100 TV Shows: How I met your Mother - these poor kids...
In the year 2030 Ted Mosby sits down to tell his children the tale of how he met their mother - which turns out to be a pretty long story involving lots of awesome, ridiculous and funny adventures from Ted and his friends Marshall - an environmental laywer that beliefs in Nessie and the Sasquatch - Lilly - a kindergarten teacher and painter with a very evil mastermind - Robin - a newsanchor from Canada with a love for guns and cigars - and Barney - who only wears suits and thinks of himself as god´s gift to women.
Yep, "How I met you mother" is definitly one of these shows that has me thinking about "FRIENDS" at least once every episode and not just because it´s also set in NY.
But the thing I love most about "HIMYM" is the one thing that is totally different from "FRIENDS" - the way the story is told. I´ve always had a soft spot for unreliable narrators and "HIMYM" uses that perfectly (so well actually that I refered to it in class once when a girl just didn´t get what an "unreliable narrator" is). I love that everything is one big story - and then we get stories in stories. My fav parts are when Ted says things like "Now I wasn´t there, but I imagine it went something like this..." or "Marshall swears that is what happened..." or "That´s Barney´s version...". And lets not forget all the times when he mixes up stories or interrupts himself with "Oh wait, that was an entirely different birthday..." I just love that nothing is actually real in this show (and yes, I know that its a TV show...) and that the creators embrace that and create such wonderfully absurd stories.
I also love all those little mysteries, at the forefront of course the question of who the mother is going to be - it´s a lot of fun to check discussion boards where people talk about clues.
And I´m pretty sure that even if Ted meets the mother next season the shows not gonna end...I mean, have you seen his track record? But yeah, time is getting kinda short...