Friends has been a big part of my life since its original run on NBC that started 30 years ago, and through endless rewatches of the series with my HBO Max subscription, I’ve thought a lot about each character and the situations they get themselves into. Admittedly, I love them all — Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Phoebe and Joey — despite their sometimes-obvious faults, but I happened upon a thread criticizing Jennifer Aniston’s character, and I have to admit some good points were made.
Every Friends fan has their favorite and least-favorite characters. There are people who think Matt LeBlanc’s Joey is too obsessed with food or that Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe is unrealistically off-beat. Many agree that David Schwimmer’s Ross is simply the worst. For one fan on Reddit, however, Rachel Green is the biggest offender, as they began a thread titled “Rachel from Friends is a pretty awful person who just got away with things because she was pretty,” and wrote:
