Despite being off the air for 13 years, people are still a little crazy about Friends.
Just last week there was a (now deleted) post on Facebook by a guy called David Scwimer (the misspelling should have been a dead give away that it was fake) that claimed that show would be returning this fall for a one-off mini-season event, and the internet promptly lost its mind.
In the intervening years, it has become more and more apparent that Friends is deeply of its time, as hindsight think-pieces pick the show apart for being
racist,
sexist and
homophobic.
That being said, a modern-day version of Friends would still be watched by just about everybody, especially in the light of the popularity of the return of the
X-Files, as well as the upcoming returns of
Will & Grace and
Roseanne.
In a
podcast interview with Arianna Huffington, Jennifer Aniston is also very aware that the times are changing, and a realistic portrayal of six friends hanging around a coffee shop all day would be very, very different:
"[It] isn’t pretty. Now you have a computer, a television, and a phone. There's no room. We were jokingly saying that if Friends was created today, you would have a coffee shop full of people that were just staring into iPhones. There would be no actual episodes or conversations."
Plus, everyone would be in their 40s, most of them with kids, so would they even have time for daily coffee catch-ups in Central Perk, which would most likely be a Starbucks by now?
We doubt it, but that's for the show's writers to figure out.
