Is friends one of the most evil shows of our generation?

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Hi all,

Just wanted to share some thoughts with you. I grew up watching friends, I watched it from early teens to adulthood, its witty and the characters are just lovable. In the past i’ve bought the box set, merchandise.

However over the last couple of year I’ve realised how evil this t.v show is.

Why:
Before same sex marriage was legal, it normalised same sex marriage and parenting - Ross’s ex wife and son Ben being raised by two lesbians
IVF - Phoebe giving birth to her brothers babies
Second or third marriages - Ross and other characters
Pornography & masturbation is okay
one night stands
lesbian kisses
trying to normalise transexuals - chandlers dad
being married by mates instead of priests
strip clubs/ strippers
contraception - couples always talking about using condoms
Having children before marriage

I’m sad about this because the show is funny, but I feel I can’t watch it anymore as its message offends God :confused:
does anyone else feel the same?
 
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I would say the show titled “Lucifer” would rank high on that list.
 
I didn’t think it was funny. I never found anything about the show to reflect reality in any way at all. So, I guess I didn’t take any of it’s plot lines seriously. It was way too “cute” of a show, kind of Barneyish.
 
I watched a bit recently ,didn’t watch it when it was new…thought it kind of looked homely nah …nothing concrete,nothing homely or relatable about it really ,and I couldn’t crack a laugh on top of that.And I did think a lot about all those growing up with this as their standard,sad.
 
it’s a show about stuff that goes on in today’s society.
Every single thing on the show has happened in my circle of friends and acquaintances. It’s real life.
Obviously, that doesn’t make all the behavior in it okay from a Catholic moral POV, but then again, in every society throughout history people have been doing things as part of daily life that weren’t okay from a Catholic moral POV. I don’t get all wound up and start clutching my pearls and gasping in horror when I see those things in a movie or on a TV show.

I never found the show particularly evil, or particularly funny, or particularly interesting - why do I need to watch a TV show about ordinary people who aren’t even as interesting to me as people I know who are doing much the same things? I probably watched it 2 or 3 times on an airplane or in a waiting room lobby when I had nothing else to do. Same as probably 98 percent of TV shows for the past 20 years.
 
I watched it … twice… some episodes were funny.
Actually a lot of it, not just what you mentioned is about lifestyle that isn’t Christian nor traditionalist. (everyone’s with everyone and they get married only at the end). But it’s a portrayal of how people live or used to live in the 90s. It’s no longer a fresh show (it’s 2 decades old) and I didn’t know it was the first show who mentioned all those issues. Ok I am defending it a little bit, I am not like a fan of the show but I thought it funny. Not as memorable as '“Seinfeld”" who also portrays how people live and none of them are traditional Christian or Jewish in some case and the characters are simply not nice people most of the times (but they do get judged for it at the end…can’t stop from smiling here just remembering the trial). I watched it more times than friends.
Since they are comedies it’s not really clear if they encourage what they portray or not. For example Ross is very unhappy with what his wife and I think some of the jokes would be boycotted by lgbtq activists as homophobic.
 
If by evil you mean bad and not funny, then yes.
 
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I didn’t know it was the first show who mentioned all those issues.
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It wasn’t, except possibly that the gay themes were more prevalent in the 90s and more sensitively handled than they would have been 2 decades earlier when gay people were usually just the butt of jokes on sitcoms.

There were transsexuals and unwed pregnancies and all that sort of thing on shows all through the 1970s. Norman Lear’s shows were the ones that initially pushed the envelope. It was pre-AIDS, so there was even more emphasis on sexuality as opposed to relationships. About the only difference is people didn’t use condoms then because it was pre-AIDS.
 
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