Tag: TV

The One Without Smartphones: Why The TV Show “Friends” is the New Church

The One Without Smartphones: Why The TV Show “Friends” is the New Church

My Wake Tech Community College students are obsessed with Friends. Not their real-life buddies, but the sitcom, whose 236 episodes dominated American TV from 1994 to 2004. Though Friends displays the kind of homogeneity younger millennials and Generation Z rail against—it’s an all-white, heterosexual, middle-class, 

Throwback Lent: Why You Should “Blow Up Your TV”

  TV is exhausting. Fred and I don’t have what my uncle refers to as “the idiot box,” so navigating our throwback, tech-free Lenten discipline never included the elimination of the tube. Besides, cable was alive and well in the 90s, and unfortunately, is still