Friends is standing out as truly newsworthy as watchers glance back at the show and huge numbers of its dated perspectives.
The arrangement, which has for quite some time been praised has now gotten subject to analysis since its spilling on HBO Max for indicating an absence of decent variety, as indicated by E!News.
The analysis was there during its unique run and proceeds as more watchers find or re-watch the show. At the 2020 ATX TV Festival which occurred for all intents and purposes, Friends co-maker Marta Kauffman talked about the issue.
Set in New York, the show followed six white companions and highlighted predominately white visitor stars except for sweetheart characters played by Lauren Tom and Aisha Tyler.
“I wish I knew then what I know today,” Kauffman said during the festival. She further teared up and apologized, adding that she would have made different decisions if she were to remake the show.
“We’ve always encouraged people of diversity in our company, but I didn’t do enough. Now all I can think about is what can I do? What can I do differently? How can I run my show in a new way? That’s something I wish I knew when I started show-running,” Kauffman said, reported Deadline.
She wished she knew it “as far as possible up through a year ago” too.
“The truth is also that show was groundbreaking in its time for the way in which it handled so casually sex, protected sex, gay marriage and relationships. The pilot of the show was my character’s wife left him for a woman and there was a gay wedding, of my ex and her wife, that I attended,” actor David Schwimmer said, according to The Guardian.
“I feel that a lot of the problem today in so many areas is that so little is taken in context. You have to look at it from the point of view of what the show was trying to do at the time,” he continued. “I’m the first person to say that maybe something was inappropriate or insensitive, but I feel like my barometer was pretty good at that time. I was already really attuned to social issues and issues of equality.”
Schwimmer’s Ross dated the characters played by Tom and Tyler.
Lisa Kudrow, Phoebe on Friends, said the show would be “completely different” if it was currently on in 2020.
