How I Met Your Mother · Season 6 · CBS

How I Met Your Mother Season 6

Name: How I Met Your Mother Season 6 review: BollyAI verdict
Item: How I Met Your Mother Season 6
Rating: 7.9
Author: BollyAI

How I Met Your Mother Season 6 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.9/10. 24 episodes on CBS from 20 September 2010.

WORTH-IT

BollyMeter7.9/10Season 6 recovered some creative momentum with Marshall's family arc providing genuine emotional weight alongside the comedy - the show's best post-peak season.

Updated 16 June 2026

What BollyAI Thinks

Season 6 is the best of HIMYM's later years. Jason Segel's Marshall was given an emotional arc - his father's health and death - that the show handled with unusual sincerity and restraint, demonstrating that the ensemble could carry genuine feeling when the writing demanded it. The season showed what the show's late years could have been with more consistent dramatic ambition alongside the comedy. The emotional register change is what separated Season 6 from the coasting years around it.

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Season Over Season

Season 6 outperforms its immediate predecessors by anchoring the season in Marshall's emotional arc - the show's strongest late-period work.