CHUCK
As the majority of CHUCK fans busy themselves with burning creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak in effigy following last night’s controversial episode that had Chuck and Sarah heading further down their respective relationship rabbit holes with Hannah and Shaw. We thought we’d take the opportunity to throw a few logs on the fire, but for a different reason entirely. Namely, Chuck versus the Budget Cuts. We’re just sayin’, there was absolutely nothing awesome about an episode that was entirely Jeff, Lester and well, Captain Awesome free. Particularly when the funny threesome were replaced with really bad Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy impersonation courtesy of our least favorite characters Ellie and Morgan.
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
Since CBS insists on ruining our post-Super Bowl party with the likes of SURVIVOR, CRIMINAL MINDS and Sunday’s super-underwhelming UNDERCOVER BOSS each and every time they get the chance. A fairly funny instalment of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER that introduced “duck or rabbit” into the lexicon, included a memorable callback to the ‘naked man,’ and featured one of the smartest Ted one-liners to date (”Don = Donald = Donald Duck”) — was slightly less so as we spent the better part of twenty-two minutes wondering just how many more faux post-Super Bowl episodes creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays will have to concoct before CBS finally gets the message. Fingers crossed three times is the charm.
Talk about false advertising! Titled “The Perfect Week,” last night’s instalment of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER was, well, imperfect and weak.
Watching Barney try to score with seven women in seven days stripped the character of any development he’d made during his relationship with Robin and only proved that breaking them up was one of the worst calls in the show’s history.
Sticking with the sports metaphors, as much as it pains us to say this, creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays really dropped the ball. Rather than borrow a page from the FRIENDS playbook that saw creators David Crane and Marta Kaufman brilliantly reinvigorate their fledgling series by unexpectedly bringing together Monica and Chandler, Thomas and Bays got cold feet and sent Barney and Robin to the showers. Cold ones at that.
While one might argue that these first look photos are a touch anticlimactic thanks to the prolific and popular @actuallynph, who already tweeted this photo earlier in the month. We’re fairly confident fans of Carrie Underwood will enjoy an official first look at the talented artist’s upcoming guest appearance on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, where she’ll play Tiffany, whose rejection of Ted’s advances spur the gang to reflect about relationships where each of them has been in the same situation. Another first look photo of which can be seen after the jump.
Before you suit up for tonight’s soon-to-be legendary 100th episode of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (trust us, we’ve seen it), why not take a trip to the mall down memory lane and reminisce with stars Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders, who were kind enough to take some time just prior to last week’s Paley Center panel to reminisce about their most memorable HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER moments from the show’s first (yes, you heard us CBS, ‘first’) 100 episodes.
1 sleepless night courtesy of pre-flight anxiety jitters. 2 hours of waiting in line to check my bag. 5 really awkward minutes getting getting searched a little-too-thoroughly by airport security. 6 hours of flying next to a ‘loud talker’. An evening spent at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills (Zip Code, actually 90210!) with the cast of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER celebrating 100 legendary episodes: Totally worth it! See for yourself after the jump.
On January 11, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER will usher in the new year decade with a very special 100th episode. Make that a legendary one. With Ted finding himself one step closer to meeting the future mother of his kids following an evening with Cindy (Special guest star Rachel Bilson) and Barney mulling the unthinkable (complete with over-the-top musical number!) when he debates giving up wearing suits in order to land a hot bartender Karina (Special guest star Stacy Keibler). More first look photos of which can be seen after the jump.
Having seen enough disappointing sequels over the course of our lifetime, the number ‘2′ in last night’s HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER episode title (”Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap”) should have been the tip off. But alas, this TV Addict was far too blinded by the impending awesomeness of the ’slap bet’ to see it coming. Unfortunately, not even the the return of the slap could save this turkey.
In his critique of Monday night’s HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, Time Magazine’s James Poniewozik took the writers to task for delivering a Barney-centric episode that has “decided to simply wipe out a major character arc [Barney and Robin's relationship] and grant itself a do-over.”
Our take: We’re okay with that.
For unlike many critics — who earlier today took to the internets to express their disdain for last night’s tour-de-force/Emmy winning performance by one Neil Patrick Harris that had Barney opening up his “playbook” by revealing the many scams, flim-flams and bamboozles that he has employs to lie, cheat, and steal his way into a women’s heart (for one night only) — we loved every minute of it.
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