Christan

Artist Bio

Christan, graduated with a major in English Studies and English Language Education from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in MALCS. Christan has a passion for storytelling and creative expression. Her artistic journey is shaped by a deep love for movies, theatre, musical instruments, singing, situation comedy, graphic design, and travelling — mediums through which she engages with the world and reimagines it. She finds inspiration in the way narratives are constructed and experienced across different forms.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.: Ending Re-Imagined

Artwork Description

*I never wanted F.R.I.E.N.D.S. to end... so why should it?*

I don’t just love F.R.I.E.N.D.S., I’m obsessed. To a level that people think I’m a bit delusional when I tell them I see the six of them as my actual friends. To me, the show is like a safe haven, an accident-free fairy tale land where there are finally no ‘uncontrollables’.

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.: Ending Re-imagined is a salute to my favourite show. By reimagining the series finale through the concept of seriality, I’ve written an extensive episode mirroring the show’s original rhythm. It is a reflection on how we, as viewers, engage with media that becomes part of our identity. I’m interested in how serialized storytelling allows us to revisit, reshape, and re-experience emotions over and over again — how endings can become beginnings when we’re not ready to let go.

The original series finale of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. ends with Monica and Chandler moving to the suburbs for a more spacious home to raise their kids after adopting them, returning the purple apartment to the property management company. Chandler and Joey smash their iconic foosball table into pieces to save the baby chick and the duck. Rachel and Ross get back together seven seasons after their breakup. Phoebe marries Mike and lives a happy life.

The ending scene features the six friends leaving the apartment in tears, which can easily become an interpretation to many fans that these friends are going their separate ways, and that the relationship among these friends is never ever the same.

I never watch the finale without starting from season 2 or 3 again. It’s just hard to see them leaving the keys of Monica’s apartment on the table just like that. So I asked myself: why not write an extensive episode to ‘rekindle’ the friendship among them after Monica and Chandler’s move?

Through this artwork, I invite viewers to think critically about the emotional labor we invest in serialized media, and how that labor can be transformative, even healing. F.R.I.E.N.D.S. may have ended, but in my mind — and perhaps in yours — it never really had to.

So, I wrote one more episode.
Because ‘they’ll be there for me’, always.
And maybe, just maybe,
they’ll always be there for you too.