At the end of last year, Monica's bad luck with men finally ended with her marriage to Chandler. After having lived together for a while, the couple is experiencing all the joy and angst that comes with married life. Monica has a real maternal, caretaking side (not that she would ever admit it) that makes her the center of the group, although being newly married will shift that dynamic a bit. As a professional chef, she has had to work hard to gain the respect of her co-workers.
Friends is a sitcom about a group of friends in the New York City borough of Manhattan that was originally broadcast from 1994 to 2004.
Rachel, Monica's former roommate, is still living with Joey until her and Phoebe's apartment is rebuilt following the fire. Still working at a rewarding job as a junior executive for Ralph Lauren, Rachel is soon to have a career upswing. Although her on-again, off-again relationship with Ross never seems to settle into a groove, she hasn't stopped looking for love in other places and will find herself in a new romantic entanglement.
Paleontologist Ross has had a hard time facing life since his wife Carol (Jane Sibbett) left him and announced that she is a lesbian. His life is further complicated by the fact that he is coparenting his son with his ex-wife and her lover. Intelligent, highly emotional and romantic, Ross has been unlucky in love--except for those times when he has been dating Rachel and the one time he married her. Still teaching at the university, Ross continues to navigate the halls of higher learning as he copes with the turmoil in the classroom and the faculty lounge.
Newly married Chandler is a wry observer of everyone's life--especially his own. Historically romantically dysfunctional and professionally unmotivated, he survives in a boring office job due to his sense of humor. Perhaps Chandler's greatest achievement has been embarking on a joyful and mature relationship with Monica--and saying yes when she popped the very question he had had trouble asking.
A sweet, flaky New Age waif, Phoebe served as surrogate mother for the triplets conceived by her brother and his wife. Back in her own renovated apartment, Phoebe continues to search for her own romantic contentment, but she still tends to see the good in everyone . . . which is a nice way of saying she can be kind of indiscriminate.
Unlike Chandler, Joey resists joining the corporate rat race, in order to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. (Actually, he wants to be Al Pacino.) To date, besides a short-lived stint as a melodramatic soap opera doctor, one of the few highlights of his professional career was being cast as Al Pacino's butt double. Unfortunately, he was fired from the role for bringing too much to the part. Handsome, sweet and macho, Joey loves women, sports, women, New York, women--and most of all, Joey loves Joey. After years of traipsing from audition to audition, Joey has finally landed a role back on "Days of Our Lives" as a woman. It's not exactly the part he had hoped for, but Joey does his best, hoping to move onto bigger and better sound stages.
