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A Friends-Newbie’s Thoughts on the Ross Geller Type

A Friends-Newbie’s Thoughts on the Ross Geller Type

I had never watched Friends before it very recently went on Netflix in the beginning of 2015. By that point I had already seen all the other sitcoms where a group of straight white people have quirky shenanigans in New York City, but I had never seen the ‘original’ cult-classic obsession. So I started it, and as much as the wannabe-cynical-anti-mainstream-hipster part of me didn’t want to like it, of course I did. Gosh freaking darn it, I did, from…

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Critically Rewatching Gilmore Girls

Critically Rewatching Gilmore Girls

I. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Dick Cavett expressed his appreciation for rereading. According to the author and former talk show host, “We’d all have been better off to have read half as many books. Twice.” I’m inclined to agree with Cavett – at least in part because I had to visit dictionary.com multiple times to decipher his interview, and I tend to look upon those with robust vocabularies with an oft-inappropriate level of reverence. I…

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