How I Met Your Mother: Season Three
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Actor: Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders, Jason Segel, Josh Radnor, Neil Patrick HarrisBrand: HOW I MET YOUR MOTHE
Writer: Carter Bays
Writer: Craig Thomas
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 429 minutes
Published: 2008-10-01
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Box set; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
DVD Reviews of How I Met Your Mother: Season Three
DVD Review: A surprisingly enjoyable and delightful series
Summary: 4 Stars
Every winter during the holiday hiatus when there are no new episodes being broadcast of any of my shows, I always try to knock off two or three shows that I've not seen but have had some curiosity about. Now, I detest sitcoms. Hate, hate, hate! I loathe laugh tracks. I consider them toxic and vile and completely destructive. And in most cases I hate how stilted the sets are and how unimaginative the camera work is (no sitcom in the history of TV has had interesting camerawork, and I say that even though Karl Freund, one of the great geniuses in the history of cinematography, directed many episodes of I LOVE LUCY). I watch a lot of TV, but I avoid sitcoms like I avoid infectious diseases. I love comedy, mind you. I love 30 ROCK, PARTY DOWN, THE OFFICE, and MODERN FAMILY, all of them comedies and none of them sitcoms, and all among my favorite shows.
So why did I try HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER? Mainly it was because I'd seen a number of TV critics who stated that it was a good show despite being a sitcom. Part of it was Alyson Hannigan. BUFFY is my all time favorite show and if you love BUFFY you love Willow. Interestingly, I don't know a single person who watches the show (at least to my knowledge) and I pretty much decided to give it a shot despite the whole sitcom thing. Surprisingly, I liked it. A lot. Not as much as 30 ROCK and PARTY DOWN and THE OFFICE and definitely not MODERN FAMILY (which might be the best new comedy since ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT), but it was still quite good, with an enormously likable small group of characters. The laugh track is indeed irritating and, of course, completely unnecessary. And what is more, it isn't a pure sitcom. It does a surprising amount out-of-the-studio shooting (though on what anyone who is a serious fan of TV will recognize as the Warner Brothers urban lot, which has been used in hundreds of movies and TV series). The street shots are on the precise same sets that were used for Metropolis in THE ADVENTURES OF LOIS AND CLARK and New Haven in THE GILMORE GIRLS and the area around the Pie Hole in PUSHING DAISIES. Plus there are a surprising number of green screen shots. So the show avoids the static feel that most three camera sitcoms have. It isn't visually interesting, though it is less bland than, say, TWO AND A HALF MEN. There are all kinds of ways that the show breaks established rules in minor ways.
Despite the somewhat static visual dimension of the show and the nauseating laugh track, this is a pretty decent show and now that I'm caught up all the way through the first half of Season Five, I fully plan on continuing to watch in the future. The two things that make the show work for me are the cast and the writing, which despite the well traveled genre. I like that the cast consists of two unknowns (Josh Radnor and Cobie Smulders)at least at the start) to go with three well known actors (Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris, and Jason Segal). I love all five characters and they are all sensational individually but also tremendous as an ensemble. And the writers manage to keep their stories interesting and ever new by a string of fascinating developments. I am especially impressed by Neil Patrick Harris, who probably had his career set back by a decade by his Doogie Howser days. (Which reminds me that another reason I took up the show was because of how much I enjoyed Harris in the title role of DR. HORRIBLE.)
I'm still not a big fan of sitcoms and I doubt if I'll be adding many to my viewing roster in the future, but this is the big exception. I think the show would have been greatly improved if they had tweaked it only slightly. I know they have tied the show to stage sets to keep the budget down. And the format means that the lack of visual experimentation means short set ups and keeps costs down. The point is, I detest the genre, but I still like HIMYM. Which I think speaks volumes for the quality of the show.
Description of How I Met Your Mother: Season Three
"Friends" minus one. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future about the 5 friends and their dating misadventures.- Audio: English: 5.1 Dolby Surround
- Language: Dubbed: English / Subtitled: English, French & Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen: 1.78:1
- Wait For It
- We're Not From Here
- Little Boys
- The Third Wheel
- How I Met Everyone Else
- I'm Not That Guy
- Series Retrospective
- Awesome Honeymoon
- Love On The Loch
- Nessie vs. Lily
- Honeymoon Suite It Is
- Cast Favorites
- Behind the Scenes of We're Not From Here
- Additional Scenes: How It Really Happened
- Wait for It
- We?re Not From Here
- The Third Wheel
- Little Boys
- How I Met Everyone Else
- I?m Not That Guy
Disc 2: 147 Minutes
- Dowisetrepla
- Spoiler Alert
- Slapsgiving
- The Yips
- The Platinum Rule
- No Tomorrow
- Ten Sessions
- Audio Commentary on "The Platinum Rule" by show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, director Pam Fryman and editor Sue Federman
- Audio Commentary on "Ten Sessions" by show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and actors Josh Radnor and Sarah Chalke
- You Just Got Slapped Music Video
- Unrated Gag Reel
Disc 3: 147 Minutes
- The Bracket
- The Chain Of Screaming
- Sandcastles In The Sand
- The Goat
- Rebound Bro
- Everything Must Go
- **Miracles
- Audio Commentary on "The Bracket" by show co-creator Craig Thomas, cast member Neil Patrick Harris, and writer Joe Kelly
- Audio Commentary on "The Chain Of Screming" by writer Chris Harris, cast member Jason Segel and his driver Danny Bress
- Commentary on "Sandcastles In The Sand" by show co-creator Craig Thomas, cast member Cobie Smulders, director Pam Fryman and writer Kourtney Kang
- Audio Commentary on "Everything Must Go" by cast member Alyson Hannigan and consulting producer Jonathan Groff
- Audio Commentary on "Miracles" by show creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and director Pam Fryman
- Ted Mosby is a Jerk
- Robin Sparkles Sandcastles in the Sand Music Video
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