Here we go again, with the Smiths of sitcoms: it is time for your monthly reminder that the cast of Friends will never, ever be getting back together. Matthew “Chandler Bing” Perry is the latest Friend to come out against any dredging up of the old Central Perk days, telling Variety that the idea of becoming Bing again is so traumatic that it has become a recurring dream. “When I’m asleep, I have this nightmare that we do Friends again and nobody cares. We do a whole series, we come back, and nobody cares about it,” he said. “The thing is, we ended on such a high. We can’t beat it. Why would we go and do it again?”
Perry is being disingenuous about whether people would be interested – there is almost as much time devoted to speculating about this mythical revival as there is to wondering about Jennifer Aniston’s emotional state over a man she divorced 12 years ago and the contents of her uterus. But it is time to accept that the days of a chef, an out-of-work actor and a waitress being able to live in Manhattan are as dead as the cold hearts of property developers, and it could not be any less likely to come back to our screens.
