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[quote=Anonymous]I do have anxiety and my spouse thinks ADHD, and I have definitely self soothed during stressful times by watching mindless TV. But I actually crave novelty and rarely rewatch anything.

I only sporadically saw HIMYM in later seasons, so watching the beginning is familiar in that I know the characters but the story is new.

And we have a lot of shows I could watch like that, like MASH, Cheers, the Office, Community — definitely have not seen most episodes but know the characters.

But HIMYM seems to stoke nostalgia for my 20s in a “mid life crisis” way. Sounds like a few others see that parallel as well.

And OMG, Ted and Lily are awful awful people. Watching it now, I think they intended Ted to be a jerk but like in a fake nice guy way, and in my 20s it kind of fooled me but now I see it was clearly intended. Lily is more subtle (she’s based on the creators wife) and I think they were trying to show how conflicted you could be at that age but I don’t know if they intended to make her the villain she turned out to be (sabotaging Ted’s GF, leaving Marshall and only returning when she failed at art, any other examples handy?)[/quote]

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