I live with my girlfriend and for the most part, our taste in television overlaps. We like Dexter, we like Homeland, we’ve just started watching Justified.
We watch a lot of shows together, but we don’t always agree.
There’s often a tug-of-war for the remote and our television becomes the staging area for some sort of World War I style trench warfare, which I’m using as a clunky metaphor to segueway awkwardly into this info chart:
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I was a latecomer to the “How I Met Your Mother” party.
I was, am and will be sceptical of the average American sitcom, in general. As soon as I hear a laugh track, the show is instantly guilty under the “Offenses Against Intelligent Humour Act” and must prove itself innocent. This bias is probably down to the overwhelming amount of substandard crap that this format is known for.
For every Friends, Seinfeld or Frasier, there are a thousand Mikes and Mollies, Just Shoot Me’s or Shits My Dad Sayses.
But after six seasons of not watching HIMYM I had finally caught enough snippets and half episodes for my interest to be piqued. I sat down and watched seasons 5 and 6 in their entireties (not all in one go, I’m not that crazy) and was surprised at how tightly written and clever it was. Continue reading
