Thanks to Chandler's endless, smug put-downs, the script is often accused of being razor sharp. If it's a razor, then it's a plastic disposable one - the cheap kind you cut yourself with. Friends is set in New York's West Village and the show makes this extraordinarily capricious city look like Sunday in Geelong. It's surprising that New York hasn't sued for defamation. If Seinfeld was a show about nothing, then Friends is a show about bugger-all.
Friends is ultimately a testament to arrested development.
It presents us with a group of men and women in their 30s who still think they are 17. They may reside in one of the brashest and most complex of Western democracies, but their only interest is in themselves. Once every possible coupling has been completed, there will truly be nothing more for the fans to care about. The Age Company Ltd 2001. Any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited.