Geek Overture

Never mind. One week after the best HIMYM episodes in years we’re back to one of the most hateful, lazy, inattentive half hours of television I’ve ever seen these guys have to perform. The disappointment with the material is almost palpable. The show kicks off with a quick recap of the last couple episodes, as if [...]

Oh hello How I Met Your Mother. Where have you been hanging out this past while? I mean we were worried you know? What with Kal Penn and playing Robin-relationship-tennis and forgetting… who you were. Y’know? Anyway, good to have you back. Episode 17 of HIMYM‘s seventh season kicks off with Ted and Robin on [...]

Any show that’s been around as long as How I Met Your Mother is bound to cover the same sort of ground a couple of times. Less excusable when you start using the same jokes again. Barney claims to have Enormous Penis Syndrome, which you’ll remember from the episode called The Playbook, where it appeared in [...]

Teevee’s a funny place. The question of How I Met Your Mother is still famously unresolved and going nowhere fast. The quality of the episodes is consistently lower than ever and the guest actors more of an intrusive nuisance – remember when Bryan Cranston was involved on a regular basis? And yet HIMYM is drawing in better weekly [...]

While we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK, there’s no denying how important it is in America. Usually, the week before we get a TV show’s Christmas special, we get the Thanksgiving special to get us in the festive mood. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, meaning this year’s holiday falls on [...]

With the 5th episode of  How I Met Your Mother – Season 7 airing tonight in the US, we’ve already watched 140 episodes of the show and we still don’t seem to be any closer to discovering the identity of the mother.