Can we be „Friends“?

My favorite sitcom „Friends“ ended a couple of months ago. It was kind of sad to say good bye to all the characters and their weekly stories. I wasn’t familiar with Friends until the seventh season aired on German TV , but I immediately fell in love with it.

In the final episodes the Friends all walk into different directions, Rachel and Ross get back together, Chandler and Monica move away from Manhattan, Phoebe and Mike get married. The only one left alone is Joey and we don’t know what is going to happen to him when the final curtain falls.

But now the pilot for Joey aired. Mr. Tribbiani has his own serial now. Joey moves to LA to work on his filming career. Of course there are new characters, his nephew Michael and his sister Gina and the lovely lawyer Alex. But its not Friends anymore, it feels a bit empty without all the perfectly drawn out characters I was used to and his new apartment is missing all the little details.

Joey is Joey, just like I know him, and I like the new characters, but I think I have to wait a few more episodes to tell if this is going to be a worthy spin off and if I can be "Friends" with Joey...