This week’s episode of How I Met Your Mother, Subway Wars, provided a refresher course in just why I love this show. Here’s the play by play: * The way the characters’ relationships to each other are so subtly enforced, even in episode’s not explicitly about them (my evidence: the fact that every time Robin’s […]
And what does Mr. Romantic deserve as the perfect accompaniment to his grand gesture of the week (in some wonderfully timed, self-referential scenes)? A little Love Actually of course. In this week’s romantic comedy-skewering yet still knowingly cheesy How I Met Your Mother, Ted Mosby got the perfect backup: the beautiful (and easily identifiable) score […]
It’s not often that How I Met Your Mother impresses with it’s dramatic performances. Typically, it’s the comic chops of the actors that stand out and add to the overall entertainment of the show. In this weeks “Of Course” Colbie Smulders went above and beyond her usually captivating (and often underrated) performance by adding some […]
This week I got the opportunity to participate in a conference call with Craig Thomas and Carter Bays, the creators and executive producers of one of my favourite shows on television, How I Met Your Mother. This coming Monday is the 100th episode of the series so Craig and Carter took some time to speak […]
So as Kelly already mentioned, the whole smoking episode of How I Met Your Mother was a little odd. I sincerely believe that a few of the main characters would smoke and that in most people’s lives cigarettes became an occasional habit, but it was all a little too unbelievable for the entire group to […]
– How I Met Your Mother this week: do the showrunners not know that their characters can’t afford the negative connotation smoking brings? The only character who survived this week without me losing a bit of love for them was Robin (who, let’s face it, always seemed like a bit of a smoker anyway). – […]
Week after week the show I look most forward to seeing is How I Met Your Mother on Monday nights. It’s consistently packed with great writing, great performances and great stories with wonderful little surprises at every turn. This week, those little delights came in the form of two of my favourite television actors: Jamie […]
I never really knew quite where I stood with the Barney and Robin relationship on How I Met Your Mother but I finally found out this past week. Barney is legend—what for it….I hope you’re not lactose intolerant cause the next word is—dairy. But seriously, he’s one of the main reasons for the awesomeness […]