What I’m Watching: How I Met Your Father

How I Met Your Father: Season 2, Episode 4 “Pathetic Deirdre” (B)

I did not recognize Eden Sher, an actress who I first knew from her role in the underrated “Sons and Daughters” and who is best known for starring in “The Middle,” as Pathetic Deirdre, and that could be because I thought she was much younger than she actually is (just a few years younger than me. It feels like Sophie and Valentina should have realized that they were not good people and that they were just using her to make themselves feel better about themselves (which they admitted), but that made it fun when they found out that she thought of them in the same way. The crowd did turn on her eventually, but there were no parts of that reading that felt good. Charlie’s attempts to move on from Valentina didn’t work out so well since his breakup gift basket was interpreted by his first hookup, who he thought he might give a chance until she was furious to see the delivery of many such baskets to the bar. Ellen’s “Rich City Bitch Ellen” routine wasn’t all that entertaining, and I feel like this show is capable of being funny without showing its characters falling from ceiling vents after walking up fifty-plus flights of stairs on their first day of their work. Meredith shutting down all of Jesse’s notes as she presents their breakup and reconnection to her followers wasn’t surprising, and unfortunately Sid speaking his mind to look out for his best friend had the opposite effect of what he wanted. He’ll surely see sometime soon, but Sid can’t be the one to tell him that anymore since he’s not at all interested in listening.