How I Met Your Mother: Season 7 Box Set (3 Discs)

I have seen critics of How I Met Your Mothers seventh season argue that it is beginning to rely too heavily on call-backs to previous 'stronger' seasons and that its, once clever, use of different viewpoints and timeframes are becoming a bit forced on occasions. If you focus on the weaker episodes of this series, such as 'The Burning Beekeeper' that lacked the kind of payoff we've come to expect, then they might have a point. For every episode that doesn't work however there are four or five that are close to being as good as anything the show has ever produced and, to be honest, I can't think of a single season of any comedy show that didn't have its weaker episodes anyway.

Ignore those people trying to tell you How I Met Your Mother has lost its way as after seven years, and more than 150 episodes, there are still very few sit-coms that are capable of being as funny and moving as How I Met Your Mother.

I have seen critics of How I Met Your Mothers seventh season argue that it is beginning to rely too heavily on call-backs to previous 'stronger' seasons and that its, once clever, use of different viewpoints and timeframes are becoming a bit forced on occasions. If you focus on the weaker episodes of this series, such as 'The Burning Beekeeper' that lacked the kind of payoff we've come to expect, then they might have a point. For every episode that doesn't work however there are four or five that are close to being as good as anything the show has ever produced and, to be honest, I can't think of a single season of any comedy show that didn't have its weaker episodes anyway.

Ignore those people trying to tell you How I Met Your Mother has lost its way as after seven years, and more than 150 episodes, there are still very few sit-coms that are capable of being as funny and moving as How I Met Your Mother.