Dear Friends,

How could you do this to me? When I first got involved with this show, I thought “Hey, I think I’ll finally watch this show from start to finish. I enjoy this show when I watch old re-runs on Nickelodeon. This will be a good show for me to watch on Netflix”. And look at me now. I am obsessed. I finished watching the entire series and didn’t even wait a full 24 hours to start watching it again. Any brief mention of a tiny quote from the show sets me off on a tangent, and I can’t go one day without watching at least one episode. When I meet new people, I assign them which character from Friends I think they are, and I literally have certain items in my wardrobe called my “Monica shirt” or my “Phoebe skirt”. I dressed up as Rachel for Halloween for crying out loud!

What the heck. How can one television show be so funny and so relatable and so in-your-feelings and overall light-hearted at the same time? How can an idea so simple be so so so addicting that I feel the need to dedicate an entire Odyssey article towards it? By watching a Netflix show, I did not sign up for a lifetime commitment towards it. But now I have one.

So thank you, Friends. Thank you creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman for producing a series that I simply cannot get enough of. You officially have my heart eternally. I hope you are happy.

Sincerely,

Korin Norton- Obsessed with Friends