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* After ten years on the air, Friends finally came to an end. The show was not witty or even especially funny, and its attempt to present Chandler as a one-man Algonquin Round Table was sad. The characters were not interesting. Ross's insipidity made us nostalgic for Alan Alda: It turns out that even models of neutered masculinity are capable of generational decline. There was something insidious about the seemingly nonstop campaign of celebrity journalists to persuade us that the actors really were friends, ...

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