How I met your mother Sitcom Review/Critique
In this decade few
sitcoms remain memorable, witty, charming and relatable. “How I met your
mother” takes a classic plot line and reinvents it for the current generation.
The show is based around 5 professionals living in New York often patronizing
the same bar to discuss their lives, exchanging stories and giving each other
advice. The title stemming coming from a running underlying story of Ted Mosby
played by Theodore Evelyn is recapping his younger years with his friends to
his son and daughter illustrating the build-up to meeting their mother. In
Season 6 Episode 18 the plot had become relatively established Neil Patrick
Harris plays Barney Stinson a womanizing slick talking sociopath who by this
episode had met Nora and is caught in a battle between his old self and who he
potentially wants to be. Barney brings to this episode a certain comedic relief
as well as a few heartfelt moments. All the while Robin a female lead in the
group; played by Cobie Smulders an actress relatively earlier in her career, is
having issues of her own dealing with the woes of single life in New York finds
herself dating a younger man who goes by the name of Scooby and has a lot
canine like traits to the great enjoyment of the rest of the group. Scooby also
presents the group with marijuana which Ted edits to say sandwiches as he
recalls the story to his children. I thought this was humorous and relevant to
our current day and age. The episode has its’ ups and downs and can be thought
provoking as well, mindlessly entertaining and brutally honest at times a
combination when written well makes for a great series.
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