I might never be able to leave my apartment again after saying this, but I didn’t really get into Friends.

I tried, believe me. The hype promised the best show in the world but I only made it, grudgingly, through three episodes.

I am, admittedly, in the minority.

Everyone of a certain age seems to love this show, and that love is being rewarded with a Friends reunion.

As for Monica, Chandler, Phoebe, Joey, Ross, and Rachel – the whole gang will be there, at a hefty price.

Per The Verge:

Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, and Matthew Perry will all return for a one-off special that’s set to debut along with HBO Max in May.

The cast “will earn more than double their former per-episode fee for the reunion and be paid between $2.5 million and $3 million for the special,” according to The Hollywood Reporter, which was reporting based on anonymous sources.

That’s more than double what the actors were paid per episode in the 10th and last season in 2004.

HBO Max snatched Friends from Netflix, paying more than $425 million in 2019 to secure exclusive rights to the series.

The Friends special also provides HBO Max with something the service desperately needs: appointment TV that will drive subscribers. Disney was able to generate hype for its streaming service, Disney Plus, through weekly episodes of The Mandalorian. The show, which introduced the world to Baby Yoda, became a constant talking point online for eight weeks.

The world is very grateful for Baby Yoda.

The release date for the reunion episode hasn’t been confirmed yet, but if you’d like to know what they all look like now, Jennifer Aniston posted pictures of a mini-reunion with the cast on Instagram:

#NoFilter.

Feel old yet?

[source:verge]