OPINION: ‘How I Met Your Mother’ – Are we sure it isn’t ‘Friends’?

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There are multiple ways college students can spend their spring breaks. For some, it’s all about living up to their “life is a beach” attitude and hitting up Cabo, Mexico, Hawaii or any nearby beaches. For others, like myself, it is all about hibernation, rejuvenating after midterms and gearing up for those brain-stirring finals.

Same, Corinne. Same. (Courtesy of ABC / GIPHY)

So this spring, I decided to spend five out of my nine-day break watching the first season of one new TV show (which I haven’t already binged) a day.
At the end of each day, I will do a quick review-slash-recap (like this one) about my day and the show I’ve just watched.
Today’s show: How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014)
(Photo courtesy of FAN THE FIRE Magazine / Flickr)For those who haven’t seen it, the show revolved around a group of friends navigating through their late-20s in New York City. Sounds familiar doesn’t it?
How I Met Your Mother did not star Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Karen Green or Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani. But it did have Josh Radnor as Ted Mosby, who started the show off by telling his children (played by Lyndsy Fonseca and a pre-Wizards of Waverly Place David Henrie) in the year 2030 about how he met their mother — beginning in 2005.
Josh lived with his best friend Marshall (Jason Segel) and Marshall’s fiancé Lily (Alyson Hannigan) in NYC. Josh is basically in love with news reporter Robin (Cobie Smulders) throughout the entire first season, which during the finale episode — SPOILERS — they ended up together.
Oh, did I mention the show also starred Neil Patrick Harris as Barney “the playboy” Stinson?
I started my binging journey in the morning, thinking that How I Met Your Mother will live up to its hype. (It ...

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