Rewatching Friends during quarantine by Jessica Foley
“it’s about sex, love, relationships, careers, a time in your life when everything’s possible.” The episodes shudder from one to the next you crawl, subterranean you have long missed your stop. Drain-like, diverted the slick sheen of the unfailingly predictable. “it’s about sex,” a calendar of bowls sporulates around you. You need to buy batteries “love,” you want to throttle Ross “relationships,” has anyone called you today? When was the last time someone called you? What did you do? “careers,” what have you done? “a time in your life” done? (the ticker counts down, not up) “when everything’s possible.” 6