Kind of like when Monica the chef-in-training and Rachel the clerical worker had that great, huge Manhattan apartment filled with high priced items in “Friends,” complete with gourmet meals all the time and fabulous vacations.
Soaps do the same stuff (it’s why there are so many doctors and whatnot), but it’s to take the viewer away from the mundane. A daily soap with a single mom struggling to pay the bills isn’t really fun to watch. That’s all fine, but it’s these movies and TV shows that ‘transcend’ the genre that get us. They actually purport to teach the rest of us about how we should behave, based on all this fakery. The nerve of these people is pretty interesting.
Your tagline is one of my favorite quotes.
Ahh, but the apartment is disposed of in episode one, when Monica tells her buds she just “inherited” (NYC rent-control) it and all its cool art-deco furnishings from her late grandmother.
That’s how our two heroines could afford the swanky digs, Monica, of course was a chef. I don’t recall much about fabulous vacations but I thought Rachel was from a rich family and was well-supplemented.
That said, year-after-year it got harder to watch our characters keep acting like goofball youngsters as they got into their thirties. That’s never a pretty sight in the real world, especially with real people not so toned and telegenic.