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The One Where the ‘Friends’ Reunion Is a Disaster

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We could fill 18 pages—front and back—with the ways the boring, overly earnest “Friends” reunion is a letdown. And this is coming from a “Friends” superfan!

It’s apparently cool to not like Friends. Maybe that’s always been true.

It has seemed like it since the show launched in 1994 and became a television juggernaut that ran for 10 seasons, made six people ungodly amounts of money, introduced any number of referential lines of dialogue into the mainstream...

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