Category: How I Met Your Mother
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Chitchat: Bays, Thomas and How I Met Your Mother are just trolling us, right?
I talk television with a lot of people. Friends, family, other critics on Twitter, vagrants on the street. I just love talking about TV. Because I don’t have the time and resources to do a podcast like I used to in college, I’m going to sort of replicate that experience in textual form in a…
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Guided by Moments: On Watching How I Met Your Mother in its Elder Years
How I Met Your Mother is one of those series that I watch every week, but never find time or inspiration to write about here on TV Surveillance. I don’t feel the frustration that some people do and I also don’t feel the overwhelming support and connection to the series. This is probably because I…
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Fall Television “Preview”: Four series with problems to solve
With September upon us, the fall television season is just around the corner. At random times over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting some preview-like pieces about what is to come over the next few months. Just like last year, I haven’t seen any of the season’s new series – no pilots or anything.…
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How I Met Your Mother, “Legendaddy”
Note: This post would have been up much earlier, had it not been for WP issues. My apologies. There’s something inherently problematic with Barney Stinson’s place within How I Met Your Mother. On one hand, he’s the series’ breakout character, primarily for the hilarious broadness at which he operates as a womanizer, friend and all-around…
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How I Met Your Mother, “Garbage Island”
Inspired by the sprawling, multi-armed conversation about the state of television criticism (see here, hereandhere, among other places), I’ve decided to take the next week or so to check in with the series that I watch every single week, but never actually write about. There’s been a lot of discussion about writing longer form pieces on series…
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2009-10 season wrap: How I Met Your Mother
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be summarizing my thoughts on many of the series that ended just as the “official” television season came to a close recently. Overview: Season four of How I Met Your Mother was extremely funny and just heartfelt enough from start to finish, really the series at its best. It…
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