Watch this when
How I Met Your Mother: Where Were We? (S2E1)
Sweatpants, no showers, and a friend who won't let you beg them back. 🥞
Who it's for
Jason Segel's Marshall is one of TV's most honest portraits of being freshly dumped: in sweatpants, not leaving the house, crying at a stranger's engagement and looking for any thread connecting him to her.
Feelings it meets
What it is
The season 2 premiere of How I Met Your Mother, first aired September 18, 2006. Weeks after Lily left him, Marshall still hasn't left the apartment, and his friends each try to snap him out of it. When he discovers hotel charges on her credit card and a man answers the phone in her room, he wants to go and beg her back. Ted tells him that showing up in this state would ruin his chances.
Where to find it
Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch. Also available to buy digitally.
Before you start
Heads up: Strip-club scenes and sexual humour.
Age: Suggested 13+
I have not broken your heart—you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
