Happy New Year everyone! It’s not even a week into mid-season and I’m already three and a half hours behind on television watching and only because I just watched the 100th episode of How I Met Your Mother.
My review of episode 100, “Girls vs Suits” is below….spoilers ensue.
I’m sorry to say it but I think the thing I liked the least about this episode was that they cast Rachel Bilson as Ted’s future wife’s roommate. From seeing her on NBC’s Chuck and in this role on How I Met Your Mother, I feel like she can play the quintessential girl next door and she’s perfect and she’s gorgeous and therein lies the rub. I think Bilson’s character, Cindy, would have been if not perfect for Ted, a worthy contender for the role of the Mother and I would have much enjoyed seeing him date her long-term. I would have adored seeing her on for a season as Ted’s long-term love interest. That said, it may have killed me to see them break up.
But, unfortunately, Bilson seems to nail the girl-next-door, so for me, she needs to either a) be the mother or b) they need to nip it in the bud early on that she’s not lest I fall in love with her character more than I’m already predisposed to. Option A effectively ends the “story,” although there’s no reason that they couldn’t just keep on telling stories once Ted meets her as, as Alan Sepinwall points out they often tell better stories when older Ted isn’t fussing about stories that actually advance the search for the Mother. So they went with option B which, although I do understand it, it makes me sad because as I said, I really would have loved to see Ted date Cindy for a season if it wouldn’t cause all sorts of problems when she turned out not to be the Mother.
Other than that I liked the episode well enough. I love that Tim Gunn from Project Runway guest-starred as “TV’s Tim Gunn,” but like Bilson I felt that Gunn was way underused because the episode tried to cram way too much into 21 minutes of screen time. I enjoyed the musical number and Barney’s suit sub-plot but I think less would have been more unless we could have had more be more and somehow convince CBS to order an hour-long for the 100th episode…alas! It was not to be.
All in all a good episode though I thought the guest-stars were underused. Nice to hear NPH sing, and I’m always charmed to see the lovely Rachel Bilson on screen.
Here’s wishing everyone an enjoyable mid-season. For my part, I’d like to not completely drop the ball and fall so far behind that it’s the week before the fall season by the time I finally catch up.
But in any case, congratulations to the cast and crew of How I Met Your Mother on their 100th episode! I look forward to the rest of this season and hopefully a few more before the story wraps up.
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