TV Squad presents a list of 15 great New York TV shows.
I’m so happy to see that How I Met Your Mother is on that list, and that it won out over Friends. Even though it’s not filmed there, HIMYM just *gets* New York in a way that Friends never did. Friends would never come up with something like Dowisetrepla.
The apartments are still way too big for Manhattan, though.
A few years ago, I read an interview with a producer on some show set in New York (maybe FRIENDS) in which he was taken to task for this very thing, the size of apartments shown. His answer had to do with requiring sets large enough to accomadate the cast and also not feel cramped on television. Otherwise, they would be forced to address the crampedness every time the apartment set was used.
Whoever created HIMYM is borrowing, either consciously or subconsciously, from my favorite sitcom of all time: the British, orginal “Coupling.”
I love HIMYM but Coupling is the funniest show I think I’ve ever watched.
Eric – that show’s brilliant!
Jere – very true. Nobody would want to watch a show that took place in something the size of a refrigerator.
I love the BBC COUPLING too and have all four series on DVD. Anyone want to have a party? I promise not to break out into a monologue on LESBIAN SPANK INFERNO or call myself a bi-vegetarian.