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June 13, 2014

Read an exclusive excerpt from Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes from I Love Lucy to Community, out now from Chicago Review Press.

When Should a TV Show End?

By Michelle King

March 31, 2014

The series finale of How I Met Your Mother airs tonight, but should we have said goodbye years ago?

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