***Spoiler alerts... if you haven't watched it yet and plan to, don't read this blog post ****
Ok... now that we've got THAT out of the way...
How I Met Your Mother.... or as I've renamed it, How I Met Your Step-Mother.
This show has been my #1 top favorite show since its very first episode (although I originally started out on Netflix to catch up) . Lets take a trip down memory lane to "How Kate Met Ted's Kids' Mother" back in Winter of 2008.
My ex loved this show...so I was hesitant to start watching it, because I hated him. With a passion. I had just lost my job, realized how toxic he was for me, packed my shit up and had my parents come get me one very chilly January day in 2008. Unfortunately, I was homeless as I had rented out my condo before moving in with him. So, at 26 years old I had quickly gone from an awesome paying job, living with my supposed future husband to single, unemployed, and living back at my parents house. How could things be worse I used to think to myself.
At any rate, I was able to find a bunch of little part time jobs and babysitting gigs to earn enough cash to at least make my car payments. In my spare time, which wasn't much, I started watching HIMYM on Netflix. I laughed so hard that my mother could hear me two floors under my bedroom and often times would come upstairs just to see "what was so funny".
Over the years, I always looked forward to catching up on my shows on the DVR especially this one because I knew no matter how crappy a day I was having, this show would ALWAYS make me laugh and forget my worries.
The last season of this show, I have to admit, I constantly felt was a major let down. I felt like the flash forwards they were doing to Lily and Marshall with their perfect boy and girl in Rome, and Ted and his wife rushing off to the hospital to have their perfect little one.... just felt like the producers weren't really capturing real life and making the show way too icky sweet.
While I was watching the last and final episode of my once favorite show I had the same feelings I've been having the entire season. I felt it was too icky, too perfect, too not real at all. Most of the show (since it was on DVR) was fast forwarded and at the end I literally screamed in anger and threw the remote.
However.... today, I think I may have had second thoughts of my opinions. Well, most of them...
People have babies and fall off the face of the earth to their friends
People get divorced and hate each other.
People die.
People get remarried.
People are successful.
People are failures.
People are people.
Maybe this last episode captured life in an hour without me even realizing it.
Kudos producers. Kudos.
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