The Last Episode of “Friends”
The Arts section of the newspaper ran a feature this past week on the “next ‘Friends.’” I think that neatly sums up the world of television and entertainment. Who will miss “Friends” in five, ten years? It’s been replaced. It was created as disposable entertainment, and it’s filled that role marvelously – lasting a bit longer than expected, perhaps, but ultimately disappearing from the screen. It now exists only in reruns and DVDs. Does it, has it ever existed elsewhere? If television was ever other than an alien landscape, I haven’t seen it.