The massively popular American sitcom Friends may have ended nearly 15 years ago, but its popularity still lives on in 2019.

The show, which follows six 20-something New Yorkers in the ’90s and early Noughties, was still the most binge-watched TV programme of 2018, according to a study from TV Time. And another recent report from Childwise Monitor shows it’s extremely popular with children under the age of 16, ever since it started streaming on Netflix at the beginning of last year.

Few of those 2,000 young people surveyed in the UK were even alive when the show aired, between 1994 to 2004.

Millennial outrage
It’s a very different story to the one we heard in early 2018, when Netflix first aired the show on its streaming platform. At the time, it was reported that millennials, who had never seen it before, were shocked by the sitcom’s storylines, describing them as transphobic, homophobic and sexist.

Although it was progressive for its time, it appeared Friends just hadn’t aged well.

But that, apparently, was a “moo point”, as in December Netflix then paid WarnerMedia $100 million to keep it on its platform for another year.