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Does How I Met Your Mother’s finale ruin it for all time?
[Warning: Major spoilers for the complete run of How I Met Your Mother follow.]
How I Met Your Mother
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How I Met Your Mother: “Last Forever”
If you’ve come this far with How I Met Your Mother, I bet you consider these characters your friends. I certainly do.…
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How I Met Your Mother: “The End Of The Aisle”
Of all the supporting characters on this show, the one whose developmental arc means the most to me is Barney. I’m…
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How I Met Your Mother: “Gary Blauman”
Back when the three-days-in-Farhampton gimmick of this season was announced, one of the reasons I got excited was the…
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How I Met Your Mother: “Daisy”
With four half-hours of HIMYM remaining, it’s time to start paring down the season’s conflicts. This week is devoted to…
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How I Met Your Mother, “Vesuvius”
Storytelling has always served as the gimmick of HIMYM’s premise. “Kids, let me tell you …” the narrator begins, and…
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How I Met Your Mother: “Rally”
Do you think the HIMYM writers have a giant notebook—heck, a whole shelf of ‘em—filled with loose ends and character…
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How I Met Your Mother, “Sunrise”
I always knew that this last season of How I Met Your Mother would be an emotional gut-punch. Years of anticipation,…
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How I Met Your Mother: “How Your Mother Met Me”
Time flies when you’re connecting all the dots, doesn’t it? That felt like the fastest episode of this season, zipping…
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How I Met Your Mother, "Unpause"
When a show gets canceled in between seasons, fans tend to bemoan the fact that its creators didn’t get a chance to…
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How I Met Your Mother: “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment At Slapmarra”
The slap bet that began in the episode “Slap Bet” (aka “Robin Sparkles”) may be the most inspired overarching…
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How I Met Your Mother: "Bass Player Wanted"
We’ve had a good long run of weekly episodes in this last season of How I Met Your Mother. They haven’t all been gems,…
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How I Met Your Mother: "The Rehearsal Dinner"
The magician Teller has said that one of the secrets to fooling the audience is to “make the secret a lot more trouble…
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How I Met Your Mother: "Bedtime Stories"
Eight seasons in, with the episodes rapidly flying by on our way to the finale, we’d all be surprised if the creative…
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How I Met Your Mother: "Mom And Dad"
From the very beginning, How I Met Your Mother has been a sitcom where style shares top billing with characters and…
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How I Met Your Mother: “Platonish”
Last season I wrote about the biggest challenge HIMYM’s creative team had to overcome in bringing Barney and Robin…
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How I Met Your Mother: "No Questions Asked"
At the end of last week’s episode, Daphne forced the issue of Marshall’s secret judgeship by texting the news to Lily.…
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How I Met Your Mother: "Knight Vision"
Earlier this week on another site, in the comments of a review of the recent Carrie remake, someone finally asked a…
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How I Met Your Mother: "The Poker Game"
Weddings make such reliable sitcom fodder because at weddings, the minutiae of etiquette and custom collides head-on…