MORAG LINDSAY: A Friends reunion - could the timing BE any better?
© Allstar/WARNER BROS. TELEVISION Sure, there’s plenty that’s problematic about Friends if you care to view it through the prism of 2021. The fat-shaming, the casual homophobia and transphobia, the lack of diversity among the all-white cast of a sitcom set in arguably the most cosmopolitan city in the world. All valid points. Most of them skirted over in the new televised reunion. Still that didn’t stop it from topping the trending topic lists on social media – or attracting more than a million viewers within seven hours of its release on Thursday. As Chandler Bing might have put it,...