This is the second thing the writers did really well: the writers gave us a really, really powerful distraction.

Ted can’t tell a short version of a story to save his life, so this is the principle we’re learning: postponing a reveal.

Lily and Marshall’s wedding is finally here, and since this is a sitcom, you know absolutely everything is going to go wrong.

If you’ve gotten to the end of the story, and you don’t feel like you’ve earned it, you need to back up.

This week, we’re talking about closeness and how these storylines demonstrate that these characters are now closer than ever.

Once again, Ted opens this episode with an ominous teaser. “Life was good. But everything was about to change.” He’s telling us the...

This was written as a possible series finale, and that’s the question that Ted has to answer again and again in this series.