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How I Met Your Mother Ep. 9.22 “The End of the Aisle” raises hopes for the finale with a strong ending
HIMYM’s penultimate hour hits its stride in the final minutes, a promising sign heading into the final hour. More
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How I Met Your Mother, Ep. 9.20, “Daisy” delivers a happy ending with conviction
How I Met Your Mother Season 9, Episode 20 “Daisy” Written by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas Directed by Pamela Fryman Airs Monday nights at 8pm ET on CBS Much like the entirety of How I Met Your Mother‘s final season, “Daisy” gets off to a slow start, and an unfortunate one; save for a few […] More
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How I Met Your Mother, Ep. 9.19 “Vesuvius” interrupts a terrific episode with troubling allusions
Heading into the home stretch, HIMYM doesn’t appear to be done with the emotional twists – but should it be? More
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How I Met Your Mother Ep. 9.17 “Sunrise” nails one of the show’s most important moments
How I Met Your Mother Season 9, Episode 17 “Sunrise” Written by Carter Bays & Craig Thomas Directed by Pamela Fryman Airs Monday nights at 8pm ET on CBS Letting go is never easy. It doesn’t matter what it is: something as silly as a favorite pair of ratty shoes gone ratty, or something as […] More
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How I Met Your Mother Ep. 9.16 “How Your Mother Met Me” was well worth the wait
HIMYM’s 200th episode steps away from the group to focus on The Mother and her journey over the past eight years. More
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How I Met Your Mother, Ep. 9.13 “Unpause” delivers the season’s best episode
It took 13 episodes, but How I Met Your Mother’s final season finally finds its voice in a poignant episode about hope. More
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How I Met Your Mother Ep. 9.13 “Bass Player Wanted” is an unsatisfying mid-season finale
How I Met Your Mother says farewell to 2013 with an episode full of contrived dramas and unearned resolutions. More
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How I Met Your Mother Ep. 9.12 “The Rehearsal Dinner” tries to capture old magic, with mixed results
Has How I Met Your Mother lost its sense of wonder? Judging by “The Rehearsal Dinner”, the answer is yes and no. More
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How I Met Your Mother Ep. 9.11 “Bedtime Stories” transcends novelty, if only for a moment
I’ve always had mixed feelings about ‘novelty’ episodes like “Bedtime Stories”: while they often give late-season episodes a nice injection of wit and energy, by construction they require a show to conform to different rules, both for creative types and audiences watching the final product. More
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How I Met Your Mother Ep. 9.10 “Mom and Dad” is just pointless
With the Mother wish fulfillment journey on hold for the time being, How I Met Your Mother turned back to Farhampton for another round of unfunny hijinks, centered around Barney and James’s selfish competitions to get their mother to sleep with their birth fathers. If that doesn’t sound like fun, Ted’s in the background arguing with Billy Zabka over a photograph of Wayne Gretzky – another entertaining round of adventures so terrible, I couldn’t believe the script is actually credited to the series’ creators. Make no mistake: this is one of the worst episodes of the series, an episode that doesn’t take a single breath between bad jokes to actually find anything meaningful in its story. More
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How I Met Your Mother Ep. 9.09 “Platonish” continues to deliver the disappointment
In theory, “Platonish” is an episode about Ted dealing with his feelings for Robin – not only does the title give it away, but the numerous Ted voice overs and longing looks at Robin made it pretty clear early on they were planning to beat the dead Ted/Robin horse for twenty minutes. However, the episode quickly snaps its attention to Barney, focusing in on a disgusting night of woman-chasing to lead him to a completely contrived resolution introduced by a character – the Mother – we still don’t know yet. It’s a messy episode, rehashing old material and retconning pieces of the past, all for the sake of superficial drama that doesn’t matter, a relationship that feels more forced with every episode – and in the specific case of “Platonish”, an A-list cameo that unfortunately fails on every level. More
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How I Met Your Mother Ep. 9.08 “The Lighthouse” again chooses spectacle over substance
The best thing I can say about “The Lighthouse” is it’s not the worst episode of How I Met Your Mother in 2013. Unfortunately, that’s not saying much: it’s another episode of wasted potential that’s so busy checking off boxes on the narrative checklist it never stops to make any of the stories meaningful. Laden with convenient turns of emotion that culminate in a nice, but completely unearned conclusion, “The Lighthouse” is yet another episode of HIMYM unable to recognize its own potential. More
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