The HBOMax
Friends reunion has us here in America feeling all kinds of ways, but in Ireland, it has landed in a way we did not see coming. Seems Matt LeBlanc’s wardrobe, posture, and just overall
thing remind Irish viewers of the middle-aged Irish Uncle, and as with all good cultural moments, it became a meme with the quickness. We don’t really have that character type in the States, and we hate things we don’t understand. So we’ve enlisted the help of Irish filmmaker John Butler– the man behind
Handsome Devil (one of
The Offenders– to contextualize it for us. And also, because it is Pride Month, we will