I've watched some of how I met your mother and there are def funny parts but Ted is one of the worst so far and his whole deal with Robin got a bit tired suuuuper early. I feel like his behavior would make more sense if they aged him down to like early 20s. I don't mind a flawed character figuring out life stuff but sitcoms have a bad habit of making characters grow and then dumbing them down/regressing them after a while to keep plots going. Full disclosure I haven't finished the show tho
they should have ended the show after, like, season 3. it started very strong. it became a parody of itself by midway through and then doubled down on a parody of a parody. jason segel's joke about it in this is the end says it all.
and a lot of it i can’t imagine has aged well either. some sexist bullshit in there too (namely from barney). it’s also a little messed up how there’s little to no poc in a show taking place in 2000s-10s NYC. at least with friends you could say that was the 90s
i mean that's the case for virtually every comedy of that era. have you watched scrubs lately? every other joke is calling someone gay or pointing out turk being black constantly.
In an alternate timeline, Greta Gerwig got stuck on How I Met Your Dad for 10 seasons and Josh Radnor became an academy award nominated director
I consider myself a massive fan of Jason Segel and I go out of my way to see most things he does (haven't gotten to Shrinking yet though) but I have weirdly never seen an episode of HIMYM and don't really have a strong urge to. I actually forget that he was on that show weirdly, and for such a long time too
He was definitely the best part about himym anyways Shrinking is incredible. Best Apple TV show I've watched so far. Preferred it over Ted Lasso tbh
You don't need to because that's exactly what went on with him. For one step forward, the writers would make him take two steps backwards and it kept happening right until the very last scene. Dude really had issues.
I've casually watched HIMYM during the course of its run more so as background noise but wasn't too heavily invested (not sure why I stuck with it) but seeing people post in the HIMYM thread back in the AP.net days in real time as the final episode aired and those who became so emotionally invested with the characters having a hard time with how bad the series culminated into its ending.
I was so angry lol. Still am tbh. The show definitely worsens with age (Barney Stinson is a truly despicable human being played for laughs), but back then we were mostly willing to overlook a lot of the negative aspects of the show because we were younger and less aware, edgelord humor was a lot more prevalent in the early 2000s, and the show introduced a fairly compelling mystery at the center of its premise, which felt different and refreshing for a sitcom at the time I guess. There are still a handful of the more emotional moments that resonate because of the music and occasional life lessons that hit hard, but that ending really shit the bed and it came on the heels of some truly awful, painful final seasons (with season nine’s self indulgent wedding weekend conceit really nailing that coffin shut).