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Showing posts with label neil patrick harris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neil patrick harris. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Ted Mosby is a 20-something architect living in New York with his best friends Marshall & Lilly. When Marshall & Lilly finally get engaged Ted and their friend Barney are left as the single people of the group, which is fine for womanizing Barney but makes Ted realize he wants to find Ms. Right. Enter Robin Scherbatsky, a local reporter who Ted falls for instantly and pursues endlessly, all the while future Ted narrates the tale to his two teenage children so that he can fill them in on the magic and the mystery of how he met their mother.
What perhaps is the best thing about season one of How I Met Your Mother is that the writers manage to take a pretty strange concept, a father narrating his past for his kids, and not only make it intriguing from episode to episode but each episode manages to advance the characters, but be alternatively dramatic and side splittingly hilarious. Unlike a lot of sitcoms How I Met Your Mother has a story to tell, and it uses each and every season to advance that story further, leading up to the eventual and reveal of Ted’s wife.
I love each and every character on How I Met Your Mother but I must say that the show has given me an entirely new appreciation and respect for Neil Patrick Harris. Barney is everything I as a woman should hate about men; he uses women, treats them as objects, is lude and far too vain and greedy. However, Barney is executed by the writers, director and Harris in a way that makes him completely and utterly endearing and hysterical. I find myself saying “Suit up!” in real life.
I cannot wait to find out who Ted’s wife is. But I am sure the journey until we get there will be amazing, and I cannot wait to see where the writers take us.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Ted Mosby: Josh Radnor
Marshall Eriksen: Jason Segel
Robin Scherbatsky: Cobie Smulders
Barney Stinson: Neil Patrick Harris
Lily Aldrin: Alyson Hannigan
Barney: It's gonna be legend-... wait for it... and I hope you're not lactose intolerant because the second half of that word is DAIRY!
What perhaps is the best thing about season one of How I Met Your Mother is that the writers manage to take a pretty strange concept, a father narrating his past for his kids, and not only make it intriguing from episode to episode but each episode manages to advance the characters, but be alternatively dramatic and side splittingly hilarious. Unlike a lot of sitcoms How I Met Your Mother has a story to tell, and it uses each and every season to advance that story further, leading up to the eventual and reveal of Ted’s wife.
I love each and every character on How I Met Your Mother but I must say that the show has given me an entirely new appreciation and respect for Neil Patrick Harris. Barney is everything I as a woman should hate about men; he uses women, treats them as objects, is lude and far too vain and greedy. However, Barney is executed by the writers, director and Harris in a way that makes him completely and utterly endearing and hysterical. I find myself saying “Suit up!” in real life.
I cannot wait to find out who Ted’s wife is. But I am sure the journey until we get there will be amazing, and I cannot wait to see where the writers take us.
Director: Pamela Fryman
Ted Mosby: Josh Radnor
Marshall Eriksen: Jason Segel
Robin Scherbatsky: Cobie Smulders
Barney Stinson: Neil Patrick Harris
Lily Aldrin: Alyson Hannigan
Barney: It's gonna be legend-... wait for it... and I hope you're not lactose intolerant because the second half of that word is DAIRY!
Friday, August 1, 2008
I debated putting this review up for awhile, and I finally decided I can. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is not a movie, but it’s not a TV show either; it is a short project that is more along the lines of a short film and is available on iTunes.
Dr. Horrible is the latest project to spring from the mind of Joss Whedon and onto our home entertainment systems (until Dollhouse this fall); for those of you not in the know this is the man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Titan A.E., and the upcoming Cabin in the Woods. He is a man known for original concepts, witty dialogue and perfect casting. In my opinion he’s had three of the best television shows ever to grace the airwaves.
When I saw him at Comic Con in 2007 he spoke of a little project he wanted to do with Neil Patrick Harris called Dr. Horrible and that he decided he was not entertaining audiences enough in the past few years and he was going to start entertaining us again.
I did not know that his first attempt at entertaining us would be Dr. Horrible, but I was not disappointed.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is bout none other than the arch-villain wannabe Dr. Horrible. He’s trying to get into the Evil League of Evil run by Bad Horse, he has an insane crush on Penny who he can’t muster the strength to talk to every week at the laundry matt, and his arch nemesis is Captian Hammer who is a very self-involved super hero. Dr. Horrible has turned in his application to the Evil League of Evil and is waiting to hear back about his application; he finally does hear back and is told that he is under consideration and they are watching him and his dastardly deeds. Oh, and it’s a musical.
Watching this I was reminded of why I tuned into Buffy religiously every week. Joss Whedon manages to capture my imagination in a way that no one else ever has, and he can make me laugh, cry and be tense in the same hour time period. I really want Joss to begin getting the recognition that he deserves.
Writer & Director: Joss Whedon
Other Writers: The Whedon Brothers & Maurissa Tancharoen
Dr. Horrible: Neil Patrick Harris
Captain Hammer: Nathan Fillion
Penny: Felicia Day
Moist: Simon Helberg
Dr. Horrible: I also need to be a little bit more careful about what I say on this blog. Apparently, the LAPD and Captain Hammer are among our viewers.
Dr. Horrible is the latest project to spring from the mind of Joss Whedon and onto our home entertainment systems (until Dollhouse this fall); for those of you not in the know this is the man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Titan A.E., and the upcoming Cabin in the Woods. He is a man known for original concepts, witty dialogue and perfect casting. In my opinion he’s had three of the best television shows ever to grace the airwaves.
When I saw him at Comic Con in 2007 he spoke of a little project he wanted to do with Neil Patrick Harris called Dr. Horrible and that he decided he was not entertaining audiences enough in the past few years and he was going to start entertaining us again.
I did not know that his first attempt at entertaining us would be Dr. Horrible, but I was not disappointed.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is bout none other than the arch-villain wannabe Dr. Horrible. He’s trying to get into the Evil League of Evil run by Bad Horse, he has an insane crush on Penny who he can’t muster the strength to talk to every week at the laundry matt, and his arch nemesis is Captian Hammer who is a very self-involved super hero. Dr. Horrible has turned in his application to the Evil League of Evil and is waiting to hear back about his application; he finally does hear back and is told that he is under consideration and they are watching him and his dastardly deeds. Oh, and it’s a musical.
Watching this I was reminded of why I tuned into Buffy religiously every week. Joss Whedon manages to capture my imagination in a way that no one else ever has, and he can make me laugh, cry and be tense in the same hour time period. I really want Joss to begin getting the recognition that he deserves.
Writer & Director: Joss Whedon
Other Writers: The Whedon Brothers & Maurissa Tancharoen
Dr. Horrible: Neil Patrick Harris
Captain Hammer: Nathan Fillion
Penny: Felicia Day
Moist: Simon Helberg
Dr. Horrible: I also need to be a little bit more careful about what I say on this blog. Apparently, the LAPD and Captain Hammer are among our viewers.
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