The cast reassembled for “Friends: The Reunion” (photo credit: HBO Max) Fact: In 2004, I turned 30 years old. I also quit smoking. I also entered the Society of Jesus. “Friends” also aired its last original episode. Obviously, some of these events had more significance in my life than others. Yet in retrospect, they all combined to mark a seismic shift in my life as I moved from young adulthood to just plain adult. “Friends,” a show about people in their 20s grappling with the slings and arrows of adulthood in the big city (New York), happened to occur exactly during the entirety of the decade I was in my 20s grappling with the slings and arrows of adulthood in the big city (Chicago). So, this Gen-X’er carried perhaps a bit more nostalgic weight than most on his flannelled shoulders as he approached HBO Max’s “Friends: The Reunion.”