Ella Risbridger

But it's shot in this way that feels almost Lynchian.

It's so bizarre to have...

the help in inverted commas in like an all-white like servant's outfit proffering a platter saying more turkey Mr Chandler in a kind of like an accent I'm not entirely sure what it's supposed to be like yeah it sort of sounds like a horrible fake Indian accent but why would that be the case I don't know so it's all very strange it feels dreamlike and you don't see either of the heads of the parents yes it's very cow and chicken as you can see

It's just a little boy, immaculately dressed, sitting at a table groaning with food, in my memory, surrounded by like pot plants and flowers, in a hugely luxurious house, while a quite small servant says to him in a sort of mystery accent, more turkey, Mr. Chandler.

And from that, we understand that that is the moment that Chandler understood that his father was in a sexual relationship with this servant.

There's a lot going on there.

I can't think of anything else in Friends where it dips into that kind of texture.

yeah right and it has these bursts of um artistic achievement like when emma's born or is it ben i can't remember and they're all like oh it's ben when ben's born and the closing credits are all shot from the perspective of ben it's like he's opening his eyes again and then it goes like and you see them all over the crib and it's like oh look he's closing his eyes and then it goes black

And so Friends does have these little like flourishes of being like, what if this was art?

I could do it.

I could make an art.

Yes, you're so right.

Because that's why there's no adults present.

They don't have his parents there having a fight.

Like, it's not like a classic divorce sequence.

It's like a dream.

It's like a bad dream.

And that bad dream has haunted Chandler his whole life.

Thank you.

What a great opportunity to plug two of my books.