Friends Reunion on HBO Max is out today - tell me your thoughts!

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Anonymous wrote:Jen did something to her upper lip to take out the wrinkles and it put more space between her nose and mouth.
Leslie stahl on 60 minutes looks like she did the same thing and it looks so odd.

I’m increasingly noticing 50-something actresses who specifically have something weird going on with their upper lip. Not sure exactly what it is.

It's filler or botox to erase upper lip lines. Particularly for a smoker like Jen A, she'd have serious lines in that part of her face. Unfortunately it affects her speech, and she now sounds like she's mumbling with marbles in her mouth. Dumb choice for an actress.

Is that what it is? Her nose also looked much smaller or is it because she had filler to her upper lip and it's distorting the size of her nose? She just didn't look natural and she's usually gorgeous!

Jen has had two nose jobs that we know of, one in 1997 and one in 2007. I also think she has done something to make her face more round looking and not the “heart” shape she had before. Don’t know about the upper lip stuff. I do think her forehead has had botox. Possibly neck as well? Usually very difficult to hide aging in the neck. Jen has put some weight on and is finally aging.

Court says she only used fillers and they have all dissolved and is now natural. If you look at “Monica”, you can sometimes see where the left eye is smaller or lower than the right. Good makeup artist can “hide” this defect. I think if she put some weight, 5-10 pounds, she would look better.

I thought Jennifer Anniston looked as fit/slim as ever. Her face looked puffy because of the fillers but I didn't notice any weight gain. It's sad to me that so many women feel compelled to go the fillers route. It's interesting-both she and Courtney Cox have a ton of money and can afford to get whatever they want done but ultimately I'm sure both would look so much better if they had spent less and aged naturally or just had a minor amount of cosmetic work done. Less is more in this case.

I think it's ultimately a status thing, not a looks thing. Women of a certain socioeconomic status all get this work done. It looks strange to the proletariat, but it's normal in their social circles. Like expensive handbags or shoes, it's a way of signaling cachet.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a huge Friends fan. Have and always will love the show and was not even looking forward to watching this because I just want to leave them how I remember them 17 years ago. But, I went in with low expectations...and was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this reunion and it brought back so many memories. Yes, some of it was ridiculous--the fashion show? come on. But, I liked when they were on set reminiscing and I even though I knew about the Jen/David crush before tuning in, I loved the scenes they showed of them flirting on set from years ago.

Something has happened to Jen's face--what is it? Did she shrink her nose? Get fuller cheeks? Something looks out of proportion and it was bothering me the entire time watching. Her body is amazing, but what did she do to her face??

Matt LeBlanc came off as genuinely nice and sweet--he seemed to be having fun getting together with everyone.

Matthew is painful to watch. The poor guy just looks and sounds awful. I wish he could get some help.

David looks oddly puffy, but you can tell how much he loved playing Ross and his appreciation and adoration for the show.

Lisa hasn't changed a bit and she just embodies Phoebe. Love her.

Courtney did too much botox on her face. It's too bad--she was gorgeous back in the day.

Jennifer had a nose job.
So did David and Lisa.

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Anonymous wrote:Jen did something to her upper lip to take out the wrinkles and it put more space between her nose and mouth.
Leslie stahl on 60 minutes looks like she did the same thing and it looks so odd.

I’m increasingly noticing 50-something actresses who specifically have something weird going on with their upper lip. Not sure exactly what it is.

It's filler or botox to erase upper lip lines. Particularly for a smoker like Jen A, she'd have serious lines in that part of her face. Unfortunately it affects her speech, and she now sounds like she's mumbling with marbles in her mouth. Dumb choice for an actress.

Is that what it is? Her nose also looked much smaller or is it because she had filler to her upper lip and it's distorting the size of her nose? She just didn't look natural and she's usually gorgeous!

Jen has had two nose jobs that we know of, one in 1997 and one in 2007. I also think she has done something to make her face more round looking and not the “heart” shape she had before. Don’t know about the upper lip stuff. I do think her forehead has had botox. Possibly neck as well? Usually very difficult to hide aging in the neck. Jen has put some weight on and is finally aging.

Court says she only used fillers and they have all dissolved and is now natural. If you look at “Monica”, you can sometimes see where the left eye is smaller or lower than the right. Good makeup artist can “hide” this defect. I think if she put some weight, 5-10 pounds, she would look better.

I thought Jennifer Anniston looked as fit/slim as ever. Her face looked puffy because of the fillers but I didn't notice any weight gain. It's sad to me that so many women feel compelled to go the fillers route. It's interesting-both she and Courtney Cox have a ton of money and can afford to get whatever they want done but ultimately I'm sure both would look so much better if they had spent less and aged naturally or just had a minor amount of cosmetic work done. Less is more in this case.

I think it's ultimately a status thing, not a looks thing. Women of a certain socioeconomic status all get this work done. It looks strange to the proletariat, but it's normal in their social circles. Like expensive handbags or shoes, it's a way of signaling cachet.

Like the Capitol in Hunger Games!

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Anonymous wrote:Jen did something to her upper lip to take out the wrinkles and it put more space between her nose and mouth.
Leslie stahl on 60 minutes looks like she did the same thing and it looks so odd.

I’m increasingly noticing 50-something actresses who specifically have something weird going on with their upper lip. Not sure exactly what it is.

It's filler or botox to erase upper lip lines. Particularly for a smoker like Jen A, she'd have serious lines in that part of her face. Unfortunately it affects her speech, and she now sounds like she's mumbling with marbles in her mouth. Dumb choice for an actress.

