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Aug 22, 2020 · Many called into question why the show was even called How I Met Your Mother if it ended with her being dead and Ted going back to Robin. Some fans felt robbed, expressing irritation...
Apr 1, 2014 · Last night, on the divisive series finale of How I Met Your Mother, after nine seasons and 200-plus episodes, Ted finally met the mother. And he also re-met Robin. Vulture was able to...
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- How I Met Your Mother's Finale Breaks The Group - Because It Had to
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The first half of How I Met Your Mother's two-part, bumper-length finale offers up a classic sitcom trope: saying goodbye to the primary set. From Friends to The IT Crowd, this has always been a popular way to underscore the episodic events of previous seasons and allow characters to reminisce about good times long gone. Except for How I Met Your M...
At the core of the group's breakdown is Robin and Barney's divorce: three into their marriage, Robin's hectic work schedule puts a strain and, after a drunken night in Argentina, they decide to break up. Splitting the pair up is necessary for the prerecorded ending's Robin twist (they were only brought together due to Neil Patrick Harris' and Cobie...
And so we get to the heart of the How I Met Your Mother ending: Ted actually meeting Tracy. This was the moment that had been teased since the very first episode, and taken in pure isolation delivers better than anybody could have imagined. A lot of legwork has been done through season 9 thanks to the showstopping casting of Cristin Miliotias the p...
So much of what the How I Met Your Mother finale was going for was established seven episodes earlier in unconventional 200th episode "How My Mother Met Me". A reversal of the show that revealed the mother's life from the night Marshall proposed to Lily up to Barney and Robin's wedding by way of her and Ted's various near misses throughout the seri...
How I Met Your Mother's premise is fundamentally broken when a show framed as a story from a father to his kids has a 76 hour total runtime. The show called this out multiple times in a light fourth-wall-breaking way, never taking the faux-criticism too seriously. And yet the finale is ultimately an answer to this: why did the story take so long? T...
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Sep 19, 2005 · The HIMYM ending left a lot of fans wildly disappointed, as we were left with the knowledge that the central theme of the show — “how I met your mother” — was a giant misdirect.
Mar 31, 2014 · The way Ted ended up with Robin—the ending set up, clearly, years ago—was far more interesting and romantic than anything the show could have told us about the mother in 45 minutes or less.
Sep 19, 2023 · Following one year of dating, Ted and Robin called it quits at the end of season 2 because they were growing apart. How I Met Your Mother continued to circle around the idea of Ted and...
Jul 4, 2022 · The show ends with Ted actually meeting the mother, at the Farhampton station, and they have an adorable exchange of dialogues, after which Future Ted says the last lines of the show – the long-awaited “… and that kids, is how I met your mother.”
