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Why Leave the World Behind's use of Friends is more meaningful than you think
I'll be there for you… at the end.
Headshot of Mireia MullorBy Mireia MullorPublished: 11 December 2023
In a world where basically everything is lived through a screen, the boundaries between reality and fiction are blurry — for Rose, at that moment, Friends is as real as the end of the world, Ross and Rachel's happy ending as world-altering as a potential civil war….
So no one told you life was going to be this way.
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's DOA.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear,
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.