewership to make it a viable hit on current network TV (and that's not even including streaming). In the U.K., ratings for Friends repeats are growing, up more than 10 percent in 2015 from the previous year.

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   Sep 20, 2024 · The answer is key to the show’s success – and why it remains so popular today. Back in 1994, the initial premise of Friends seemed to lack promise. The plot revolved round six not especially...

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   Sep 24, 2024 · So why the big change? How did my attitude evolve from indifference in the nineties to excitedly pulling off the interstate in the noughties? The answer is key to the show’s success – and why it remains so popular today. Back in 1994, the initial premise of Friends seemed to lack promise.

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   Sep 23, 2024 · The answer is key to the show’s success – and why it remains so popular today. Back in 1994, the initial premise of Friends seemed to lack promise. The plot revolved round six not...

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   Apr 24, 2016 · Why Friends is still so popular. What explains millennials' obsession with a 1990s show about 20-somethings who hang out in a coffee shop? It's nostalgia for a simpler time — before social...

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8. www.nytimes.com › television › friends-tv-show‘Friends’ Is Turning 25. Here’s Why We Can’t Stop Watching it.

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   Sep 5, 2019 · “Friends” made most of its social bets on gender differences, the way men get away with being chauvinists and lust buckets and layabouts, and the women have to pick up the slack.

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9. www.economist.com › prospero › 2019/09/20Why “Friends” is still the world’s favourite sitcom, 25 years on

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   Sep 20, 2019 · A survey this year of British children aged nine to 16 found that “Friends” was their favourite series, even though most of them were born after the final episode aired.

10. www.msn.com › en-us › tvExploring why Friends is still popular and going strong even ...

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    The iconic sitcom Friends aired its pilot episode on September 22, 1994, and has since grown into a cultural phenomenon that is relevant even today.