Patrick Feminis
05/27/2021 2:21 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 05/27/2021 2:28 PM
Signs of the post-pandemic are already being seen in New York.
This Thursday, May 27, tourists did not abound to take photos in front of the fictional apartment of the Friends series, on the corner of Grove Street and Bedford Street, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood.
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Where fans of the sitcom were
and global cultural icon since the 90s until today, over 25 years later?
In front of their screens, in the United States and in Europe, to see the special
Friends: The Reunion
on the online platform
HBO Max
.
The show of the reunion of the six friends
expands the streaming war with humor
, calculated pop nostalgia and an accurate connection to today's audiences.
Will there
be great friends in the growing contest
between Netflix, Disney +, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV + and other streaming platforms, which HBO Max had joined on May 27, 2020, in the United States and Europe?
Just a year later
Friends: The Reunion
premiered there
,
this delayed return recorded in April
(due to the pandemic) of the six stars to the original locations and others recreated from the great American comedy of the '90s, to be celebrated and embraced without risk. sanitary, evoking secrets and unforgettable tips of its fictional chemistry and at the same time so real.
When will it arrive in Argentina
Hug between Matt LeBlanc (Joey) and Courteney Cox (Monica), with the looks of David Schwimmer (Ross) and Jennifer Aniston (Rachel).
Photo Terence Patrick / HBO Max via AP)
Friends: The Reunion
can be seen officially in Argentina and the rest of Latin America only
as of June 29, when the HBO Max platform is launched
(from the giant WarnerMedia, with infinite products and consumer offers, including those from DC Comics. , Warner Bros and even Cartoon Network).
There is still a month to go, but
in the global virtual world the official borders do not stop the longing
renewed online for the six friends from New York.
How to talk about spoilers when everything that happened in the almost two hours in
Friends: The Reunion is
already read and discussed there - and here - just a click away, on social networks?
This May 27, early on, the comments about
Friends: The Reunion
were one of the focuses of Twitter.
The #FriendsReunion trend announced: "17 years after the last episode, the cast of Friends meet again."
And under the emoji with two red star eyes read the sincere descent: “
The day has come!
Jennifer Aniston (Rachel), Courteney Cox (Monica), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe), Matt LeBlanc (Joey), Matthew Perry (Chandler) and David Schwimmer (Ross) come together to remember the most special moments they lived during the recording of a of the most successful series on television (…) See here everything about this reunion through Tweets ”.
What happened at the meeting
The social and fraternal milestone had emerged in 1994, when the actors were over twenty years old, and
ended on May 6, 2004
, with them finally mature.
And, with millions in his favor without limits of generations, he briefly returned in this era of multiscreen to enhance television anxiety between the current past and the last voracious premiere by streaming.
What will
Friends: The Reunion
leave
for posterity?
How many new products from the sitcom will circulate again in online consumer stores, or on the streets of New York and the world, when it is possible to sing “I'll Be There For You”, the leitmotiv song of
The Rembrandts
?
David Schwimmer (Ross), in one of the scenes of the Friends meeting.
FotoTerence Patrick / HBO Max via AP
It is the motto and chorus of the central song of
Friends
: "I will be there for you."
And here were the six from
Central Perk
(that invented café-bar, very close to Central Park), with James Corden as host and interviewer in this
structured
meeting
, from minute zero, like a reality show
in which the indivisible stars (Aniston -Cox-Kudrow-LeBlanc-Perry-Schwimmer), already in their fifties, reappeared on the comedic camera-ridden set of WarnerMedia and HBO Max.
The six brushed the furniture and decorations that evoked those of their twenties;
they faced their eyes surrounded by slight or marked wrinkles, and let Corden shoot the vintage interview.
What was happening in scenario B? Better not reveal that detail
: on Twitter and on countless websites there are the avatars of those new gags, and even a playful incomplete test.
Has the veteran Ross (the character of Schwimmer) shed the macho and possessive traits that he displayed from 1994 to 2004?
Will the actor, or the scriptwriters, regret having left those chiaroscuro in the series that, even so, was a pioneer in reflecting affective and sexual diversities before the end of the millennium?
Subtleties for fans
Meanwhile, in the show, the glorious creators of
Friends
(Kevin S. Bright, Martha Kauffman and David Crane) would add topics and subtleties (behind the scenes) of epic episodes of
Friends
, which, it is obvious, will once again be the focus of marathons and fervor among members of Generation X, Millennials, Centennials and Alpha teens who rediscover the world of yesteryear as if it were their own.
Director Ben Winston (who is also the producer of
The Late Late Show with James Corden
)
knows this well
.
All friends together. Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt Leblanc during the "Friends: The Reunion" special.
Photo EFE / Terence Patrick / HBO Max
"
It was not necessary to have so many guests,
" complained not a few fans via Twitter, scrolling down with their finger on their cell phones following the #FriendsReunion trend. What did they mean? It is impossible to hide the information already in view in infinite pages (which will increase the expectation for the Argentine premiere, on June 29). In addition to the showrunners (total producers),
Friends: The Reunion
filmed a battery of ultra-famous fans
to declare their love for the series, renew their vows of faith or review their participation throughout its ten seasons (and 237 episodes).
The list will be long but the moments will unfold strategically over almost two hours:
Lady Gaga
has a musical sketch with Phoebe (Kudrow),
Larry Hankin
returned to play the dense neighbor Mr. Heckles,
Reese Witherspoon
opens up
about his role as Rachel's sister and, among others,
Tom Selleck
(who played Dr. Richard Burke, Monica's boyfriend) pulled a short-lived joke.
And even the mega-planetary South Korean band BTS, as massive in the United States as in Seoul, materialized to say: “
Friends
helped us learn.
It was a great English school and we understood what true friendship is ”.
Lady Gaga participated in Friends: The Reunion, the HBO Max special, and sang Smelly Cat with Lisa Kudrow.
David Beckham revealed his favorite character and, for example, Kit Harington (ex-Jon Snow on
Game of Thrones
, also from WarnerMedia-HBO), showed that he did know: he
analyzed why, for him, comedy works so well
on
Friends
.
What exactly did he say?
On Twitter and wherever you can read it;
On June 29, the scenes will be available on HBO Max in Argentina, to finish understanding the tenor of these tributes: some brighter than others, even with non-famous fans.
But what then do the six protagonists in
Friends: The Reunion do
?
Do they only talk about what will never come back or do they gather lost or pending threads left by the sitcom with its happy and painful ending in 2004?
The return is worth the millions it cost
.
These TV legends return, with intelligence and pristine humanity, to the skins of Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler and Ross.
The evocative meeting on the Central Perk sofa works with different audiovisual rhetoric (under
a script so rigorous that it seems invisible
, even in its less humorous moments).
And many of the doubts that the fans accumulated, and that they transmitted to their children, end up being inescapable in
Friends: The Reunion
.
What were your happiest and unhappiest moments?
How is the relationship between the six in real life?
What happens to them when they see each other again?
Who suffered while recording with the public?
What sensual attraction, perhaps frustrated, was formed in front of and behind the cameras?
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