David Crane's and Marta Kauffman's sitcom "Friends" was constructed and pitched to be very low-concept. There were no strange dramatic conceits or an unusual premise that would take a long time to explain. It was simply a show about six friends (two of them siblings) who lived in neighboring apartments in New York City. The characters were all in their 20s, and spent the series navigating various jobs and relationships, finding they were forming an ersatz family in one another. The success of the show was going to contingent on the writing (of course) and on the charisma of the six leads. Luckily, the casting director on "Friends" was spot-on, finding six perfectly-matched, attractive white twentysomethings to inhabit the show's mythically inexpensive New York apartments.

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