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I’d mentioned earlier that I was probably going to step back from writing up How I Met Your Mother every week, Hell or high water, unless I had a lot to say about a particular episode. “Unfinished” is probably a good place to start that practice, as it combined Glee’s weakness for literally restating its theme over and over (“Finished …
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Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up:
The character of Barney is a gift an a challenge for How I Met Your Mother. On the one hand, he’s hilarious, Neil Patrick Harris plays him brilliantly and he has largely put the show on the larger pop-cultural map. On the other hand, he’s sometimes a tough fit in a show …
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Spoilers for last night’s season premiere of How I Met Your Mother coming up:
When last we left HIMYM Watch, your humble narrator was close to giving up. For four seasons I’d adored the show, love the characters, the quick humor, the play, the nonlinear storytelling and the commitment to Ted’s quest for love. Last season, however, …
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News, and “news,” from CBS’s day at the Television Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles:
* Did you know that Les Moonves, president of CBS Corporation, is married to CBS personality Julie Chen? And did you know that, just coincidentally, Julie Chen happens to be the most talented person at the entire CBS network, and possibly …
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother’s season finale coming up:
We’ve reached the end of another season of How I Met Your Mother. How far have we come? Robin dated Barney, then dated Don, and is now single again. Barney is hooking up with as many people as possible. Ted is… well, Ted is blond. The people who have come closest to …
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No time for a full-on review of How I Met Your Mother‘s “The Wedding Bride” this morning, but I know some of you have thoughts, so here’s a post to discuss it (or any other Monday-night TV you care to). In short, I thought the intentionally broad movie clips (with Chris Kattan as a movie version of Ted) were amusing enough, but it seemed …
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As of this writing, the search string “how i met your mother ted douche” returns over 100,000 hits on Google. I’m not sure if I should be surprised that it doesn’t get fewer or more, but I have notice that descriptive and his name used together with increasing regularly on this and other TV sites. So to hear Ted say it to himself last …
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When you have a comedy involving five friends, two of whom are married, and the other three of whom have already hooked up and broken up, there’s not much you can do to introduce relationship tension within the group. In “Twin Beds,” HIMYM tried to do that, not by bringing Robin back together either with Ted or Barney but instead by …
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The premise of How I Met Your Mother focused on a central problem and pleasure of the show: the multiple layers of narration, all of varying degrees of trustworthiness. We know that Future Ted is telling this story to his kids and that he’s been known to change or embellish details. We know that he, in turn, is recounting the stories …
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There comes a point in any show about friendship where you have to ask: why are these people friends? Not how did they come to meet, but just why have they decided to bond together as a social unit?
Don’t get me wrong, I love How I Met Your Mother, but you could see how this insular set of five characters, seen in the right light, …
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother after the jump:
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Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
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Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
