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[katzell]

How I Met Your Father - Review

Seasons 1 & 2

First, know that I was there in the beginning. I watched How I Met Your Mother starting in season 3 and watched it as it aired until the very bitter end. Everyone has a show that disappointed them and let them down. But I honestly think that nothing compares to the horror of the last episode of HIMYM, because it made everything that came before it worse. Mayyybbee some LOST fans get it. But at least that finale wasn’t a character assassination in the name of one last smug trick. It was a rumination on love and humanity that allowed the characters a moment of grace in a world that denied it. HIMYM’s trashed seasons of character work for Barney and Robin and its own success in actually finding someone to play the Mother who was worth 11 seasons of waiting. But sure, wasn’t it clever they had footage of the kids before they grew too big saying the story was always about Ted loving Robin. Of course nothing that was filmed after season 3 really mattered.

I’m sorry to begin this way, but as Robin Scherbatsky and Barney Stinson appear in HIMYF, clearly in the between times, post divorce but before the titular mother’s horrible death, we have to talk about it.

I hadn’t meant to watch this show. Poor Chris Lowell will forever be Piz. The Veronica Mars trauma is another thing all together and others have written about that better. But as a lifelong Hilary Duff fan, I was curious to see her do a traditional adult sitcom.

In 2021, the pilot didn’t convince me. I agreed with reviews that said none of the characters acted or spoke like millennials. The side stepping of covid felt weird as well. Where HIMYM had a really eerie knack of conjuring NYC from LA, the reboot felt more soundstagey. I chalked it off as another mercenary move to mine IP and play on nostalgia.

But I guess this is why we live on Tumblr! Because the right gifset on your dash at the right time can make you reassess. And the right persons face can make you pause and go, I guess this is happening now.

In 2023, watching a comedy that was in fact pure shenanigans suddenly felt like a gift. As everyone reassess the changes in the US television industry, I hope distributors see the value in greenlighting shows like this again. I love my prestige comedies that want to incite anxiety attacks. But I also love seeing friends living in a city run around having madcap adventures. And I love a show that unabashedly wants me to ship characters and care about romance! Particularly the slow kind that works off dozens of episodes to establish.

And luckily for me, HIMYF has the very dreamy Sid, played by Suraj Sharma. I mean, who doesn’t at some point fantasize about a hot bar owner smart enough to go to [insert highly demanding profession here] but chose instead a cozy place where all their friends can hang. (See also New Girl). I need at least 3 more seasons, 20 episodes each, because I’m invested in the potential between he and Hillary Duff’s Sophie. Its nascent and yet so much more intriguing than Sophie’s other more obvious, but boring options. (Apologies to Chris Lowell’s Piz Jessie). Sophie and Sid have the easy charm to power a friends to lovers for the ages. And with his marriage on the rocks, and her dating his best friend, the melodrama is there too! The stupid concite of the show has its hooks in me again and I am definitely scared. You would be too if you saw the pathos and rawness Cobie Smuthers brings to her cameo. I’ve been kicked in the teeth before by this world. Neither of us are over it.

Fine, a brief word on Barney’s cameo. Awful. He talked about how he learned to respect women thanks to a special girl in his life. It was his fucking daughter and not Robin. I knew this and it still hurts. The electroshock pants weren’t funny. But I did like that he wouldn’t charge a nice girl for smashing his car if she had a fun enough story. That was the character I liked.

[regalpotato]

I’m on Season 4 of Desperate Housewives and I’m losing my mind

[icouldbeaduck]

crime show mothers raise crime show daughters i don’t make the rules

[turochamp]

when i was like 8 years old i had a rule that i wouldnt watch music videos bc i prefered to imagine my own animated cat music videos. on one hand it really made me more creative. on the other hand i had no clue what a music video would look like so it was pretty much always Eevee Party 2 reskinned with my own characters

[panicbroadcast]

always thought of myself someone who was good at identifying propaganda

that has been proven wrong after watching katie marovitch talk about eggs for 10 minutes on smartypants. then proceeding to stop everything to go boil and eat 2 eggs

( ._. )

[niccage]

Can’t stop watching this gif

[fuckyeahalfredmolina]

As promised, Bram & Alice 9 episodes on YouTube! Click here to access the full playlist.

[dbphantom]

me every day

[remythologise]

people say nobody does queerbaiting like they used to but I do think 911 releasing an episode called ‘Buck Bothered and Bewildered’ about Buck being jealous Eddie is close with someone else is certainly something. Easiest answer usually the correct one that nobody did more than (1) second of thinking about the title implications. Still. Kudos where it’s due to the only show still continuing a grand tradition

[perplexingluciddreams]

Time to watch the rest of Supergirl (I am at S5 E2 right now, so this season and one more left).

Then after that I think I might do a full Buffy rewatch! (At some point).

But I also have a new fixation on the actress Zoe Boyle (plays Grace Emberly in Frontier, which I just rewatched), so I want to watch as many things she is in as possible...

This is a way I end up watching most things, actually! I get a fixation (or sometimes due to a long-term special interest, like how Katie McGrath - AKA Morgana in Merlin - is the reason I watched Frontier to begin with), and I binge watch many things that actor/actress is in! I get exposed to a lot more media through this.

Then I may get a new fixation (short-term OR long-term), and through that stream of linking interests I watch many more things and can enjoy much more media! Leaning into the way my brain fixates on things and has metaphorical "tunnel vision" in terms of awareness and interests, is the way that leads to the most of enjoyment of things, for me!

Occasionally, like this time, I will do a rewatch of something that I originally watched for a fixation, and my narrow attention becomes pointed elsewhere... which then leads to this cycle starting all over again.

My new interest in Zoe Boyle (who does a rather good fake Scottish accent, by the way! Not perfect, I can still tell as a Scottish person that she is not really Scottish, but it is very impressive! One of the best fake Scottish accents I have ever heard on TV), has made me take a renewed interest in watching Downton Abbey. I tried to start it a while ago, but didn't have a "point of attention" to keep me watching and focused. Now, I think I might be able to use my own brain's processes to my advantage, and try again!

I have a list in my notes app of TV programmes/films, in three categories; want to watch, want to rewatch, need to finally actually finish/give it another chance. It is getting SO long... 😅

[mariocki]

Katy Manning, in her second screen role (see her first here), as Julia Dungarvon - full-time typist, part-time coffee shop waitress, and member of more than one love triangle - in Man at the Top: The Prime of Life (1.4, Thames, 1971)

[bitchapalooza]

Larry always tuns into Iono's streams but its only because its so loud and bright it keeps him up enough to get work done that he should've gotten done weeks ago

[fruitybuck]

it’s actually insane the way they brush over inej’s trauma… like when that creep in ep2 pins her down during their fight that must have been so triggering, why aren’t they addressing her trauma too

[robertsbarbie]

new ruby actress…. wahoo i guess

[inafieldofdaisies]

Walker: Independence (2022) | Season 1, Episode 8 “The Death of Mary Collins” | Favorite scenes

/ Not Hoyt yet again swiping Abby's ring... Matt Barr is serving impeccable humor in every scene and I'm living for it.

[jovenshires]

ik its just quiet bc ians mic'ed and its live but jesus christ the lack of laughs is awful