A Double Bill of *How I Met Your Mother* Followed by New Faces on *Castle*, My Mondays are Back!

The double bill of How i Met Your Mother took us back to that finale moment with  Barney standing their being the groom and also gave us another few teases as to who the bride could be.  On Castle it started off with the aftermath of the funeral shooting, we all knew Kate would survive but what we didn't know is what she would remember and how it would impact her.

How I Met Your Mother - 7x01 The Best Man & 7x02 The Naked Truth

The first hour of HIMYM was all really about Punchy's wedding and Marshall and Lily telling the rest of the gang their news.   Ted was best man at Punchy's wedding and scared to give a toast as he managed to break down at all the other weddings whilst giving the toast and thanks to Punchy had become somewhat of a you tube hit in Finland.  This does scare me sometimes thinking that people could have videoed me and in some other country I am a hit.  However the gang pointed out that this year he hasn't been left at the alter (Stella), he hasn't lost his job in fact he is on the cover of New York Magazine.  Unfortunately when it came to bragging about this to everyone at the wedding their news was better, to Marshall, because they each had families, which leads Ted to serial dating,  usiing the magazine at newspaper stands as a pick up line.  After dating two women successfully Ted was going to carry it on until seeing how much of a fool Barney was willing to be for love, it reminded Ted exactly why he was a sucker for love.  So in the end instead of inviting one of his new conquests to this big architecture ball he takes Robin but end up seeing a very old fling there, it was the return of Victoria/Buttercup from Seaosn 1. 

Onto Marshall and Lilly, I gotta say I kinda love Marshall drunk in both of the opening episodes we see for the better term of it wasted.  In the wedding episode he gets drunk to hide the fact that Lilly is pregnant and well ends up outing the brides pregnancy as well, funny times.  In the 2nd episode his new potential boss (played by the awesomely funny Martin Short) explains they will have to do an internet search and background check but if it all pans out well he has the job.  Which leads them to discovering videos on-line of Marshall in collage as Beercules, and then to try to get the video taken down he ends up doing an updated version just for his new potential boss, who incidentally loved it and hires him anyway.

Robin and Barney had a very seductive dance at the wedding confirming to Lily and Robin that there was still chemistry between the two of them, unfortunately though Barney has all eyes for Nora at the minute.  After disgusting Nora with all his pick up stories he decides to wait in the diner until he gets his second date with her, which works out indeed.

Castle - 4x01 Rise

Castle pick up right where we left off in the finale, Kate gets rushed into hospital after being shot in the chest and Esposito and Ryan promise to catch the shooter. Castle4 and Kate's boyfriend Josh who is also one for the doctors at the hospital come to blows ad Josh blames Castle for Kate being shot.  When Kate wakes up the next day Castle goes to see her and she asks him for some time, I knew here straight away she wasn't gunna call him for months, but I thought It was because she's still angry at him for taking her out of the aeroplane hanger, not because she's not ready to deal.  Kate tells Castle that she cant remember anything form the moment she was shot, which of course is when Castle told her he loves her.

Time passes on, 3 months from what I think they said and Kate is back to the precinct, where she meets the news boss Captain Victora Gates (Iron Gates) who has come from IA (Internal Affairs) so does everything exactly by the book, you know straight away thought that this means she is gunna get caught up in something nasty and that the team are going to have to go well against the book to help her.  Iron Gates we find out has got rid of Castle and has been keeping a close eye on her detectives, she has also shut down the shooting case on Kate as there were no new leads.  Of course this tremendously peeves Kate off and leads her to find Castle apologise and well sneak around the new boss ladies back to continues investigating her shooting, Roy's death and her mothers death, oh I see this ending well, not.   I'm kinda hoping that the continue with this conspiracy case like they have been the past 3 seasons, not making it a big deal until a big lead turns up for one episode.  Or maybe they can solve this conspiracy or at least why her mother was murdered by the end of this season and get Kate and Castle together. 

This première episode was more about introductions and  well getting back to old ways, the murder of the episode was nothing interesting in itself, it lead Kate to question her ability a little bit but that was cleared up by the end. I am not saying it was a bad episode at all because I really enjoyed it, just means I am excited for the rest of the season! I see next episode brings back the humours Castle:

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CBS adds another comedy show to its Monday block with *2 Broke Girls*

2 Broke Girls (CBS) is a comedy about two very different girls, and when I say different I am not just talking about their looks, I mean language upbringing everything very much the opposite of each other.  This idea has been kinda done to death as well a show about two opposites but of course its been done to death because it always seems to work.

I was sceptical about this show before it started, from all the promos I thought it would be obvious jokes and humour and be easy watching but nothing else but I can honestly say that I am excited to see next week and I think the countdown or count up of money right at the end makes it more exciting too.  

The pilot starts off showing the basic life of Max, and well introducing us the audience to her humour and the characters she interacts with.  It doesnt take long for the audience to realise shes hard (hard as in you wouldn't wanna get on the wrong side of her because she will put you down so badly with her words) and that she works hard as well, doesn't take any of the shiz thrown at her but also knows when to roll with the punches (grabbing sauce from behind co-workers having sex).  

Then we meet the other half of the 2 broke girls with Caroline Channing, I've put in her surname because well we learn it almost instantaneously when Max discovers who she really is.  Caroline comes in with this amazing resume that said she has been a waitress at many a prestigious restaurant which of course makes Max curious about her but after minutes of talking to her discovers she has had waitress experience and that she is in fact the daughter of an Upper East Side  fraudster and so has basically been shunned from money and society.  I didn't think Caroline would have a sarcastic side but she holds her won against Max and almost puts her in her place which leads Max to tell Caroline more about herself than she usually does to new people.  

Both girls have their own smarts as well, Max makes delicious cupcakes for the diner but because of her lack of confidence doesn't know she can charge more for them, which of course is when Caroline comes in with the genius plan of saving up money to build a cupcake business together since she has had the fancy business school education.  This idea works itself into the closing credits when we have the counting of money to show at the end of each episode how much money they have now saved, Caroline says it will take a year to get the $250,000 so that's the aim.

The supporting cast are really kept in the sidelines but the good thing is we don't need more focus on them because both leads are enjoyable to watch, but the supporting team do bring the laughs we have the chef Oleg, the 'recently or not so recently immigrant from China who wishes to be more like the neighbourhood' boss of the diner Bryce (formally Han) Lee,  the I don't actually know what he does but he site at the front of the diner maybe he is the music man but his name is Earl and he seem to be rather cool, and to finish it off the other boss who is a society housewife in Manhattan Peach who is the worst stereotype of bimbo housewife which makes it tragically funny.

I will be sticking with the comedy, its a good companion piece for How I Met Your Mother plus its another show abased in one of my favourite cities in the world NYC! So here is a promo below check it out and see if you would like to enjoy it too:

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