I have been watching How I Met Your Mother for what feels like a life time at this point and it has been popular to say for what also feels like forever that the show is not as good as it once was and they should have ended it a long time ago. There is validity in a good part of that but even at it’s worst the show had some high points. Now with an end in sight I feel like it has hit a long of high points and last night’s episode was, to me, a very high point. I won’t bore people with recaps or explanations but the Mother was always the most central character who was never there and introducing the mother was always going to be a very perilous thing. They have managed to skip over that land mine so far but last night was extra impressive because it took the Mother from being perfect for Ted to just… very charming. You can get how someone would tell their kids a 9 year story about her. Kind of. For me when she was singing “La Vie En Rose" at the end I was finding myself smitten. That’s the power of music, when done well it is just magic in a way other arts are not for me. It was moving and it was beautiful. And I am 100% impressed with Cristin Milioti’s voice and her charm on screen. Obviously she has worked before and to some acclaim on stage but for me this feels like the first time I really saw her. She was spectacular. Today I want to fuck Cristin Milioti.



