UPDATE: Netflix dropped all ten seasons onto UK Netflix right after midnight, to help bring in 2018 the right way. Happy binge watching!
We'll be there for you. All episodes of #Friends, now streaming. pic.twitter.com/utAoC0oE4y
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) January 1, 2018
Put those New Year's resolutions to the side and accept the truth: after this revelation, you probably won't be leaving the couch for most of 2018.
Netflix has dropped a bombshell piece of news: Friends is coming to UK and Ireland Netflix. Sound the alarms. The streaming service's official Twitter account let fans in on the party with a simple, not-too-cryptic tweet: "The One with the Show Everyone's Been Asking Us to Add".
Of course, it's all a reference as to how the show's episodes were so famously titled, for example, "The One With Unagi", "The One With Joey's New Brain", or "The One Where Ross Got High". Friends has been available on Netflix since 2014 in the US and Canada, after the company struck a deal with Warner Bros. to bring all 236 episodes of the hit show to its TV on-demand service.
However, there was no further elaboration as to when exactly Friends might be hitting UK Netflix, or whether it's the same deal and all ten seasons will be included, with the show having originally run from 1994 to 2004.
Neither should this be taken as any indication something's in the works for the future: rumours of a reunion have been consistently shot down, with Jennifer Aniston even appearing on Saturday Night Live to politely ask fans to "move on".
The One with the Show Everyone's Been Asking Us to Add.
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) December 30, 2017
She'd even previously dodged those questions with a pretty clever answer: revealing how a reboot is pretty much impossible in today's Facebook/ Instagram age. At least in 2018, we'll be able to relish the nostalgia in full.
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