Is that what it is? Her nose also looked much smaller or is it because she had filler to her upper lip and it's distorting the size of her nose? She just didn't look natural and she's usually gorgeous!

Jen has had two nose jobs that we know of, one in 1997 and one in 2007. I also think she has done something to make her face more round looking and not the “heart” shape she had before. Don’t know about the upper lip stuff. I do think her forehead has had botox. Possibly neck as well? Usually very difficult to hide aging in the neck. Jen has put some weight on and is finally aging.

Court says she only used fillers and they have all dissolved and is now natural. If you look at “Monica”, you can sometimes see where the left eye is smaller or lower than the right. Good makeup artist can “hide” this defect. I think if she put some weight, 5-10 pounds, she would look better.

I thought Jennifer Anniston looked as fit/slim as ever. Her face looked puffy because of the fillers but I didn't notice any weight gain. It's sad to me that so many women feel compelled to go the fillers route. It's interesting-both she and Courtney Cox have a ton of money and can afford to get whatever they want done but ultimately I'm sure both would look so much better if they had spent less and aged naturally or just had a minor amount of cosmetic work done. Less is more in this case.

I think it's ultimately a status thing, not a looks thing. Women of a certain socioeconomic status all get this work done. It looks strange to the proletariat, but it's normal in their social circles. Like expensive handbags or shoes, it's a way of signaling cachet.

Like the Capitol in Hunger Games!

+1

Yup: "Im puffy!!" "Me too!"" "Let's be friends forever!!"

Ew.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Matthew Perry has dentures and that's why he talks funny. Why he has dentures? I wouldn't want to speculate....

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I'm rooting for him. All that money, so young - not usually a good thing.....

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Anonymous wrote:I think Matthew Perry has dentures and that's why he talks funny. Why he has dentures? I wouldn't want to speculate....

+1

I'm rooting for him. All that money, so young - not usually a good thing.....

Agreed, I noticed his teeth looked super fake.

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Wow, I had really low expectations but I absolutely loved it. I was in high school at the height of Friends and it’s so nostalgic to me. I agree that it aged terribly poorly and I don’t let my kids watch it but I am surprised by how emotional and nostalgic I got. I love how much the cast clearly loves each other.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I had really low expectations but I absolutely loved it. I was in high school at the height of Friends and it’s so nostalgic to me. I agree that it aged terribly poorly and I don’t let my kids watch it but I am surprised by how emotional and nostalgic I got. I love how much the cast clearly loves each other.

Why don’t you let your kids watch it? (There could be lots of valid reasons, like age. Just curious.)

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The teens I know watch it. My 15 year old and her best friend love it. Mine even picked a shirt for Election Day that was Friends inspired.

Save some of the unfortunate gay jokes (product of the times), I don’t think it’s all that bad. Am I missing something?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I had really low expectations but I absolutely loved it. I was in high school at the height of Friends and it’s so nostalgic to me. I agree that it aged terribly poorly and I don’t let my kids watch it but I am surprised by how emotional and nostalgic I got. I love how much the cast clearly loves each other.

Why don’t you let your kids watch it? (There could be lots of valid reasons, like age. Just curious.)

Like PP said I think the gay jokes are pretty cringy, the fat jokes, a lot of bad messages. I’m not super uptight, I don’t think, and I let my kids watch other sitcoms I loved growing up like the Golden Girls, the Office, etc. But there are jokes along the lines of “no homo” in a really high number of episodes. It’s unfortunate and sort of ruins the show for me.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Matthew Perry has dentures and that's why he talks funny. Why he has dentures? I wouldn't want to speculate....

+1

I'm rooting for him. All that money, so young - not usually a good thing.....

Agreed, I noticed his teeth looked super fake.

His teeth changed in season 6/7 or 8 and his lisp got more pronounced. You can see in early episodes his teeth were not perfectly lined up. In later episodes they were. Either fake or caps.

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Anonymous wrote:The teens I know watch it. My 15 year old and her best friend love it. Mine even picked a shirt for Election Day that was Friends inspired.

Save some of the unfortunate gay jokes (product of the times), I don’t think it’s all that bad. Am I missing something?

Well, there's the lack of diversity, for one thing. Apparently Schwimmer had to beg for girlfriends of color, and even then, Julie and Charlie were shallow characters with no substance to them whatsoever. There's a reason Aisha Taylor, Lauren Tom, and hell, even Christina Applegate and Paul Rudd didn't guest star.

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The gay jokes are so interesting to me now knowing now that one of the creators was gay - one of the creators talked about his husband being on Mad About You.

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Anonymous wrote:The teens I know watch it. My 15 year old and her best friend love it. Mine even picked a shirt for Election Day that was Friends inspired.

Save some of the unfortunate gay jokes (product of the times), I don’t think it’s all that bad. Am I missing something?

Well, there's the lack of diversity, for one thing. Apparently Schwimmer had to beg for girlfriends of color, and even then, Julie and Charlie were shallow characters with no substance to them whatsoever. There's a reason Aisha Taylor, Lauren Tom, and hell, even Christina Applegate and Paul Rudd didn't guest star.

I wondered why none of the minority actors returned for this. Aisha Taylor and Lauren Tom were great, among the more dimensional guest star characters. I didn’t think they were shallow, but rather more logical choices for Ross. Rachel made no sense on paper, was a “heart wants what the heart wants” thing.

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I cringed.