How I Met Your Mother - Season 1

Buy This Item How I Met Your Mother - Season 1 by 20th Century Fox  Available from Amazon  $27.99  on 8-10-2008     A love story in reverse: How I Met Your Mother is a fresh new comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love. When Ted's best friends Marshall (Jason Segel) and Lilly (Alyson Hannigan) decide to tie the knot it sparks the search for his own Miss Right. Helping him in his quest is his bar-hopping "wing-man" Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), a confirmed bachelor with plenty of wild schemes for picking up women. Ted's sites are set on the charming and independent Robin (Cobie Smulders), but destiny may have something different in mind. Told through a series of flashbacks, Ted recalls his single days, the highs and lows of dating and the search for true love. Reader Reviews "How I Met Your Mother" is a wonderfully heartwarming and humorous show rehashing the courtships and surroundings of a late 20s early 30s man named Ted Mosby as part of an overarching story arc of a future Ted Mosby recounting to his future children regarding how he met their mother. The stories are wonderfully shot, and brilliantly rounded by a diverse set of characters played by Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders, Jason Segel, Neil Patrick Harris, and Josh Radnor. The individual episodes are cleverly linked and tied together, with foreshadowing and callbacks ranging through complete seasons. The writing is punchy, and the humor is tailored to easily fit with each character, never feeling force. It's enjoyable, heartfelt, and intelligent. However, the transfer to DVD has one small problem and one really big problem in it, from my point of view. Small problem is the menu system does not allow for consecutive playing of the episodes without returning to the menu. I consider this feature a must for TV shows transferred to DVD. The biggest problem I have is that they changed much of the scoring and music selections within the shows. Instead of containing the songs and music from the broadcasts, they have been replaced by unknown and less evocative music. For example, in the episode "Drumroll Please" they replaced "You Don't Knom Me" by Michael Buble for this heartwrenching romantic scene with some neutral generic waltz music...detracting from the scene considerably. In the same episode, the final scene was originally done to Pavement's "Spit on a Stranger" which brought lovely color and climax to the finale of the episode, but on the DVD, it was another generic piece of music. I imagine these were cost saving measures to prevent paying royalties, but it lessens the greatness of the show...and the show really is great. For this transgression, I have penalized the DVD one star for taking a great show and not keeping it intact during the transfer to DVD.

How I Met Your Mother - Season 1 Available from Amazon Price: $27.99 Updated on 8-10-2008.

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