If Friends Were Filmed in 2020

Fleurine Tideman
16 min readJun 3, 2020

I have always been someone who hated reboots. I’m young enough not to have lived through too many, but the mere mention of the new 90210, Charmed, Full House or Roswell is enough to get my blood boiling. Why ruin a good thing by pushing it further? As a writer, I just couldn’t understand why you’d risk spoiling the original, and not come up with a new storyline instead.

But then I recently wrote an article on a Friends episode placed in the time of COVID 19, and it was such a fun thought experiment. It led me to wonder all the things that would be different about my favourite…

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Fleurine Tideman

Freelance copywriter. SEO marketer. Aspiring novelist. Top Writer in Mental Health. Writing the articles I once needed. My newsletter: https://bit.ly/3FZCJJx