10 Awful Seasons That Killed Great TV Shows
5. How I Met Your Mother – Season 6
People sure didn't like the introduction of Zoey in How I Met Your Mother.
Other than unlikeable love interests, season six of HIMYM suffered from a big lack of comedy. The show experimented in featuring some harder hitting and emotional storylines but lost a lot of what made it great. Audiences found themselves becoming sad once jokes were replaced with motifs of loss and parenthood and the lighter moments weren't interesting or funny enough to lift up the mood.
Marshall's father dies of a heart attack which encourages Barney to seek out his own estranged Dad, Ted deals with discovering his girlfriend is married and Lily discovers that she's pregnant. There's no shortage of things going on here, it's just not written to the quality that HIMYM can be. Comedy TV has proved over the years that you can fuse emotion with hilarious one liners when the writing is great, but How I Met Your Mother fell massively from the mark and continued to disappoint as the show went on.