Disclaimer: the content you are about to read is not quite a recap, but rather an emotional rant about season nine so far and all the disappointment and frustration it brings.
This week’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother” was a step up from last week’s, but that’s not saying very much.
Awesome: As usual, most of the episode was really funny.
• There’s a documentary entitled “True and Real Ghost Stories of the Supernatural”.
• Barney arranged for doves to be flying overhead as they leave the wedding.
We’re down to 48 hours until the wedding. It’s game time: time to start worrying about last minute details, time for Robin and Barney to get nervous or (more likely) time for Lily and Ted to totally freak out and time for Marshall to get home, right?
51 hours left until the wedding! Part of me has trouble believing that in the four episodes thus far in the season, we have only covered five hours of the characters’ lives.
Absolute decay is both physical and moral. Taking us through each remaining character's rapid disintegration, “Granite State” emphasized this above all else.
Don is nice? Maggie's life gets even worse, Jim finds new blonde hair to pine for and Occupy Wall Street starts to look like a thing. Oh—and Will makes drone strikes all about his problems.
A wisp of feminism re-enters the scene, as "Mad Men's" women contend with the shadows of their accomplishments. And, ketchup is still confused with catsup.
This week, "Mad Men" turned from its tone of death and despair back to one of adulterous mishaps and discontent, yet still subtly reminded us of the past.
For a show so wittily chatty, this episode decides to explore moments when a thought is best expressed by saying nothing. This week was all about awkward silences, glances and wordless vocal noises.