What The ‘Friends’ Reunion Says About America’s Cultural Evolution – The Federalist

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Federalist contributors Libby Emmons and Helen Raleigh join Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to break down the Friends reunion and how it reflects a shift in American culture and entertainment.

It was at first like watching someone elses high school reunion, and that was really uncomfortable and weird and it started off, were just like, I dont know, but as they moved into it and just fell into a natural rapport, that was the interesting part for me, Emmons explained.

Thats what I liked about it, Jashinsky said. Theres a documentary value, I think, to reuniting six people on camera and in the space like theyre literally in the physical space thats so familiar in our pop-cultural imagination.

Entertainment and TV shows are almost entirely different mediums now than when Friends first aired.

America has this huge power to create something funand long-lastingand now were losing that culture of powerand thats thats really sad becausethe wokeness takes the fun out of our entertainment, Raleigh said.

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What The 'Friends' Reunion Says About America's Cultural Evolution - The Federalist