Editors’ note: One major spoiler ahead, so proceed with caution if you want to remain completely unspoiled.
The best parts of Friends: The Reunion , streaming …
Editors’ note: One major spoiler ahead, so proceed with caution if you want to remain completely unspoiled. The best parts of Friends: The Reunion, streaming now on HBO Max, involve just the six main cast members. James Corden deftly handles host duties; celebrities including BTS, Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga show up; the show’s creators share behind-the-scenes tidbits — and that’s all good. But the moments you’ll likely remember most are when Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer just sit around on the old of the show set chatting, as if no one else in the world exists. It’s said over and over again in the reunion: The iconic NBC sitcom is about that time in life when your friends are your family. Is it any wonder, then, that there’s such a fondness for the show, especially among those who grew up with it and later moved on to partners and perhaps children, mortgages and high-pressure jobs? Who wouldn’t want, even for a moment, to return to a time of fewer responsibilities and more impromptu laughs? There’s a segment in the reunion where the actors (except Schwimmer, who can’t remember it) recall a scene in which they decide to just throw a ball back and forth for as long as they can. Even if you never played that exact game, something in that lets viewers reminisce about a time in their life when they might have spent hours doing something insignificant and yet incredibly satisfying, with their best buddies by their side. Maybe we didn’t have the Friends’ looks, or their pricey New York apartments. Maybe we didn’t have a pet monkey. But there’s a universal element in the show that made it the huge hit it was. Here are six moments from Friends: The Reunion that will make you remember the time when your own friends were there for you. (Note: There’s also a moment when Aniston and Schwimmer reveal they’d had real feelings for each other, but while it’s generating lots of buzz, it didn’t quite make the cut as one of my favorite moments.
