In the last season, Marshall gives up his job so she can move to Italy for a year and be an art buyer. 

I agree. Friends was a show I watched briefly when it started because I thought it was a cool adult thing to do (I am in my late 30s now). I stopped watching it, but did watch the finale because it was a bit of a cultural touchstone. When she ended up with Ross, it just felt off somehow. At the time I attributed it to …

i never watched HIMYM but this always bothered me about the end of friends, too. ross and rachel were always horrible for each other. seemed likely they would break up 6 weeks after the show finished.

Personally, having rewatched the series start to finish a few years back, I think the final season was actually very strong.

Yeah, I kind of understand some of the “not Robin AGAIN” groans, but it all made sense in the end. The story starts with the night he met Robin, and that’s where it ends up. There’s no other reason the story starts there. He wants to tell his kids he’s thinking of moving on.

This was my favorite show on TV when it was airing. I love the rhythms of a good multi-cam sitcom, and I’m a sucker for the kind of idealistic romance that Ted wanted. The show definitely went on too long and that last season is a disaster in pacing, but when the dust settled, I still liked how everything played out.

I didn’t LOVE the finale, but I definitely like the aired version better than the alternate cut where the mother doesn’t die. It was foreshadowed a lot throughout the series, and while it wasn’t ideal, it didn’t ruin the show for me, partly because the show ran for so long I can still watch the earlier episodes in a…

Look, if you ever thought that The Mother was going to be alive, it’s your own damn fault for not passing 6th-grade reading comprehension.
Among some of the clues:
The fact that The Mother is only ever referred to in the past tense
The fact that The Mother never makes an appearance in the “present day” parts
The fact…

I defended the finale when it originally aired, and, having rewatched the series somewhat recently (while my gf and I were in the first COVID lockdown and needing a good stress-reducer show), I still mostly stick by my initial reaction.

I by no means think it’s perfect, but the death of the mother was clearly…

It really is odd how the AV Club (and other outlets) are placing blame on everyone but Scott - a man who has encouraged this kind of dangerous behavior at every show he’s ever done. The Astroworld festival even used his “rage” philosophy as a selling point.