I started watching Friends in college around 2010 and have seen the whole series maybe 10 times. I used to skip the heavier moments to get back to the jokes. But last week I rewatched the episode where Joey finds out his dad is cheating. For the first time, I didn’t laugh. I saw his face. The way he doesn’t explode. He just goes quiet. Like a kid realizing the people who raised him are not some protected species — they’re just humans who happened to have kids before they figured themselves out. Anyone else have a show they’ve watched a dozen times that finally hit different once you were old enough to see both sides?
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