{"id":828677,"date":"2026-08-28T13:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828677\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:16:13","slug":"people-are-itching-to-create-the-gen-z-version-of-friends-here-are-five-reasons-its-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828677\/","title":{"rendered":"People are itching to create the Gen Z version of Friends. Here are five reasons it&#8217;s impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">There&#8217;s been Mindy Kaling&#8217;s Not Suitable For Work, about five recent graduates in Manhattan, while the second season of FX&#8217;s chaotic but cosy Adults premieres today, centring on a house-share of another quintet across the water in Queens. Beyond the Big Apple, other shows following a similar Friends-style template have included Kaling&#8217;s show The Sex Lives of College Girls about four college friends in Vermont, and HBO&#8217;s irreverent I Love LA: internet &#8220;It Girl&#8221; Rachel Sennott&#8217;s show about West Coast wannabe influencers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s been Mindy Kaling&#8217;s Not Suitable For Work, about five recent graduates in Manhattan, while the second season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-828677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}