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5 Iconic TV Friendships We Will Always Love
From ‘A Different World’ to ‘I May Destroy You,’ we share the on-screen bonds that show the beauty of how our chosen family shapes and holds us
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In a year where we’re fervently searching for joy, Netflix’s Strong Black Lead is supplying us with a heavy dose of it in a lineup of classic Black sitcoms set to stream on the platform. Today, Girlfriends will be available on Netflix, and we are hype. We’ll be reunited with Toni Childs, Joan Clayton, Maya Wilkes, and Lynn Searcy, four dynamic women traversing the complexity and fullness of Black sisterhood. The quartet gives us an on-screen bond that illustrates the beauty of how our chosen family shapes and holds us. As we prepare for our Girlfriends binge (and like many of y’all, reassess all of Joan’s relationships), we’re also reflecting on some of our other favorite TV friendships from the past 35 years.
Arabella and Terry (‘I May Destroy You’)
Throughout triumph and trauma, the childhood friends have a deep connection of tenderness and forgiveness. “Your birth is my birth, your death is my death,” a line…
