How I Met Your Mother - A fun, fast paced T.V. series with sophisticated jokes timed and delivered brilliantly and intense drama. Originally, this show didn't really catch my eye. I saw trailers for it and heard people talking about it but nothing about ever really appealed to me. However, this obviously changed since it's now a T.V. Show of the Week. I was bored one day and thought screw the bad trailers and wierd plot lines I had heard, I'll just watch the show, and that's what I did. And I loved it. I now say the same thing to anyone who has doubts over watching this show, don't think about the railers or the feedback, just try watching it, because to me its a show that reaches everyone personally. To me, this is one of the best comedy sitcoms around, comparable with the likes of Friends and Scrubs as the show can have you laughing so hard you nearly pee yourself one minute and then the next crying so much your head hurts. There's a big online debate I've picked up on - 'is this show better or worse than friends?' or 'how well is it copying friends?' - but I avoid this. To me bith How I Met Your Mother and Friends are completely seperate shows; although there are similarities, each show has its own tone and its own atmosphere, with which there are clear distictions, especially due to Friends being 10 years older than How I Met Your Mother. The basic premise - old Ted telling his kids the story of how he met their mother - doesn't really grab me that much, its the writing and the characters that do. Each of the five main characters have a lot depth, which is explored brilliantly through out the show, especially concerning the relationships within the group, and the writing makes it so each epsiode has its own story as well as being part of an underlinig story arc, more so than many other shows today. Plus, thsi series stars Neil Patrick Harris and Barney, and who doesn't love Neil Patrick Harris, especially when he has his top off.
The best thing of this show is the sttorytelling, is really good, the way they use the time going back and forward is unique.
ReplyDeleteI'll give you that it is unique, and sometimes it really works, like with Ted's furture wife, her the yellow unmbrella and meeting at a wedding, but sometimes I think they use it too much and it doesn't work as well.
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