"The Platinum Rule" encapsulated many of the things that I love about this show, but most importantly its willingness to be the exact opposite of everything else on TV, and to do it brilliantly.
The fact that the point of the show is to find out who my mother is, but we never find ourselves just wanting to find out already. The journey is more rewarding than the destination.
Any other show would constantly be promising hints at who my mother is and every episode would have to end with some clue (or a loud explosion) but in this show, the episodes that don't advance the show's main plot are often the best ones.
The episode starting with the gang warning Ted not to date his doctor, the one who is going to remove his tramp stamp. "If you have it removed how will everyone know you're a stripper from Reno with daddy issues."
As usual the episode was perfectly crafted and the story flowed perfectly from Barney's story (Wendy the waitress) to Marshall and Lilly's story (the charades loving neighbors) to Robin's story (the hockey playing sports guy). And for each of those times they used the previous instances as a warning, but no one ever listened.
This episode was a perfect example of what I like in a TV show, movie, personal encounter...a good story, well told.
Too bad we won't have anymore good stories for a while.
I'm actually glad the strike is still going on. This means that there is a slight chance Special K and I will catch up on the 40 hours of TV TiVo has waiting for us already.
ReplyDeleteOh poo. I didn't realize that this was the last new episode. At least it ended on a high note and not with that crappy super model episode.
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