Friends Reunion Review: Nostalgia and all that, that's all

The much-anticipated Friends Reunion Special episode starts streaming online tomorrow, May 27. You can watch it on Zee5 at 12.32 pm tomorrow if you are in India.

It is a show that got many of us through some of our worst phases. The dark nights that we drowned in Chandler's jokes or the crushes we went back to in mind, asking 'How you doin'?' We gave 10 years of our lives to Friends. And over the course of these 10 years, the Central Perk Six became our friends. None of them were stars for us. They were flawed. They were selfish. They fought. They made up. They were real. They were like you and me. So much so, that all of us who gave that amount of time to the 10 Seasons of Friends, imbibed each of these characters within us. We realised that we were a little Monica, a little Rachel, a bit of Phoebe, a tad Ross, maybe some of Joey, and then, a part of Chandler. We were them. They were us. But that was 17 years ago. It is 2021, and we have all grown up. We have been through harder days. No, no one told us life was gonna be this way. 2020 wasn't our year. 2021, if you're in India especially, is not your year either. So when HBO Max announced a 105-minute Reunion, all Friends fans across the world thought they had something to look forward to 'in these gloomy times', you know, like all our work emails begin in these gloomy times.