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Part of me is inclined to look at last night’s episode as the Arcadian Hotel—blown up, history, time to move on. There have been some strong moments in the past season of How I Met Your Mother—Marshall’s father’s death and Barney’s discovery of his own dad—but the series as …
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Catchup from the few days I was out, prep work for the couple days I have ahead and general lack of enthusiasm for the episode itself keep me from writing at more length about last night’s How I Met Your Mother. Fortunately, Alan Sepinwall expresses many of my thoughts about both the episode and the larger Zoey story arc, which (spoiler …
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In the middle of closing something for TIME’s second special issue within a week (a wedding and a funeral! it’s like a Hugh Grant comedy up in here!) so no time for a lengthy review of last night’s How I Met Your Mother, though I don’t think “The Perfect Cocktail” would have borne one out anyway. It’s not unusual for an HIMYM episode to …
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To its credit, How I Met Your Mother has pushed its characters this season with some real and challenging developments: Barney’s finding his father, Marshall losing his, Marshall and Lily deciding to have a baby, then apparently deciding not to. But HIMYM has always felt a little …
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I’m in New Mexico for a couple of days: Santa Fe today to interview author George R. R. Martin about the adaptation of his novels into HBO’s Game of Thrones; tomorrow in Albuquerque for a set visit to the fourth season of Breaking Bad. So I was thwarted by the Mountain Time zone and missed last night’s live airing of How I Met Your …
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After Marshall’s father died, he returned home to Minnesota, as he described it, to help his mother out. As last night’s episode, “Desperation Day,” showed, there was much more to it than that: he was really going back home, in the end, to help himself out. His mother, …
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The moment that “Oh Honey” indicated it would focus on Zoey, I actually exclaimed aloud, “I do not give a crap* about Zoey!” (*Quotation bowdlerized for MSM-website standards.) So you probably have a sense of where I stand on the Zoey-Ted relationship. It’s not that I …
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When the last episode of How I Met Your Mother ended with Marshall getting the news of his father’s sudden death, I gave the show credit for, unlike many sitcoms, being willing to engage real emotions and not-so-funny passages in life. It’s one thing, though, to end a funny …
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A couple of things that distinguish How I Met Your Mother as a sitcom are its love of throwing in Easter eggs that reward attention, and its willingness to ground its comedy in serious, even dramatic, personal stories. “Bad News” showcased both traits, though not necessarily …
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Not a ton to say about a funny, if slight, Thanksgiving episode of How I Met Your Mother, but I couldn’t really let the presence of Jorge Garcia and the Lost homage pass without noting it for Tuned Inland. Obviously the mere presence of Garcia—in the role of someone bearing a curse—was the biggest reference, but we also got the …
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So from the moment I learned that “Glitter” would be a Robin Sparkles episode of HIMYM, I had to figure that it was going to be—as the hilarious first and the not-as-hilarious second one were designed to be—a one-joke episode. And it was. But it turned out to be not that …
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I’ve taken a break from the HIMYM Watch here, until the show started producing some episodes I had much to say about, which is to say episodes that began treating the characters again like real people with ongoing challenges and goals. But when I talk about How I Met Your Mother advancing …
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Not a lot to say about last night’s How I Met Your Mother, which again offered relatively little on the promised larger-storylines-development for this season. Still, I enjoy the show’s little love letters to New York City like “Subway Wars”; the fact that they so blatantly look like they’re shot on a set in California only adds to …
