How I Met Your Mother - Season 8 - Review

By
Ethan Griffin
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How I Met Your Mother - Season 8

For a series that made its fans feel like they were a part of these five friends’ lives, this show has completely gone off track. If season eight were summed up in two words, they would simply be “dull" and "childish”.

Given that the show has a less mature vibe of Friends (since many could argue that it has taken numerous scenarios from it), this season was extra immature.

To begin with, Victoria’s back. Again. The last time Ted saw Victoria she had told him the reason he would most probably have difficulties with his relationships would always be Robin. Yet Robin was still in his life when she called him right before she was about to get married.

They stay together for a couple of episodes before they inevitably break up because of, you guessed it, Robin. Victoria put an ultimatum for him that he should choose between her and Robin (if you have seen Friends, you’ll know why this seems awfully familiar). Ted, of course, chooses Robin, because at the end of the day, she was one of his best friends.

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Moving on to the rest of scenes that are on the child-like side which include: the part with the game show to pick out a godfather/godmother for Lily and Marshal’s baby; the part where Barney and Quin have a huge fight over a ridiculous prenup that has over 1000 pages of even more ridiculous terms (only for them to realize that they just don’t trust each other and eventually break up); and last but not least Mickey Aldrin’s (Lily’s father played by Christopher Elliott) irritating lines that are overplayed and too exaggerated.

The rest of the season was in fact repetitive and lacked the continual feel we felt in the first seasons. This show (at least these final seasons) has the habit of building a great story and creating suspense only for the end to follow the climax in a heartbeat with no actual falling action. Think Victoria and Ted, Barney and Quin, Barney and Nora, and so on.

It's safe to say, this season had one of the best on-screen proposals ever seen on a sitcom. That last “play” from Barney to get Robin to marry him was truly wonderful and extremely well thought out. I think most of us needed a few tissues next to us watching that scene.

Yet it would have been even more wonderful if some of that creativity and intrigue had been weaved through other plotlines and other scenes. That being said, this season generally lacked imagination, completely went off track and had mundane storylines and script, a 4/10 would do it great justice.