Jennifer Aniston — AKA Rachel Green — doesn’t think Friends would work in today’s soft world, and the 54-year-old 1990s heartthrob is unfortunately right. …

“There’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of ‘Friends’ and find them offensive,” Aniston said in an interview with the international AFP news agency while promoting Murder Mystery 2.

“There were things that were never intentional and others…well, we should have thought it through, but I don’t think there was a sensitivity like there is now.”

[She’s probably right, but the punchline here is: ‘Friends’ was always a bit precious in its political correctness in the 1990s. ‘Seinfeld’ took actual risks, but ‘Friends’ mostly pandered to its target audience’s socio-political preferences. If even that soft soap is out of bounds in Hollywood these days, no wonder we’re getting remakes, retreads, and comic books. — Ed]