Is The Friends Experience at The Gateway worth the price of admission? Our TV critic, a longtime 'Friends' fan, takes the tour.
Shortly after I walked into The Friends Experience at The Gateway, I burst out laughing. Not in derision, but in delight.
When NBC aired the final episode in May 2004, I wrote: “What non-fans didn’t get was that these were more than just ‘Friends.’ This was a family. … A lot of us made ‘Friends’ a part of our family, too. And we’ll miss them.” And, you know what? Back in the day, I visited the “Friends” set on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, and I attended a couple of tapings — and, in person, the set didn’t look exactly like what we see on TV. No set does.
And make sure you check out the merchandise. One of my daughters accompanied me to the preview, and I pointed out several things that would be excellent Christmas presents for me — the coffee mug, the cookie jar, the baseball hat, etc. There’s also a pretty good chance my almost-1-year-old granddaughter will be getting a Hugsie stuffed penguin.The Friends Experience is located in The Gateway, at 16 N. Rio Grande, Salt Lake City.
I could’ve been more wrong, I suppose. After the initial appearance by the cast and producers before members of the Television Critics Association, one grumpy old TV critic loudly opined, “They’ll write out two of those characters by Christmas, and it still won’t work.”
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