“Friends” fans are spending $45 to see recreated sets from the sitcom at Metro Center. Have we lost the plot?
That fits the moment. Krystine I. Batcho, a psychology professor at Le Moyne College who studies nostalgia, said people have been “wounded” in recent years, enduring lockdowns and isolation and spending too much time in virtual realities. There’s a reason they might gravitate to a show called “Friends.”“They’re unhappy with or dissatisfied with the present,” Batcho suggested. “They are seeking to remedy that — to sort of fix it by finding something better than we have now.
Superfly X, the New York-based company behind the Friends Experience, will bring that treatment to"The Office” in D.C. this summer, for those who wish to visit a re-creation of the Los Angeles set of a fictional Scranton, Pa., paper company. Over the course of all those rewatches, the humor of “Friends” has aged, and not all well. Kelsey Miller, who lives in the real New York and wrote the book “I’ll Be There for You: The One about ‘Friends,’” chafes at its homophobia, body-shaming and lack of diversity.
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