How they conned us all. CBSWell, here we are at the series finale of How I Met Your Mother, and I have a review of everything that went down, coming up just as soon as I post the Boner Joke of the Day. This was January of 2. Drumroll, Please would introduce Victoria, who was Carter Bays and Craig Thomas back up Mother plan in the event the show got canceled after only a season. Latest Stories. Game of Thrones Final Season Might Not Air Until 2019 This is a bummer CancerFree Kassie DePaiva Will Be Returning to Days of Our Lives DePaiva. I was at CBS press tour party, and I talked with Bays, Thomas, Pamela Fryman, Josh Radnor and Cobie Smulders about the palpable chemistry between Ted and Robin, and whether in hindsight the pilots closing line was one twist too many. When she played a scene with Radnor, Smulders said, magic happens, chemistry flows, fireworks get set off. I cant explain it, but its kind of meant to be and obviously not. We love watching Josh and Cobie together, Fryman said. We want to see it again. I dont know, Radnor said. Were sticking by those guns, Bays said something very interesting, and that kept coming back to me as Last Forever went on and it became more and more clear that the two of them had actually gone through with this horrible, horrible plan for the Mother to be dead in 2. Future Ted to be telling this long, largely non Mother related story to his kids because he and Aunt Robin were going to end up together. Cbs How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Episode 1' title='Cbs How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Episode 1' />What Bays said was this I feel like with great art, you have to create constraints for yourself. You look at The White Stripes, they only want to have a guitar and drums, so they have to make all their music around guitar and drums. We have to make all our comedy around what the narrator says. And as I thought of that quote, and as I remembered that they shot the kids reaction to the end of Future Teds story way back in season 2, my anger over this terrible, misconceived, ginormous middle finger to the fanbase very, very briefly turned into sympathy for Bays and Thomas, because I realized they had become victims of their own damn cleverness. Which led to the most awkward interaction of past and present footage since Tony Sopranos final conversation with his mother. Because they wanted to make their pilot seem unpredictable enough to catch the attention of a CBS development exec way back in the script stage, they added the Aunt Robin gag at the end. Cet article prsente le guide des pisodes de la neuvime et dernire saison de la srie tlvise amricaine How I Met Your Mother. How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted Josh Radnor and how he fell in love. It all starts when Teds best friend, Marshall Jason Segel, drops the bombshell. Cbs How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Episode 1' title='Cbs How I Met Your Mother Season 9 Episode 1' />But they couldnt have known at the time just how good Radnor and Smulders would be together, how much the fans would want to see them be together, and how hard it would be to come up with another pairing that equaled it. As Bays noted, they were bound by what the narrator told us, and as Thomas insisted, Robin would not be revealed to be the kids mother. But there was nothing in that narration that said that Ted and the Mother still had to be together in 2. And that gave them an out, and another opportunity to be clever. Because they knew the kids were aging, they could film their reactions now, and save them for whenever the show ended which, at that pre Britney Spears phase when HIMYM lived perpetually on the bubble, seemed like it could be in another year or two at best and they would be all set, and their fans would be happy and impressed by both their forethought and creativity. They had a plan. They were going to stick to that plan. They would take the title literally, introduce the Mother at the very end, then kill her off to clear the way for the TedRobin coupling everyone really wanted. They just didnt count on any of the following 1. The show would improbably turn into one of the longest running comedies CBS has ever aired, which would force them to stretch out Teds story forever and a day, and then to do insanely stupid things like spending the entire final season on the run up to Robin and Barneys wedding a wedding that, by the way, would be undone before the very next episode was halfway over. And that unexpected length would force them to revisit the question of Ted and Robins feelings for each other or lack thereof so many times that even the fans who once cared deeply about them would grow tired of the idea. It would turn out that Radnor wasnt the only co star that Smulders had absurd chemistry levels with, and that the fans would for a time get more deeply invested in the RobinBarney ship than they were in Robin and Ted. The show would be such a big hit by the end that CBS would order one more season than originally planned for, which would turn the Mother from someone we saw for five minutes in the finale to someone we would get to know over an entire season. And worse, as played by Milioti, the Mother would turn out to be by far the best thing to happen to Ted, or the show, in years. Suddenly, they had conceived of an entire season in which she would disappear for long stretches, and die at the end, even though the only thing many of the remaining viewers wanted was more of her, and the happiest of endings for her and Ted. But they were bound by the rules they had made for themselves. They had a plan. They had to stick to that plan. And the result of that plan was among the more maddening things Ive seen in the finale of a show I at one point loved. And kids, I know from anger inducing finales. I literally wrote a book about a bunch of shows that featured them, and that book featured candid quotes from their creators about how little of those series were planned and how much was created on the fly. Those quotes angered