Dr. Dolly Alderton

Rachel's character quite nuanced in that she is this incredibly cool girl who everyone wants to get near and be friends with.

But she's also sort of a bit sort of just spoiled and kind of unprepared for life in a way I find very recognizable.

Especially in those early seasons when she's still on that journey.

I never thought about that before.

But yeah, of course, like the friends coincides with the sort of mass acceptance that everybody who's creative and lives in New York also has a therapist.

No matter who we're talking about, it all joins up.

It really is if this, then this.

But thinking of quite advanced psychological thinking, which is, again, for what is supposed to be a broad brush sitcom that plays to every country in the world in every language for every age group and every demographic.

What was it even like to have a friend pre the mainstreaming of Psycho Talk?

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah When my mum was just like Maybe just WhatsApp Would have been out of business Sitting around with her Exactly When my mum was sitting around With her mates in 1981 Or whatever When they were bitching Were they just like She's being a bit of a cow Yeah And then would the conversation Just end there Or would they not talk about Like that her dad Ran out on her mum Or whatever Do you know what I mean?

Yeah What was it like To have a friend in 1981?

Please write it I genuinely want to know Let's watch Cheers And find out

I was going to say this, actually.

I was thinking about this last night because obviously everybody I've spoken to on this miniseries has talked about which friend I identify with.

And people are often almost too scared to identify with Rachel because it's a bit like identifying as Carrie Bradshaw or identifying as Jo March.

It's like, well, I'm the main one.

The one everyone's obsessed with.

That's me.

But actually, I was like, oh, Dolly is Rachel, actually, because like...