How I Met Your Mother

One awesome show you should definitely check is HIMYM. It's undoubtedly the hottest post-Friends sitcom to watch. It feels very topical, you can almost pinpoint an actual period through little commonalities like holidays, music, movies, celebrities... CBS is already airing its 4th season, so catch up soon! It's a mission possible, because one episode only takes 20 minutes.


The show's created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. HIMYM stars Josh Radnor, Jason Segel (Apatow movies), Alyson Hannigan (Buffy), Cobie Smulders and Neil Patrick Harris (Dougie Howser and the Harold & Kumar films).

In my opinion it's based on the blueprint of Friends though:
- It's situated in NY
- It's about friends hanging out in an appartment
- There's a womanizer, there's a married couple, a dream girl, etc.
- Hanging out in a bar (not at a coffee place, but there's a funny episode of it)
- Young educated, metropolitan people in their late twenties/early thirties
- About having relationships, which isn't a real argument, but -whatever- bear with me

So there are lot of things that seem familiar. BUT it has a whole other edge to it, it's told in flashback by... yes, America's favourite dad: Danny Tanner aka the alter ego of a much much more vulgar Bob Saget. It's a story told by an older version of the main character, Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), to his two children of how he met their mother.


The shows has a lot to offer, one of those things is that the makers keep you guessing of who the mother might be. Ted keeps having a lot of squeezes and girlfriends in his search of the One. But my guess -after 4 seasons- remains my first instinctive choice, even though there are no real foolproof evidences.



The theme song is Hey Beautiful by The Solids. An awesome music video compiled with clips from the first two seasons.

I strongly recommend HIMYM, it has become one of my all-time favourite shows. The sitcom actually uses cross media too, so be sure to discover that for yourself as well. Quickly check it out one way or another so you can get the inside jokes, enjoy Barney Stinson's (NPH) antics and his Bro Code quotations, and find out what the awesome quote "It's gonna be legend-... wait for it... and I hope you're not lactose intolerant because the second half of that word is DAIRY!" comes from!

It's on CBS and check your local listings for a broadcast. Now suit up!