It's a crisis of career for Ted...
Goliath National Bank revives its headquarters project but Ted wants no part of it after what happened to him the last time. Barney tries to convince him of giving it a second chance by using all of his best womanizing tactics. Robin's post-breakup depression leads her to drunk-dial Don.
Review
I'm aware of how disturbingly slow I've been to review this but then I've only just managed to actually watch it! So it's back to back reviews for episodes 3 and 4.
This week we're dealing with Ted's confusion at taking up the offer from Goliath National Bank to design their headquarters, a job he's already been fired from once. Barney and Marshall spend the bulk of this episode trying to subvert Ted into taking up the job. Meanwhile Lilly and Robin are trying to deal with Robin's left over feelings for Don after she catches him on TV.
I'm realising that the more I write reviews for this show the harder it is to find the words to write about it, although the overall premise of the show is about the search for Mommy you really don't realise until you are writing at length about it that this doesn't really factor in to many of the episodes. In fact 3 episodes in to this season and we've only have 1 episodes which was vaguely related to the title.
What I'm trying to say is... I am having a mommy related crisis! I'm also going to need to change my review aggregator or this show is really going to start scoring low.
It's not that I don't love this show it's just that there are no week-by-week threads to discuss in review form. So from here on out we will just have to take each episode at face value and unfortunately this is a predominantly Ted-centre episode.
As I have mentioned before there is a general consensus that Ted is perhaps one of the most one dimensional characters in sitcom world. After over 5 years this guy has not developed much from where he was in the pilot so watching an episode which focuses on him but doesn't push his character any further forwards is not that fun to watch.
I found much more enjoyment in watching Robin finally get over Don and the hilarious scenes of Lilly trying to do martial arts than I did in watching Ted mull over taking the job for Goliath Bank. There's a spark between the two actresses (as there is with the boys sans Ted on occasion) which is very fun to watch on screen and as a 'Buffy' fan it's always intriguing to watch Alyson Hannigan playing comedy.
The problem maybe isn't so much the character of Ted himself but more that as he stands still in the search for his future wife all his friends have progressed along with the series and left him behind. There's far more mileage for the audience in characters who aren't stalled in one plays in their lives apart from perhaps the case of an extremely well written character like Sheldon on 'The Big Bang Theory'.
The story here isn't bad it just ends in the same place it begins... roll on next week.
Next week...
Robin vows to convince the gang she is a "real" New Yorker, despite their teasing to the contrary, since she hails from Canada. When Woody Allen is spotted in a downtown restaurant, Robin rushes to see the quintessential New Yorker.
Overall
Storyline 3.0
Mommyness 0.0
Barney Moments 3.0
Overall 2.0
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