It started with purdue and oxycodone. They pushed that minor pains should be treated rather than severe pains in end of life situations. Head aches, sports injuries, work injuries all of a sudden became how they made their money. Thus getting normal, working people hooked. They lied that its time release technology made it less addictive when in fact the drug was ineffective and didn't nearly last the 12 hours They said it did. So when people started feeling their pain after 8 hours, they just said up the dose and it will become effective. Which was horse **** and just made people entirely dependant. How did they get away with it? They ran shonky trials in some back water in Puerto Rico which they massaged the statistics of. They bribed the FDA official to get it approved. They ended up putting him on 400k per year on their payroll once it had gone through. When it came out that people had distorted abusing it, they ran a smear campaign against drug abusers ruining a perfectly safe drug. They were straight up Machiavellian. Michael Keaton was in a very good miniseries about it a couple of years ago called dopesick. Well worth watching. Now it's synthetic opioid like fentanyl making things worse but oxycodone started it.
Been on our news channels quite a bit. If an actor from Emmerdale or Eastenders died do you think it would make the news in the USA.
Probably not, but then Emmerdale isn't a hugely popular show in America like Friends was here and indeed all over the globe
Possibly because Friends is known world wide, not something you can claim about the two oxygen cheating programmes you mention Vinkle
I haven't watched dopesick (plan to eventually give it a watch) but netflix have done a similar show called painkiller! At the start of each episode a parent etc..come on with a photo of their son or daughter who lost their life due to becoming addicted to a highly addictive drug that was sold as safe!
For perspective, it is has been said yhos kat day or so that Warner Brothers make around $1bn each year from rights sales for re runs. It always on somewhere. I doubt there's much of a re run market for the programmes you mention.
I watch very little telly of any kind really, apart from football, cricket and some other sports. I'd not miss it if wasn't there apart from that.
Very good point I doubt there is many tv shows that are still regularly played and selling merchandise 20 plus years later on the scale of Friends.
I've only ever seen the odd trailer or seen it in the background at a mates house. It never appealed so I've always wondered why it had such a following. They played some of 'Chandlers funniest moments' on TV today, as a tribute ... ... they weren't really funny. The characters were slightly annoying individuals bitching at each other but basically four people acting their heads off with a script that was so clumsy and fake the jokes were more telegraphed than a Jack Colback pass. It reminded of Michael Bublé which is basically music for people who want everything slick, comfortable and totally safe.
Not sure either of those were as worldwide as friends so probably not. Friends seemed to have something which gripped Everton that generation. My generation. My daughter (13) hopped on board too. He was a little bigger worldwide than “Benny” or ‘Jim MacDonald!
Kind of hitting the exact point of his character. He was “the funny one” but his “funny” was more ironic. The way I saw it anyhow. I loved it. Thought he was brilliant in the role and played it perfectly
It may just be too subtle for me mate, I'm the same with Sex and the City ... I just didn't find it sexy or funny tbh.
I loved/love the programme, but never thought Chandler Byng character very funny. Not near as funny as Joey. But humour, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. I think the humour of the programme was more to do with the quirks of the different characters rather than spoken jokes. But, just my opinion.
Oh don’t start on sex Andy the city. I just never got that! None of it. I watched it hoping for lots of actual sex,and a bit of comedy, but got neither!! Friends was one if thise things that you either did or didn’t like. I did. loved it!! Perry was much more than this though, his addiction struggles throughout his acting life were probably what killed him indirectly. And the charity work he did outside of his acting was unbelievable. Way more to him than the “bad joke guy from friends “ ,
Your not, its all about merchandising, first on the gravy train was David Baddiel on the BBC telling us what a great comedian he was.
Same way I've genuinely never laughed at David Mitchell. Absolute parcel of ****e yet keeps getting paid.
