8 Good TV Shows One Crippling Flaw Away From Being Awesome

5. How I Met Your Mother Is Far, Far Too Long For Its Own Premise

You see those two kids up there? Those are Ted Mosby's kids: they've been sitting on a couch for nine seasons, and though we have met the Mother (and she is absolutely wonderful), we did take kind of a super-duper-roundabout-going-in-circles way to get to her. The starry-eyed romantic in me fell in love with Ted Mosby's story right away: here's a good guy who believed in love so strongly and was willing to do anything and everything to attain it. Robin Scherbatsky will fit anyone's qualifications as their dream girl to a T, Marshall and Lily were a funny and incredible couple, and let's be honest €“ we all have that one friend who is like Barney Stinson. Seasons 1 and 2 were comedic gold with a heart, and season 3 was enjoyable. But then came Season 4 and the quality just went downhill. Once your show focuses on the 'Best Burger in New York' and you have the normally loveable Jason Segel wax poetic about onions and pickles, then you've run out of stuff to talk about. If you have never seen this show, go ahead and binge watch up to season 3, skip seasons 4-7 and go straight to season 8 and 9. Honestly, you will not miss anything. Maybe the fault doesn't lie with the creators alone but with the TV networks who continue to order season after season even if the show has reached its peak in popularity. HIMYM would have been more special if the teases and glimpses led to a shorter and more satisfying payoff than the one we have now. It's not bad, but it could have had such a greater impact.