Features
Wednesday, January 11 2012
The Best Television Shows of 2011
The small screen offers up the usual suspects, proving once again that, with a few exceptions, what's good on today's prime time schedule will stay that way until the next best-of list.
Wednesday, January 12 2011
The Best TV Shows of 2010
Running the gamut from the ever-present to the new and novel, PopMatters' TV picks prove that, as a medium, the small screen challenges the big at every entertainment (and aesthetic) level.
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best TV of 2009
Aside from one or two new shows, this look at the Best of TV 2009 seems awfully familiar. A look at early '60s admen? A practically incomprehensible drama about an island of airplane crash castaways? The Americanization of a UK workplace comedy? That definitely rings a bell.
Reviews
Sunday, October 16 2011
'How I Met Your Mother: Season Six' Gains Weight and Substance
In Season Six of How I Met Your Mother, the gang is confronted by some of the harsh realities of life, and comes out stronger for it.
Tuesday, October 5 2010
Musical Numbers and Neal Patrick Harris Help Save 'How I Met Your Mother: The Complete Season 5'
This season had great highs and unimpressive lows, with the formerly central Ted drifting into being usually a background character while Barney takes center stage.
Tuesday, December 19 2006
How I Met Your Mother: Season One
This is no static workplace comedy or rinse-repeat tale of funny family life. As the narration from the future reminds us, life as the characters know it is destined to end.
Monday, October 3 2005
How I Met Your Mother
The story of that meeting unfolds in what will surely become the longest flashback in TV history, especially if the series stays on the air beyond a season.
News
Wednesday, February 17 2010
'How I Met Your Mother' hits 100 episodes
LOS ANGELES — Reaching 100 episodes is a milestone for a television series because it means the show has attracted enough viewers to last at…

































