Since its debut in Australia in 1996, imitations of "Friends" have been strewn all along the Australian T.V schedule. It has remained the country's highest ranked T.V show ever since then. This proves the creators MUST be doing something right.
The half hour sitcom provides a hilarious insight into the lives of six now thirty somethings living in well furnished apartments with terrible jobs and equally worse love lives. Its excellence away from the standard pack of comedies is that it doesn't need to try very hard to be funny. Instead of trying to create a fantasy world, the creators wrote exactly about what they knew when they were in their twenties.
All the characters, funny, smart and sexy, are loveable people that we want to know, who we have come to know over the years. Chandler, Joey, Ross, Monica, Phoebe and Rachel have in a sense, become a part of every day life. In its somewhat miraculous conception, the writers have averted the deadliness of favouratism within the ensemble.
In embarrassing ways, the situations these people continually find themselves trapped within the throes of imagination, can be related to on some other level. This remains one of the many reasons "Friends" has deserved success.
As the premiere of the sixth season in Australia dawns, one can only wonder how much longer the freshness and creativity of the sitcom can be sustained. Some of the hilarity in the fifth season has diminished and it will be far better if the sitcom is ended on a high note.
With as much ability and comfort a T.V set can provide, "Friends" is a welcoming, sympathetically moving half hour into another world.
The half hour sitcom provides a hilarious insight into the lives of six now thirty somethings living in well furnished apartments with terrible jobs and equally worse love lives. Its excellence away from the standard pack of comedies is that it doesn't need to try very hard to be funny. Instead of trying to create a fantasy world, the creators wrote exactly about what they knew when they were in their twenties.
All the characters, funny, smart and sexy, are loveable people that we want to know, who we have come to know over the years. Chandler, Joey, Ross, Monica, Phoebe and Rachel have in a sense, become a part of every day life. In its somewhat miraculous conception, the writers have averted the deadliness of favouratism within the ensemble.
In embarrassing ways, the situations these people continually find themselves trapped within the throes of imagination, can be related to on some other level. This remains one of the many reasons "Friends" has deserved success.
As the premiere of the sixth season in Australia dawns, one can only wonder how much longer the freshness and creativity of the sitcom can be sustained. Some of the hilarity in the fifth season has diminished and it will be far better if the sitcom is ended on a high note.
With as much ability and comfort a T.V set can provide, "Friends" is a welcoming, sympathetically moving half hour into another world.