21年后《老友记》在纽约的青少年中再度走红_时事

21年后《老友记》在纽约的青少年中再度走红

Having debuted during the first few months of the Giuliani administration, the show keepsthings dingy and menacing way past the point at which the city itself had exfoliated its grimierlayers. The seemingly genial neighborhood tailor is likely to grope his male clients beforealtering their trousers. The guy you can see outside your apartment window is naked andcreepy. Phoebe and Ross are mugged in a back alley seemingly borrowed from the set of “Rentnear their coffee bar, Central Perk, well into the first Bloomberg term. At another point, Phoebeand Rachel decide they need to learn self-defense to ward off predators.

该剧开播之时，朱利亚尼(Giuliani)刚担任纽约市长几个月。当时的纽约市已经焕然一新，但是该剧所展示的生活环境却还是肮脏、危险。貌似友好的街坊男裁缝很会在改裤子之前揩男顾客的油。住在对面公寓里的男人总是光着身子，让人感觉怪怪的。菲比(Phoebe)和罗斯(Ross)在他们最爱的中央公园咖啡馆(Central Perk)附近的一条背街里被打劫，那条街似乎是借用《吉屋出租》(Rent)的布景。那时候，布隆伯格(Bloomberg)在纽约市长位置上的首任任期已经过了相当一段时间。在另一集里，菲比和蕾切尔(Rachel)决定学习防身术来抵挡罪犯。

What’s novel about “Friends, or what must seem so to a certain subset of New Yorkteenagers of whom so much is expected, is the absence among the six central characters ofany quality of corrosive ambition. The show refuses to take professional life or creativeaspirations too seriously. What does Chandler Bing actually do? I was never entirely sure. In theseries’ ninth season he is an advertising intern. On “Girls you have writers who are trying to beMary Karr; on “Friends you have actors who want to be on “Days of Our Lives.