many fans of those shows, who used them as further evidence for why they hated the endings, and for why no show should be allowed to improvise major story arcs ever. And if any good can possibly come out of this HIMYM finale, I would hope that it is the end of this belief. Because so much of what was terrible here was terrible because Bays and Thomas had a very specific vision for the ending of their show and would not or, perhaps, after they filmed the kids reactions, could not deviate from it. And based on the initial reaction Ive seen to the episode, its going to forever sour the opinion many fans of the show had for it, no matter how much they may have enjoyed Slap Bet or Ten Sessions or Swarley. And thats not even counting what sort of impact this is going to have on How I Met Your Dad if CBS picks it up, because Bays, Thomas, Emily Spivey and Greta Gerwig are going to spend every waking minute answering questions about when the Dad is going to die. Because this was horrible. Showtime Full On The Bowery Online Free. This ignored everything that had happened between Ted and Robin, between Robin and Barney, between Ted and Barney and, especially, between Ted Evelyn Mosby and Tracy Mc. Connell, all because once upon a time, this is what Bays and Thomas wanted to do. They had plenty of opportunity over the years to course correct. They could have at some point accepted that the RobinBarney coupling made Future TedFuture Robin not only moot, but annoying. They could have introduced the Mother sooner and just made her a part of the gang and every single moment this season in which Milioti was allowed to interact with the regulars either in Farhampton or in the flashforwards suggested that they could have pulled it off, easily. Watch Agent Cody Banks Online (2017). Hell, even at this late hour, they could have recognized what they had in Milioti and accepted that that old bit of footage with Lyndsy Fonseca and David Henrie would remain unseen forever or, at worst, be a special feature to lure people into buying the complete series box set, and that the fans would get over not seeing the kids react to the end of this endless story. If HIMYM hadnt been as great as it was in its early days, or as great as it could even be from time to time more recently, I wouldnt care this much. I wouldnt be as angry as I am. But there kept being moments in this final season, and throughout this final episode, that reminded me of what the show is capable of, and it only filled me with more despair that we were clearly heading towards the ending I feared was coming ever since Vesuvius aired. Like How I Met Your Dad, I hear the new project, titled How I Met Your Father, is an ensemble show that tells the story from a female point of view. It is a brand new take on the premise with new characters and new writers This Is Us co executive producers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. The project hails from HIMYM studio 2. TV, where Aptaker and Berger are under an overall deal. Courtesy of Verve. How I Met Your Dad was written by How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays Craig Thomas and Emily Spivey. As creators of the original series, Bays and Thomas will serve as executive producers on the offshoot with Aptaker and Berger, but their day to day involvement is unknown. The duo is under an exclusive overall deal at Sony TV and have a hot comedy project at CBS with comedian Chris Distefano, which has a pilot production commitment. Like How I Met Your Dad, which was described by CBS at the time as a kindred spirit to the networks How I Met. Your Mother, How I Met Your Father is not a traditional spinoff. It just incorporates the same storytelling device as the original series of a person in this case a mother telling the story of how they met their spouse. I hear the script is still being written as a spec internally at 2. TV, and it is not clear when it will hit the marketplace. Because it is not a traditional spinoff involving characters from the original series, I hear it doesnt necessarily have to go to CBS, with the field of potential networks wide open. Sony TVHow I Met Your Dad was ordered as a pilot by CBS in 2. In one of the biggest upfront surprises that year, the pilot starring Greta Gerwig didnt go to series. The network offered to re pilot the comedy but CBS and 2. TV couldnt agree on terms for the redevelopment, and the project ultimately fell through. But the studio has remained high on the premise, occasionally revisiting the idea, even after Bays and Thomas moved to Sony. HIMYM, which flew largely under the radar for its first few seasons, wasnt a blockbuster ratings hit like The Big Bang Theory and wasnt an awards darling like Modern Family, but it broke ground, pushing the limits of the traditional multi camera sitcom with a new production model and heavy serialization that helped it attract younger 1. Appealing to younger audiences, HIMYM also became one of the first TV comedy series to develop online following and heat up on social media. Comedy writer producers Aptaker and Berger have emerged as key writer producers on the breakout new NBC2. TV drama series This Is Us, penning multiple episodes, including the Thanksgiving one, and sharing in the shows WGA Award New Series nomination. Like This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman, who recruited them after theyd worked on his ABC comedy series The Neighbors, Aptaker and Berger come from half hour background, with a resume that includes stints on Foxs Grandfathered, also exec produced by Fogelman, and NBCs Friends With Benefits and About A Boy. The friends and scribes have been writing as a team for more than nine years after they met at NYUs Tisch School of the Arts. Aptaker, who grew up outside Boston, amused himself as a 1. Boy Meets World, and Berger, who grew up in Queens, began doling out advice to the head writer of Sesame Street who happened to be her father at a very young age. Aptaker and Berger are repped by Verve, Management 3. Hansen Jacobson. Bays and Thomas are with UTA.