If somehow you still haven't heard about how the HIMYM series ends, do not read any further!
When the beloved show How I Met Your Mother aired it's season finale a few weeks back, many viewers were outraged. How could they drag the show on for 9 seasons and the mother is dead the entire time? Everyone who was rooting for Barney and Robin were left disappointed, and many fans felt that the ending was "an easy way out."
The show's star, Neil Patrick Harris, made an appearance on "Late Show." He told Letterman he was a big proponent of the season finale. Harris defended the ending, saying that Barney isn't the type of character that is going to settle down and change out of the blue. "You want Barney to be the guy you bring your mom home to, but Barney is the guy that wants to bang your mom," Harris told Letterman.
He continued to defend HIMYM, saying that "sometimes people's growth doesn't mean they grow up."
Do you agree with Neil Patrick Harris? Watch the video below, and decide for yourself what you think.
Award Season has finally kicked off! The Emmy Awards were
this weekend and they were quite different from years before. Check it out.
Neil Patrick Harris was the host this year so expectations
were high, not only because he has quite the experience with hosting big award
shows like the Tonys, but also because he is the main character of the funny
sit-com How I Met Your Mother. However, perhaps my expectations were too
high. The grand entrance of an original musical
number, specially choreographed to the Emmys for our excitement and to keep us
wanting to watch more was none other than disappointing. Mostly because there wasn’t one. Instead it was like most previous openings
where other celebrities are in some way trying to tell him how to host a show
and what he is doing wrong, as well as him taking a few jabs at other
celebrities in the audience. The opening
of the show was quite sad, much like the rest of the show.
This year the show seemed more to me as a funeral reception
more than anything. Like Ken Levine, a
hollywood comedic writer, put it, “it was one long funeral interspersed with
production numbers.” There were individual tributes, musical tributes,
presidential tributes, and they even felt it necessary to show Lee Harvey
Oswald get shot again. I was very confused by all of this. Especially by Elton
Johns tribute to Liberace. Its been over
25 years, I didn’t get it but maybe im just missing something, I don’t know. Regardless, I did not see the relevance most
of that had to do with the actual Emmy awards.
To kick off one of the big shocks of the night. Merrit
Wever, from Nurse Jackie, won the Emmy
for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She out-won Anna
Chlumsky from Veep, Jane Krakowski
from 30 Rock, Jane Lynch from Glee, Mayim Bialik from The Big Bang Theory, Sofia Vergara in Modern Family, and two-time consecutive
Emmy winner, Julie Bowen, from Modern
Family. I definitely didn’t see that one coming. And perhaps what was even more
unexpected was her speech. A short and
humorous “ Thank you so much. I gotta go. Bye” was all she said in response to
her new piece of gold. Maybe she was
afraid of the getting cut off by the music cue in the middle of an important
acknowledgment like every other winning actor and actress of the night. Either
way it was actually pretty fun to watch since it was not at all what I was
expecting to happen.
The other major shock of the night was when Jeff Daniels, as
Will McAvoy, in the show The Newsroom,
was the winner for Outstanding Lead Actor in Drama Series. He beat out John Hamm as Don Draper in Mad Men,
Hugh Bonneville for Downton Abbey, DamianLewis for Homeland, Kevin Spacey for House of Cards, and Bryan Cranston as the infamous Walter White of Breaking Bad. My mouth dropped to say the
least. I definitely would have lost a bet on this one. All of these actors do tremendous work,
however I firmly believe Breaking Bad
would not be the show it is without Bryan Cranston. His performances are incredible and very much
worth of the acknowledgement.
On a different note, The mid-show performance referencing
all of the shows for best TV drama was really cool to watch. The choreography
was spectacular in the way that every move correlated to the different themes
of the shows and what they represent. It
was by far my favorite part of the entire show.
Besides when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler decided to crawl up the stage.
That was priceless.
The Emmy awards are always something I look
forward to watching around this time of year.
However this year was a miss in terms of entertainment for me so I hope
for the Oscars and Golden Globes to make up for it in the next few months.
In 2008, during the most recent Writers Guild of America strike, brothers Joss, Jed, and Zack Whedon created Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Shortly after its release, this three part miniseries became a huge internet sensation. Besides having the talented minds of Joss Whedon (The Avengers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and his brothers, the project boasted talented actors like Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), Felicia Day (The Guild), Nathan Fillion (Castle), and Simon Helberg (The Big Bang Theory). Over the span of forty-three minutes, there are fourteen incredibly catchy songs and loads of quotable dialogue (I've had some of the lyrics stuck in my head all day thus I felt the need to blog about it).
Dr. Horrible is a villain with a video blog who updates his viewers regularly on his various villainous schemes. On the vlog he mentions his progress on his Freeze Ray that will stop time, how he melted gold bars to destroy the status quo, and what advances he has made toward his 'laundry buddy,' Penny. However Dr. Horrible, also known as 'Billy buddy,' inadvertently introduced Penny to his arch-nemesis Captain Hammer. Being a ladies man, Captain Hammer instantly sweeps Penny off her feet and Dr. Horrible tries to win her back at the Laundromat, but the more he tries to win Penny's heart, the further away Dr. Horrible gets from his objective, which is to get into the Evil League of Evil. With Captain Hammer always foiling his plans, Dr. Horrible must find a way to win the girl and obtain a spot in the League.
This miniseries is hilarious yet I somehow find myself often on the verge of tears because that's what Whedon does. He makes you laugh and get emotionally invested in the characters, but then he tears your heart out.
Still, if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend it. This is something that I can watch over and over again.
