‘Friends’ Reunion Director Rewatched All 236 Episodes to Reveal New Things About the Show “I did want to come at it and try and find some new angles on it,” Ben Winston tells TheWrap Jennifer Maas | May 27, 2021 @ 6:00 AM (Warning: This post contains spoilers for HBO Max’s “Friends: The Reunion.”) “Friends” fans have been waiting for a reunion special since, let’s be honest here, May 6, 2004 — the day the NBC sitcom ended its highly rated 10-season run. So when Ben Winston signed on to direct the unscripted HBO Max project that would finally reunite Jennifer Aniston, Cou...