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How Friends may have influenced a whole generation
Watching the show again gave me a whole new perspective on my own generation’s behavior
For the past several months, I’ve been deeply entrenched in the TV series Friends. Feeling a sense of nostalgia about the “good ol’ days” before technology ruled our lives, I began with season one, following the experiences of six friends who are very close to one another — both literally and figuratively, living in New York City in the mid-to-late nineties.
When the show first aired in September of 1994, I was nine years old and not yet in America. It wasn’t until I was in high school in the early 2000s that I began watching Friends on a regular basis. Flash forward to the present (2019), and I’m reminded of Friends and how incredibly complex their relationships were and yet how simple the times were back then. Thus, the desire to re-watch Friends came and I found myself on the couch several nights a week, feeling the tension, the laughter, the hope, the struggles, the love and everything in between that is the culmination of what Friends is all about.
As I watch the show from season one up until now — season 8 — I can’t help but think about how much this show has influenced my generation — the millennials. Even though the characters in the show were in their…
