FRIENDS

Getting bored at home and waiting for my joining at Henkel, Chennai, I have recently watched the whole 10 seasons of Friends all over. Fascinated and smitten by the series ‘that never ends’ as always, I was forced to Google and wiki about it and came across a plethora of information on Friends.
Most fascinating was the influence series had on the American society in terms of Fashion and lifestyle. With the ‘Rachel’ becoming the most popular hairstyle for the coming years, it spawned a change in the way Americans’ view over the living together and relationships. Joey’s line “How you Doin” became a catchphrase all across the world. People emulated the dressing styles of the 6 immortalized characters create by David Krane and Marta Kauffman. So many popular apparel styles were introduced by Friends that one can lose count of that.
The popularity of the series might be a little behind the other popular ones like M*A*S*H and Seinfield, but it was a major influencer on the lives of American in particular and world in general. Such is the power of Television over society is seen to be believed. Whenever I have watched an episode of Friends, the timelessness and freshness appealed to me uniquely. The café culture we are witnessing today in India came, like many good and bad things in the past 40 years, from USA. And the originator was Friends.