As per demand by some. With Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris. A father recounts to his children, through a series of flashbacks, the journey he and his four. Do you like the How I Met Your Mother TV series Do you think it should have ended when it did Would you like to see a reunion somedayHow I Met Your Mother 1. And thats really noble. How I Met Your Mother Episode Scripts Springfield Springfield TV Show Episode Scripts. African Cats Full Movie In English on this page. SS is dedicated to The Simpsons and host to thousands of free TV show. How I Met Your Mother The popular and proper answer to this is no. Any TV show worth its salt understands that the age of endless Internet chatter about TV series overvalues endings in the grand scheme of things. The pleasureparticularly in a sitcomis all in the journey. And that should be more than true for How I Met Your Mother, a series that was all about how the journey turns you into the person who is ultimately worthy of love when the right person finally lands in your life. And yet the shows series finale is a strange beast, one that tries to serve all masters, both suggesting that life is not fair and has no happy endings and yet grafts a happy ending onto the end of that message, as if the series abruptly remembered it was a sitcom. Though the finale cant invalidate the pleasures of the shows runparticularly its first four years and substantial portions of seasons five through sevenit does create the impression that the series creators were telling a vastly different story from the one they seemed to be, and it provides the ending for a story that much of the audience wasnt aware it was even supposed to be watching. Does it ruin the show But itll make it play more strangely in syndicated reruns. The ultimate takeaway from the final season is that series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas were at once too good and not good enough to tell the story they ultimately wanted to tell. In the former category comes the fact that the pair are terrific at casting and can absolutely nail emotional moments, like when series protagonist Ted Mosby Josh Radnor meets Tracy Cristin Milioti, the woman he will marry, in the rain at a train platform. Both the introduction of Milioti to the series castwhich felt increasingly tiny with every passing seasonand the way the scenes between her and Radnor were written gave the show a vital shot of life. Similarly, Bays and Thomas, as well as their writing staff and series director Pamela Fryman, spent almost all of the final two seasons trying to convince the audience that playboy Barney Stinson Neil Patrick Harris and Teds former girlfriend Robin Cobie Smulders were right for each other, culminating in a lovely scene of naked emotion from Barney, in which he insists hes done lying and playing games. He wants Robin and only Robin. This is all well and good if the story the series is telling is that of the shows title. But its not. The story the series ultimately settled on was that of not just how Ted met Tracy and told his kids all about not just that but also several seemingly unconnected adventures but also how his kids told him to get out of his own head and start fucking Robin again after his wife had been dead for a socially acceptable period of time. And this isnt something Bays and Thomas pulled out of their ass to give a series that ran too long a happy ending One of the key scenes of the episode is Teds kids telling him to run off and pursue Robin, and that scene was filmed early in the shows run, when the actors were still young enough to believably portray teenagers. Teds endless attempts to rekindle his romance with Robin, say, or the creators unwillingness to introduce the Mother before the final season and then their reluctance to use her in this last run of episodes are re contextualized not as a series revisiting story material out of desperation, but as the show trying to prime the audience for an ending the creators did a terrible job of laying the groundwork for. How I Met Your Mother Season 10 Episode 1' title='How I Met Your Mother Season 10 Episode 1' />Bays and Thomas simply looked like shitty long term planners, unable to understand that getting the audience so invested in the Barney and Robin coupling or in Tracy as a character would make it all the harder when the series finale abruptly dissolved the former and treated the latters death as an aside in the narration. That the show never seemed to suggest Ted mourned her feels like a vital betrayal of his character. In some ways, its easy to sympathize with the way the creators tried to hold onto a speeding train and eventually got thrown off in others, it becomes all the more baffling that they didnt find a way to better foreshadow much of this or underline the way the show was apparently meant to be about how people will have many great loves in their lives, not just the one. Nerdlove calls Oneitis, the inability to see past a certain person to anyone else who might be an even better fit. Bays and Thomas try to save this with a climactic monologue about how important love is, but it fits in with the finales general sense of being a hodgepodge or scrapbook of moments, rather than having the courage to simply sit back and let the images and dialogue tell the story. Even stranger is the fact that the seasons overarching structuretaking place almost entirely on Barney and Robins wedding weekendcontained some of the most poignant and beautiful moments in the history of the show, poignant and beautiful moments that were summarily undone by the finales refusal to stick with what it had done. The rushed finale also makes the decision to set the finale over the compressed timeframe of just one weekend much more problematic, since the seasons early episodes devoted to mostly stupid bullshit like whether Robins or Barneys mom can make better eggs, or whom Ted will hook up with at the wedding pale in comparison to the heart wrenching stuff in the last few. To be sure, Bays and Thomas were working with an ungainly 2. But what might have played like a fun gimmick episode told in rhyme if the finale had been perfect or even just very good feels all the more like a waste now. Yet if the series finale has made much of the season preceding it play slightly worse in retrospect, its not enough to overwrite so much of what was one of the best comedies of its era, especially at the start. How I Met Your Mother often abbreviated to HIMYM is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005 to March 31, 2014. The series follows. Madam Secretary Recap 101815 Season 2 Episode 3 The Rusalka Madam Secretary Recap 112915 Season 2 Episode 9 Russian Roulette. Episode Recap How I Met Your Mother on TV. Watch How I Met Your Mother episodes, get episode information, recaps and more. How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted Josh Radnor and how he fell in love. It all starts when Teds best friend, Marshall Jason Segel, drops the bombshell. Its not enough to erase the slap bets and best burgers in New York and two minute dates of the shows run, nor is it enough to eliminate stories that came later in the shows run, like, say, Marshall losing his dad while Barney is finding his. There was so much beauty and so much wonder at both the passage of time and the seeming inevitability of the way those of us lucky enough to be blessed by love are able to find it that it would be impossible for even a far worse finale to invalidate the series entirely. Whats more, big swing series finales are often remembered more enthusiastically with the passage of timewith the already spoiled watching the show and the ability to consume it all over a few months rather than a decade. Its entirely possible Last Forever will join the last episodes of St. Elsewhere and The Sopranos among the company of divisive finales that eventually won many adherents. But think back to the wonderful ending of the shows pilot, to the moment when Teds kids realize the woman he met was their Aunt Robin, not their mother, and think about all that has been lost in the quest by Bays and Thomas to write themselves out of that moment, even when several viable alternatives presented themselves. The series finale of How I Met Your Mother insists that life happens to you, like it or not, that the bad things cant be swept away in a single moment. Its a pity that the men writing it tried so hard to stick to those guns once it became evident how far the show had trended away from their original plans. Series grade BCreated by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. Starring Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, Cristin Milioti. Aired Monday at 8 p. Eastern on CBS. Format Half hour multi camera sitcom. Entire series watched for review. Other season grades Season 1 A Season 2 ASeason 3 A Season 4 ASeason 5 BSeason 6 BSeason 7 BSeason 8 CSeason 9 C.