IIIIIIIII’lllll be there for you……..
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by The LandLady in Comment, News
Yeah right. Or maybe we’re being too cynical? Sorry, we’re talking about the tv show Friends. You know the one – it’s on every day on some channel or another even though it hit the airwaves 15 years ago and the last episode was about 5 years ago.
When it comes to flatmates/housemates/roomates most of us probably think of Friends. It’s like we’ve been brainwashed. But there are other shows, right? Other ones that depict people who are not necessarily family or a couple living together. What are they? Housemates. No, I mean what are the shows? What did you like about them? Were they realistic? OTT?
We’d like to do a bit of crowdsourcing and get you to tell us what TV show other than Friends that is a good example of housemates – and look they don’t have to be from hell. They can be as harmonious as possible.
Answers on a postcard – well not really, but you know what I mean – to:
The Landlady,
Housemates from Hell
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My husband always bangs on about ‘This Life’ and a particular character called Egg, who later appeared in Teachers. I never saw the series as I was living outside the country at the time it aired (on BBC?) but hubby was so impressed by it that I now wish it was re-run on telly so I can see what he’s talking about. Anyone else thought it was good? Think it should be re-run, like Friends was, until Channel 4 recently decided to pull the re-run plug?
Does ‘Three’s Company’ even deserve a mention? I didn’t think so.
One thing I found so unrealistic about Friends was that they constantly complained about having crap jobs but still had enough money to rent the most amazing (for New York) and spacious apartments. Most of my income when I lived in NY went towards the rent of a windowless room in a shoe-box apartment that I shared with three others and my bedroom door was totally detached from its hinges. I had to prop it up against the doorframe every night for privacy.
One of my fave shows was The Secret Life of Us an Aussie show that they only showed really late at night on Channel 4.
It was narrated by a hippie writer dude called Evan and followed the lives of a few flatmates in a block of flats in the trendy St Kilda in Melbourne.
It was realistic from the amount of booze they all drank and people getting pissed off with each other. Apaprently all the stories were based on true stories that the scriptwriters had heard of in real life!