This TV show started in 1994 and lasted for 8 years. 10 seasons of straight greatness and it sadly is being removed from the platform used most to watch it: Netflix. This show has been around for 25 years and it has wowed many generations. Teenagers today, just like me are obsessed with the show and amazed at how it can still make us all laugh.
It is astonishing how a show my parents watched is a show I now watch and one that we can enjoy together. The humor is perfect as it isn’t too modern or too old for me to understand. With this show being on reruns for 15 years it has made over $1 million dollars a year since it aired. And each cast member makes around $20 million dollars a year just from reruns.
My favorite character, Rachel Green, is portrayed by Jenifer Aniston. This show really blasted off her career and she is by far the most successful cast member in the show. She has been in countless movies and TV shows and is even launching a new series “The Morning Show,” which she stars in.
The show takes place in Manhattan, New York but is actually filmed in Warner Bros Studios in Los Angeles California. In New York, there is a Coffee Shop called Central Perk that is dedicated to friends but unfortunately does not look like the set on the inside. The only true set is still set up for tour at Warner Bros in Los Angeles.
The show had great reviews and became very popular while it was airing. This caused the ratings and amount of views to shoot high, making the actors the highest-paid actors during that time. It has been fun to see some of the Characters reunite in their later years and see what they look like today. Although they are much older, most still get recognized on the streets for their role in friends and are often called by their characters’ names.
To me, the most interesting part about the show is that you can watch the shows in order and they have a sequence to them but that isn’t the main focus. It’s fun to watch them in order but you will never be confused if you pop in and watch a random one. This isn’t very popular in showbiz today unless it is a children’s show. I like connecting the pieces and its soo good I’ve watched the whole series 3 times.
Above all, it is said that this show is leaving Netflix. This means that people will have to wait for reruns or find it on a different platform. In fact, the show was supposed to be taken off in 2019 but due to outrage and persuasion from fans, Netflix agreed to keep it on for the entire next year. This doesn’t seem to be the case for this upcoming year, but who knows?
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