re: Why does "How I met.." get love, but "The Big Bang..." gets hate?

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BBT can be a one-trick pony, sure, but at least we haven't really seen the premise before. It's something new and there will be copycats going forward.

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6 twenty-something experiencing life, love, and work in their contemporary moment?

Never been done before?

The setting may be different, but BBT isn't some new premise unveiled in the 21st Century. It's a fairly simple sitcom set-up.