Caroline

that wasn't just like two incredibly stressed out women.

He has a child, of course.

In other sense, Jack Geller is actually the father of all of the friends in some senses, because, of course, many of the friends have celebrated previous holidays together.

It was awful.

And eventually after an hour of us trying to wring some charisma out of it, we were like, we got to stop this.

We got it.

We got to stop.

For a long, long time, boys and girls.

Because yeah, this is the other bit of news, really.

Because this is the last episode of the year.

But I'm also, I'm going on a hiatus after this, really.

I mean, the reason that I wanted to cap out sentimental garbage with incredibly long episodes about friends is that I wanted to really feed people before I fasted them.

You know what?

It really is.

And I'm so glad that you brought that up because the act of watching all these episodes and discussing them with people who I'm like really quite close with and people who I also know I'm not going to see for a long time because I'm going to be coming back to London for weekends here and there.

But for the most part, like I'm going to,

head down in a new life where it was almost like recording with Kate, recording with Dolly, recording with Ryan.

Yes, we were talking about this TV show that everyone knows and loves, but it's almost like talking about friends to millennials is almost like talking about like, you know,

stations of the cross or like it like very important biblical stories that everybody knows everybody knows it so well and all of these like archetypes of these pretend people are so recognizable whether you're talking about like you know like monica and her relationship with her mother or ross's relationship with phoebe or joey's relationship with phoebe or whatever there is such well-worn ideas because everyone has seen it like one million times

What I found with doing this series is that very soon I wasn't talking to Ryan about Phoebe or to Dolly about fucking Mrs. Geller or whatever.