How I Met Your Mother
Originally Published Date:
January 9, 2011
**** SPOILER ALERT ****
If you have not seen the show, do NOT read any further!
We all know that TV shows are designed to help you forget about life for a while especially sitcoms. But every once in a great while there comes a show that you feel drawn to more than any other. I have always been one to throw myself completely into a movie or show I watch. I think that is why I love radio plays so much. I can imagine myself being there. Anyway, one such show has come along called “How I Met Your Mother”. I have been a fan from day one and didn’t think the show would last because none of the shows I really like ever last. Case in point “The Heights”.
There is something about “How I Met Your Mother” that has drawn me in. While the show has never been high on my radar as a “can’t wait to see”, I don’t think I have ever missed an episode. Something has just changed that. On last week’s episode the producers decided to throw in a very cleverly disgusted countdown. Countdown to what you may ask. We didn’t know. But the episode built you up for the news of one of the main characters’ pregnancy. Instead, they punched you in the gut with the death of a parent. It left me not only hurting and feeling for the characters, but wanting to see how it will be handled.
You see over the last 6 seasons I have connected with most of the characters in one way or another. Barney: who DOESN'T want to be Barney?! Ted: I WAS Ted in my late twenties searching for that one person to spend the rest of my life with. Marshal: well now that I found that person, I have turned into the goofy happily married guy who refuses to leave the inner child behind. When the news came about Marshal’s father, you saw a side of him you never see. He broke down. He needed support more than anything; he was vulnerable. I have to say that I was in that moment with him and even started to tear up.
Shows that move you like that do not come along too often. And when they do they tend to jump the shark too soon. So now my question is, did anyone else see the episode and have any feelings about it? Have you ever felt this way about any other show?
Until next time,
Thanks for reading!
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POST SCRIPT:
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Looking back on this article has put some reflection on myself. I find that the older I get the more emotional I get when wrapped up in what I am watching or listening to. If I hear certain songs on the radio, I feel for the main character. I’ve stopped hiding my feelings about things like this. Instead, I embrace them because without that part of me, I would not be as creative as I am. I need that part of me as inspiration to work.
I remember when I saw this episode, how broken Marshall was over losing his father and rightfully so. Feeling the death of a parent on a tv show or movie, really makes you stop and appreciate what gifts you still have in your life. I empathized with him. That his best friend for his entire life, his father, was suddenly gone. I remember him getting the news from his wife and trying to be strong. As she hugs him tight and the camera pans away, he breaks down and confesses “I'm not ready for this”. It made me feel the same way. That episode alone, shows just how talented Jason Segel is. He made me FEEL something. It leaves me speechless.
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