How I Met Your Mother - Season 1
starring: Alyson Hannigan, Monique Edwards
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Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 04/01/2008Run time: 484 minutesRating: Nr
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If the end of Friends left a hole in your life, take a look at How I Met Your Mother. Quirky young urban folk grappling with life and love--check. Charming, good-looking actors who aren't afraid of looking like idiots for the sake of a good joke--check. Crisp, solid writing that sticks comfortably within the sitcom format, but is fresh enough to nudge the show into surprising and inventive moments--check. In fact, the creators of How I Met Your Mother should be embarrassed by how close they hew to the Friends formula--except that they do it so well. Let's face it, Friends didn't invent this territory (tales of twentysomething life), they just refined it. How I Met Your Mother quickly cultivates its own flavor: A little more openly romantic than most sitcoms, willing to let a scene take a quiet or off-kilter turn, trusting that not every viewer has to get every joke.
The hub of the likable cast is Josh Radnor, who keeps Ted (a single guy ready to settle down) from being annoying, despite his neuroses and perfectionism. Cobie Smulders gives Robin (the girl Ted thinks might be the one, but who doesn't want to settle down) enough goofy, tomboyish charm that she feels like a person and not an idealized love interest.Jason Segel (Freaks and Geeks) and Alyson Hannigan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, American Pie), plays Ted's soon-to-be-married best friends Marshall and Lily with enough lingering doubt in their engaged happiness to keep them from becoming too comfortable. And rounding out the cast is Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, M.D.), shedding his good-guy image as Barney, a crass, lecherous cad who, nonetheless, comes through for his friends. Episode plots are pretty straightforward (Ted signs up with matchmaking agency; Marshall takes a well-paying job he doesn't like; when Ted gets a girlfriend, Robin realizes she has feelings for him after all; and Lily has second thoughts about getting married), but the show maintains a nice balance of single-episodes stories and a season-long arc--and as you grown attached to the characters, even fairly routine stories are made to feel fresh. This is good comfort television:Smart but not snotty, earnest but not cloying, oddball without being forced or wacky. Check it out. --Bret Fetzer
Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 04/01/2008Run time: 484 minutesRating: Nr
Amazon.com:
If the end of Friends left a hole in your life, take a look at How I Met Your Mother. Quirky young urban folk grappling with life and love--check. Charming, good-looking actors who aren't afraid of looking like idiots for the sake of a good joke--check. Crisp, solid writing that sticks comfortably within the sitcom format, but is fresh enough to nudge the show into surprising and inventive moments--check. In fact, the creators of How I Met Your Mother should be embarrassed by how close they hew to the Friends formula--except that they do it so well. Let's face it, Friends didn't invent this territory (tales of twentysomething life), they just refined it. How I Met Your Mother quickly cultivates its own flavor: A little more openly romantic than most sitcoms, willing to let a scene take a quiet or off-kilter turn, trusting that not every viewer has to get every joke.
The hub of the likable cast is Josh Radnor, who keeps Ted (a single guy ready to settle down) from being annoying, despite his neuroses and perfectionism. Cobie Smulders gives Robin (the girl Ted thinks might be the one, but who doesn't want to settle down) enough goofy, tomboyish charm that she feels like a person and not an idealized love interest.Jason Segel (Freaks and Geeks) and Alyson Hannigan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, American Pie), plays Ted's soon-to-be-married best friends Marshall and Lily with enough lingering doubt in their engaged happiness to keep them from becoming too comfortable. And rounding out the cast is Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, M.D.), shedding his good-guy image as Barney, a crass, lecherous cad who, nonetheless, comes through for his friends. Episode plots are pretty straightforward (Ted signs up with matchmaking agency; Marshall takes a well-paying job he doesn't like; when Ted gets a girlfriend, Robin realizes she has feelings for him after all; and Lily has second thoughts about getting married), but the show maintains a nice balance of single-episodes stories and a season-long arc--and as you grown attached to the characters, even fairly routine stories are made to feel fresh. This is good comfort television:Smart but not snotty, earnest but not cloying, oddball without being forced or wacky. Check it out. --Bret Fetzer
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Customer Reviews
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Rating: 
- I love this show!
This show is great.I missed the first season, so it's been catching up.The first season is great.
There aren't a whole lot of extras -- for example on the first disc, there is commentary from the actors (all of the main characters) on two of the episodes, and one of those episodes also features the creators.They don't say much, but it's sort of fun to listen to the young actors enjoying each other and the early episodes of their show.
Rating: 
- A great new tv show
How I Met Your Mother is a different style of tv show. It's real and quirky and super funny! This show is worth your time. Get in at any point and you'll want to start from th beginning.
Rating: - some real fun here
This series is really a nice one except with the fact that Barney character reminds me of Jeff from Coupling.
Rating: - LOVE IT.
While the DVD package was not what I was expecting (unlike a "fold-out/open" DVD package, it is more like the typical box "slide-outs" that shows like Family Guy have and use).
Other than that, I LOVE this show, and it was worth every penny.
Rating: - It's Legend---hope your not lactose intolerant---Dairy
I love this show soo much... My boyfriend and I pop the dvd in and "tele-binge" whenever we have a long afternoon to do so.I love Neil Patrick Harris's character, Barney (Swarley, you'll see why I say that in Season 2), he's my fave!! I love how they flashback at stuff and the characters are in college again getting high and being stupid!! I highly recommend this show for anyone who needs a seriously funny show with a wonderful cast!!
- I love this show!This show is great.I missed the first season, so it's been catching up.The first season is great.
There aren't a whole lot of extras -- for example on the first disc, there is commentary from the actors (all of the main characters) on two of the episodes, and one of those episodes also features the creators.They don't say much, but it's sort of fun to listen to the young actors enjoying each other and the early episodes of their show.
- A great new tv showHow I Met Your Mother is a different style of tv show. It's real and quirky and super funny! This show is worth your time. Get in at any point and you'll want to start from th beginning.
- some real fun hereThis series is really a nice one except with the fact that Barney character reminds me of Jeff from Coupling.
- LOVE IT.While the DVD package was not what I was expecting (unlike a "fold-out/open" DVD package, it is more like the typical box "slide-outs" that shows like Family Guy have and use).
Other than that, I LOVE this show, and it was worth every penny.
- It's Legend---hope your not lactose intolerant---DairyI love this show soo much... My boyfriend and I pop the dvd in and "tele-binge" whenever we have a long afternoon to do so.I love Neil Patrick Harris's character, Barney (Swarley, you'll see why I say that in Season 2), he's my fave!! I love how they flashback at stuff and the characters are in college again getting high and being stupid!! I highly recommend this show for anyone who needs a seriously funny show with a wonderful cast!!
