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[Warning: Major spoilers for the complete run of How I Met Your Mother follow.]
Reviews - How I Met Your Mother
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If you’ve come this far with How I Met Your Mother, I bet you consider these characters your friends. I certainly…
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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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Back when the three-days-in-Farhampton gimmick of this season was announced, one of the reasons I got excited was…
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With four half-hours of HIMYM remaining, it’s time to start paring down the season’s conflicts. This week is devoted…
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Storytelling has always served as the gimmick of HIMYM’s premise. “Kids, let me tell you …” the narrator begins, and…
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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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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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Time flies when you’re connecting all the dots, doesn’t it? That felt like the fastest episode of this season,…
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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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The slap bet that began in the episode “Slap Bet” (aka “Robin Sparkles”) may be the most inspired overarching…
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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…
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The magician Teller has said that one of the secrets to fooling the audience is to “make the secret a lot more…
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Eight seasons in, with the episodes rapidly flying by on our way to the finale, we’d all be surprised if the…
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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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Last season I wrote about the biggest challenge HIMYM’s creative team had to overcome in bringing Barney and Robin…
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I take it all back.
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At the end of last week’s episode, Daphne forced the issue of Marshall’s secret judgeship by texting the news to…
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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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Weddings make such reliable sitcom fodder because at weddings, the minutiae of etiquette and custom collides head-on…