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TrophyDad_72 t1_j24t9mz wrote

My thoughts are the same for the criticism of a non diverse Friends cast - it was a product of its time and it worked. Both were hits. So there. Not everything needs to make a statement sometimes just being entertained is enough.

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North_South_Side t1_j258nux wrote

Friends wasn't heavily criticized for having a core cast of white people. It's that they lived in NYC and almost everyone who ever appeared on the show was white—with a few exceptions.

NYC is not all that white.

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Delicious-Tachyons t1_j25dk5g wrote

Blame the casting director. Maybe they thought showing other types of people would make it less marketable. TV executives are the stupidest people to ever make millions of dollars that aren't pro-athletes.

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OneGoodRib t1_j25m4zc wrote

Why the downvotes? Is it NOT the fault of the casting director and the tv executives when a show has a lot of white people? Whose fault is it when a show only casts white people, then? Is it Jennifer Aniston's fault?

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Delicious-Tachyons t1_j25mus4 wrote

possible because i called pro-athletes stupid

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nyuckajay t1_j262rrh wrote

Well…. I mean not all of them are stupid, but if I had to pick a group of people most likely to be stupid, and rich, it’d be athletes or lottery winners…

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kazh t1_j25y983 wrote

Friends worked because it had to work. That formula was all there was to watch when the tv was on unless you wanted to hang around for obscure hours to catch Living Single or other stuff.

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