“Friends” made most of its social bets on gender differences, the way men get away with being chauvinists and lust buckets and layabouts, and the women have to pick up the slack.

Friends managed to be simultaneously progressive and regressive. The show famously lacked diversity – yet featured several interracial relationships matter-of-factly.

As she and her friends grew closer, she realized they were a deep well of community and healing. And she began to understand the importance of non-romantic, non-family relationships.

With close friends and family, there are usually hugs, stroking of arms, and pats on the shoulder—which goes back to basic primate "grooming." Physical contact on the flesh triggers the brain's ...

Recently, Friends was added to Netflix in the UK, and millennials were astounded by the problematic elements that persisted for 10 seasons.

‘Friends’ lack of diversity ‘embarrassed’ its co-creator. So she made a $4-million decision Marta Kauffman, co-creator of “Friends,” in her office in Los Angeles in 2019.

If you are forever canceling on your friends or failing to make a point of seeing them or talking to them or interacting with them, then you are not being a good friend and you are not maintaining a ...

“Friends” is officially 25, which means it’s time for a super low-key birthday celebration with its dearest pals — a group that exceeded 52 million when the sitcom aired its final episode ...

The amount of time you actually spend with your friends matters, too. Dr. Hall’s research suggests that on average, very close friendships tend to take around 200 hours to develop.

You lose friends to success, to failure, to flukish strokes of good or ill luck. (Envy, dear God—it’s the mother of all unspeakables in a friendship, the lulu of all shames.) ...