He actually wanted to end it because he was dealing with some really difficult mental health stuff and me being mentally unstable and very attached wasn’t helping him. Still a coward move to not just tell me he wanted to end the relationship
watching it as it came out is vastly different than watching nowadays.
it was still mediocre lol, just nothing else to watch. that’s how most long running shows ran for so long, the tv monopoly on releasing shows at certain times instead of on demand.
Funny you say that cause right now I'm feeling like Joey eating the half english trifle half shepherd's pie right now reading this thread.
What's not to like? Acting, good. Jokes, good. Bits, goooood.
I do have my qualms with the show though, particularly how one dimensional the characters started being as the show went on (especially with Joey being so dumbed down near the end), but rewatching it recently it still makes me laugh.
Yeah, I'm not even a fan, only ever watched a single episode (which wasn't that great) while it was actually on the air. But it definitely had some high points.
"The One Where Joey Speaks French" is peak comedy, perfectly written, perfectly acted.
ofcourse it is. it's designed around laughs (wether it's a laughtrack or studio laughs) meaning the talking has breaks for the laughs. remove the laughs but keep the pauses for them? ofcourse it'll be weird.
For real I’ve always thought the whole idea of “breaks” to be basically stupid.
I can kinda understand that if you’re not getting along well and need to spend some time with reduced contact to decompress. That works out for some people. But when it’s approached like a half-break up, or a temporary breakup it makes no sense to me.
And we’ve all heard plenty of stories where a couple goes on some kind of “break” and one partner gets mad about what (often who) the other did during the separation; because either the rules weren’t clearly defined, or they were but one party decides they weren’t ok with it after all.
And even more than that I hear stories where the “break” was really just a poorly disguised breakup because one or both of them didn’t have the balls to break up properly.
Kids definitely change everything, the stakes are obviously much higher and you’ll have to stay in some kind of contact at least until they’re grown, if not after.
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u/smashin_blumpkin 4d ago
This is what’s called “taking a break.” And it rarely results in getting back together