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HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER is a comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love. It all started when Ted's best friend, Marshall (Jason Segel), dropped the bombshell that he was going to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Lily (Alyson Hannigan), a kindergarten teacher. At that moment, Ted realized that he had better get a move on if he, too, hopes to find true love. Helping him in his quest is his friend Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), a confirmed bachelor with endless, sometimes outrageous opinions, a penchant for suits and a foolproof way to meet women. When Ted meets Robin (Cobie Smulders), he's sure it's love at first sight, but destiny has something else in store. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future. (official distributor synopsis)
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I take it back that this series is not my cup of coffee. It's awesome! Barney is a god, Robin is a god, Lilly and Marshall are gods, and I'll even put up with Ted eventually. And like others have written, this sitcom is more from life than any other. It's just that season 9 failed miserably... not to mention the finale.
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Seasons 1-3 – 100% – No matter what happened in my life, there was always that one group of friends who got me and everything seemed so much better. They were Friends and their decade-long journey with the viewers left a huge void in the hearts of those who like to find comfort in fictional friends. And that void disappeared after watching the second episode of HIMYM. It takes a while for the characters to get under your skin. Just like I used to want to visit Central Perk, now I feel a huge part of Ted in me, I want to hang out at McLaren's with Barney and make the craziest ideas come true, envy the amazing couple Marshmallow+Lillypad, and admire Robin as an unreachable beauty. Season 4-6 – 80% – It's as if the creators forgot how to dose the jokes and plot revelations. Everything seems to be in its place, genius episodes are given more sparingly, but never disappoint (Shelter Island, Girls vs. Suits), but sometimes it's clear that with high ratings, there's no need to rush, so the scripts just goof around, which doesn't work well during weaker moments. Fortunately, Neil Patrick Harris still reigns supreme, whereas Alyson Hannigan seems to have lost some of her best comedic timing after maternity leave. Season 7-8 – 75% – I would like to forgive the slow unveiling of an important detail throughout the season, because the best things are worth waiting for. But with the given ups and downs in quality, my condescending smile has turned quite bitter. The episodes that focus on old-fashioned situational humor increasingly seem like a struggle, and when a once heartfelt series offers episodes in which, despite the creators' obvious efforts, I have nothing to laugh about, it's actually somewhat heartbreaking. The relatively high rating is saved by the emotional touch from creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. Serious storylines or contemplation still work like a charm, and the sitcom label suddenly becomes too small to encompass all of HIMYM. Season 9 – 85% – At first, a completely dysfunctional concept, a deadly boring Marshall storyline, and trivial running jokes – and then a complete turnaround halfway through. When long-running storylines start to come to a close, nostalgia flourishes and every other scene contains a confession or wisdom, my eyes get teary and I'm back to six years ago, when I couldn't catch my breath over the tension of Ted's romantic escapades (especially in episodes like How Your Mother Met Me, Daisy, and Gary Blauman). The atmosphere clearly indicates that something big is ending, drowning out occasional visits from weaker jokes, and only makes you root for the beloved characters in anticipation of the long-awaited and dramatized happy ending. Last Forever – Unratable. But unfortunately, not in the way that the endings of my other beloved series have left me stunned. I understand the main creative duo's desire to make their work a more realistic spectacle and I also understand their "thinning out" of happy endings. But ending a sitcom on a serious note is no fun, and diluting everything that the last two seasons or in some cases all nine seasons were building up to is a stab in the back for all the viewers who root for happy endings. I could have dealt with that sad twist with a shocked expression on my face, but the biggest betrayal for me is the complete finale that erases everything the creators have been trying to show us about their relationship in recent years. This is not a reveal, it's simply a deliberate disappointment. Even two months after the premiere, and with several subsequent reruns, I can say this with a calm mind. My once favorite show is now leaving behind disappointment. It's not a definitive ending for everyone, nor a boring finish to a certainty. But this turmoil hurts broken fan hearts. Lowering the rating by one star has never hurt more.
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A sitcom that can be enjoyed by almost any generation. Above-standard entertainment, with especially the first three or four seasons being absolutely perfect. However, over time, starting around the sixth season, the series drops down to an average. It can’t avoid the common pitfalls facing any contemporary series, that is, attempts at character development, while excessively stretching out the plot. The negatives are, however, outweighed by the positive impression that these five best friends from Manhattan managed to leave on me. To borrow a catchphrase from Barney, I'd call those nine years during which not only the characters went through changes, but so did I, truly legendary.
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The overall functional sitcom humor is unfortunately spoiled by the characters. Such a unique collection of small-town folk in the peak of their age is something one rarely comes across and one can only speculate considering the well-known fact that people usually change for the worse, to what extent they have reached in their snobbery and bourgeois posing in their old age. After watching three episodes, I felt the urge to join the punks somewhere on a channel, but due to my age and parental position, I could not afford to do it. Therefore, I am done with this series. :-) Overall impression: 40%.
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Where Friends ended... ...in fact Friends continues, just with a different cast. And yeah, it’s pretty funny, but maybe even more cheap moralizing than before. And all the rest of the characters are well-written (and acted, in fact), the main character is quite the opposite. You want to kill him from the very first episode. Which harms the series as a whole, which is a shame.
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