Caroline

I was talking to some of my best friends about how they feel about the deepest human relationships in their life.

how they feel at this point in their life, where they are with their relationships.

And like, I just feel like they offer this really interesting archetype of like how we talk about our relationships in general.

Like the last episode I did, I ended up like realizing some of the feelings I had about being in a family that I never would have realized if I weren't talking about it through the guardrails of friends.

Do you know what I mean?

It's like a safe thing to hold onto while you navigate some like kind of interesting psychological territory for yourself.

Always, constantly.

But yeah, I've got some very strong theories on Ross' sexuality, which I believe to be strong and magnetic.

But I kind of want to sit on Chandler for a while because he's also, this being the last episode of Friends Through a Lens, he's kind of the friend we've spoken about the least.

And I actually think Christmas belongs to Chandler in a way because I think one of the most satisfying arcs of the show is Christmas and Chandler, you know?

And they're like, yeah.

And every year it's all throughout the series.

It's like, oh, and I guess Chandler is going to be like Eeyore about Thanksgiving again and say something snappy about Thanksgiving again.

And then when it gets to the point, and of course, like that root trauma is in the fact that his father was having an affair and it was revealed to him on Thanksgiving.

And then it's like Chandler is given the opportunity to have an affair on Thanksgiving and doesn't take it and comes home to his wife.

Yeah.

And it's like also, and it's a clip show episode.

And it's like one of the only arguments for like, oh wow, it's an artistically substantive clip show episode.

It's never happened anywhere else in culture before.

But because the whole arc is about him leaving behind this childhood trauma of like, I hate Thanksgiving because of who I was age zero to 20.