For years the networks have tried to re-create the success of Friends by making pilot after pilot about beautiful twenty-somethings living together in New York. Beautiful twenty-somethings living in Los Angeles. Beautiful twenty-somethings investigating sexy child murders in Miami. This template never works, because executives refuse to realize that Friends was the exception, not the rule.
The first time I read this, I thought “this is so true.” The more I looked at it, the more I disagreed, at least on the implication that Friends in itself made everything else mediocre. Writers of the...
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