Enemies
OK, I'll say it. This drawn-out departure of Friends is only one step removed from Chinese water torture. Seems like every time I surf by an NBC affiliate station, I see a Friends promo proclaiming "final episode", "penultimate episode", "three episodes to go". Then there are the TV Guide covers, the E! channel rehashes and restrospectives, Larry King Live, etc. Won't these people ever leave?
I admit I was never a regular watcher of the show. I could never really understand how a show whose cast includes 5 characters who are fundamentally annoying could have become so popular. (Joey Tribbiani is the only character who isn't annoying.) I'll admit some shows exhibit good writing but Friends can't claim to be one of the great sitcoms of TV history. It was good but not great.
Can't Friends just quietly fade to black?
K-
I have never watched friends and never was even tempted to. I consider it a generation gap thing. However, there isn't much on regular network TV that I care for.
Our TV watching is pretty much restricted to cable. All the Discovery channels, the SciFi channel, History, TechTV occasionally and movies when we feel like it.
I watch it in reruns occasionally, but Thursday is primarily Survivor night in the Tightly Wound household.