How the Hell is This Show Still So Relevant 20 Years Later?
By: Jeff McDonough
Monday was the 236th day of the year, as
August 24 always is on non-leap years. The significance of this date — beyond
being Cal Ripken’s 55th birthday — is that if you started watching Friends on a strict episode-a-day
regimen when Netflix released all 236 episodes
after the ball dropped this New Year’s, you’d be all
finished! In reality, nobody binge-watches TV this way, with that level of
self-control. You either end up getting distracted by something else and
flaking on your show, or you power through it in embarrassingly quick fashion
with only Doritos crumbs in your bed and a laptop burn on your tummy to show
for it.
Regardless, there has been adequate time for anyone interested in doing so to run through the entire series, whether for the first time or the 51st time. Why does this deal even matter? The episodes have been in reruns nonstop, since even before the show ended, on TBS and Nick at Nite and many local broadcast affiliates. Well, the answer to this question is really a sign of how things are in 2015 in general: we want our content when we want it however we want it.
Regardless, there has been adequate time for anyone interested in doing so to run through the entire series, whether for the first time or the 51st time. Why does this deal even matter? The episodes have been in reruns nonstop, since even before the show ended, on TBS and Nick at Nite and many local broadcast affiliates. Well, the answer to this question is really a sign of how things are in 2015 in general: we want our content when we want it however we want it.
