How I Met Your Mother

The Flashbacks

The television series “How I Met Your Mother“ is a show taken place in New York City consisting of one main protagonist, Ted Mosby, along with characters like Robin, Marshall, Lily and Barney. The speaker throughout the entire series is Ted himself, a young architect living in New York City with his two college friends. His intentions to the audience are primarily to view and listen to his life scenarios dealing with love and the encounters he and his friends went through in the purpose of meeting his wife. The year 2030 is the time period taken place through the series, and every single moment talked about is actually a story being portrayed to his children of how he met their mother. Each episode emplifies a step closer into meeting who Ted’s wife is at the very end. The overall idea of “How I Met Your Mother” is to show how time and people develop and change over time. It emphasizes more on the concept that things happen for a reason, whether it’s to benefit you or to help you understand that some things aren’t meant to be. In addition to this, the show also helps the audience understand that not everything in life has answers to the things we want to know. The show demonstrates how every single one of us has to take cautious decisions and be ready for what life brings to us.

Each episode begins with Ted and his two kids, he telling them about his life before them. Flashbacks that he had with his friends that led up to meeting their mother. Afterall Ted was a “hopeless romantic looking for the wife of his dreams,” who had gone through a lot to get to his who his wife was now. He would explain in the flashbacks how the kids were brought to the world, the history of how Ted led to marrying their mother and having kids with her. Also the fun stories that led to telling them how his friendship with Marshall, Lily, Robin, and Barney were created. The audience can easily tell that the show will be trustworthy, because of how I've said before, the show is always initiated with Ted starting to tell a story about one of his days in the past to his kids. The author made the audience feel very comfortable, as if he set the show up to be if Ted were telling us the stories, which could also be interpreted as “bedtime stories for young adults”, it made it feel realistic. At least for me. When I would watch “How I Met Your Mother” I always felt as if it were Ted telling me the flashback of his, and he brought this good sense of humor and this good narration to make it more vividly representable.

As the overall show, the author wanted the audience to leave each episode with a gasp, a question of why things went how they did. It was an detailed explanation that Ted gave to his kids about his life before them. In every episode, it never failed to always experience a heart to heart moment between the characters on the show. Ted, for the majority of the beginning, had a big crush on Robin. This was after Ted and Robin kissed and he accidentally said, “I'm in love you,” which scared Robin off, for a couple episodes after that he obsessed trying to be with her until he finally decided to move on. And even though he did move on for a time he always went back to Robin at the end. His feelings for her never managed to leave, even