Recasting Friends In 2022
NBC's Friends is a TV show that stands the test of time, but who would be in the cast if it was made in 2022?Friends first premiered in 1994 on NBC, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman to be a series that represented the Gen-X young adults of the 1990s. It centered around six friends in New York City who are trying to navigate their love lives, careers, and lives, often leading to hilarious situations, in true sitcom fashion. Friends sprang to popularity shortly after its release and has since become one of the most popular TV shows of all time.
Friends is a beloved TV show to the point where changing anything about it could be seen as blasphemous. After all, it isn't easy to imagine another pair of actors capturing the on-again, off-again romance between Ross Geller and Rachel Green as well as Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer did for over a decade. However, the world has changed drastically since Friends ended after its 10th season in 2004, with the lives of young adults in America looking nothing like the lives that those six friends lived nearly 30 years ago.
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As a result, the landscape on television is much more diverse today, and the representation of different types of people on screen is important. Though diversity has always existed globally, especially in major cities like New York, it wasn’t as reflected on-screen in the 90s. TV shows made in recent years tend to have diverse core casts and an entire slate of diverse supporting characters to boot. Friends certainly tried to improve its diversity, especially in later seasons, by introducing characters like Aisha Tyler’s Dr. Charlie Wheeler. However, a hypothetical 2022 recast
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