HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

I was just looking back on some of my earlier posts, and realized all but one are good reviews. Well, this one is no exception! HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER was a surprise to me. In fact, I was so sure it would suck that I didn't even watch it until the middle of the first season when all my other shows were repeats. To my surprise, I fell in love with a show that appeared to be a cheap knockoff of one of my all time favorites, FRIENDS. Ok, so it is a bit of a knockoff, but what sets this show apart is the character Barney, played by Neil Patrick Harris. Barney is the type of friend you're embarrassed to be seen in public with, but couldn't do without. Narcissistic, greedy and obtuse are just a few of his personality traits, but he displays them all with some of the funniest lines I've ever heard.


Barney is my favorite character but his group of friends aren't too shabby either. The show centers around the character, Ted, who starts each episode by telling his children another story about when he was younger. So, what we end up seeing is in essence a flashback of his experiences before he met their mother. Ted lives with his best friends, Marshall and Lilly, who have just gotten married. Than there is their newest friend, Robin, who the audience was led to believe was the mother in HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. Of course it couldn't have been her becuase they met on the first episode and that would have ended the whole show. That leads me to how I believe the series will ultimately end.

In my version of the series finally, Ted and the woman he ultimately marries see each other across a crowded room, lock eyes and the picture fades to black. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER is only in its second season, so hopefully that episode won't air for another few years because I am thorougly enjoying the ride. An extra added bonus would be if Barney falls madly in love with the same woman and forsakes his own happiness for his best friend's. Until than, we will all get to watch Ted go through all the painful experiences that are inevitable before you find "the one."