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How I Met Your Father (TV Series)

How I Met Your Father

2022

Isaac Aptaker (Creator), Elizabeth Berger (Creator) ...

Hilary Duff, Chris Lowell, Francia Raisa, Tien Tran ...

4.7

1,181

TV Series. Comedy TV Series (2022-2023). 2 Seasons. 30 Episodes. In the near future, Sophie tells her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options.

Canceled after its second season.

	Author	Review
United States	Liz Kocan Decider	"[2nd Season Review]: A show can't exist on comforting cameos alone"	NEG
United States	Chase Hutchinson Collider	"[2nd Season Review]: As it drags along, there is little that is unique to 'How I Met Your Father' —or, more importantly, anything that manages to get enough laughs to justify the investment"	NEG
Canada	Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"[2nd Season Review]: Season 2's narrative is scattered —so much so that older Sophie's teasing of what's to come doesn't fill one with excitement so much as indifference"	NEG
United States	Angie Han The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] tries to recreate some of [the original's] spark for 2022, and in some superficial aspects it succeeds. But in the ways that count most, it feels so far like a pale imitation."	NEU
United States	Caroline Framke Variety	"As is, 'How I Met Your Father' is just a bizarre exercise in recycling nostalgia for modern times without finding a way to be modern at all."	NEG
United States	Amy Amatangelo Paste Magazine	"[It] would be just another perfectly pleasant, often funny comedy. There’s nothing wrong with that. But it doesn’t have anything that makes it stand apart in a cluttered TV landscape the way 'HIMYM' did."	NEU
United States	Darren Franich Entertainment Weekly	"Hulu's dull spin-off is late to the party (...) [This is] a show that badly needs to just let its characters get to know each other"	NEG
United States	Ross Bonaime Collider	"It’s certainly not bad for the show to be more contemporary in its look at love in the present, but the way it does it at times feels jarring, as if the show is trying to prove that it’s not your parent’s sitcom."	NEU
United States	Valerie Ettenhofer SlashFilm	"It brings with it both the exhilaration of a brand new story, and the easy familiarity of one we already loved"	POS
United States	Inkoo Kang The Washington Post	"If 'How I Met Your Mother' triumphed in finding a balance between capturing the zeitgeist and achieving a timeless quality, 'How I Met Your Father' doesn’t seem to be channeling any era"	NEG
United States	Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times	"It's funny at times, and when it isn't funny, it is usually at least sweet, which is no small thing"	NEU
United States	Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"[It] may be more inclusive, but it completely misses what made the original sitcom such a blast in the first place (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"There are enough good things about the show to think it'll work eventually, but it might never click on all cylinders like the parent show did at its peak"	NEU
United States	Jennifer Keishin Armstrong The Wrap	"The best that can be said about 'How I Met Your Father' is that it makes us want to go watch 'How I Met Your Mother'. We didn't appreciate what we had then until we saw this"	NEG
United States	Petrana Radulovic Polygon	"Maybe 'How I Met Your Father' will only ever be a pale shadow of the original, but for me, it's evoked a specific feeling of nostalgia for old and wistfulness for what could be"	NEU
Canada	E.L. Meszaros CBR	"[It] hits the right notes of nostalgia, with references that are sure to please fans, and the show updates relationships and storylines for a modern audience."	POS
United States	Lauren Sarner New York Post	"[It] is hampered by its own tenuous and bafflingly unnecessary connection to the original series."	NEG
United States	Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"More amusing than funny (...) 'Father' neither treads interesting stylistic ground the way its predecessor did, nor presents characters or relationships that are nearly as engaging"	NEU
United Kingdom	Adrian Horton The Guardian	"'How I Met Your Father' feels more akin to a reheated, juiced-up leftover (...) [It] offers no reason to watch other than fondness for the original (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Gwen Ihnat AV Club	"We’ve already seen too many sitcom disaster-party episodes, or crazy-night-out-at-the-club episodes (...) to count, and that multi-cam/laugh track setup now seems even more dated than it did in the 2000s"	NEG
United States	Ciara Wardlow rogerebert.com	"'How I Met Your Father' feels like watching the copy of a copy of a copy. It’s enough to fulfill a nostalgic craving in the most superficial sort of way, but far too flimsy to do anything else"	NEG
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"This series feels particularly stale (...) Shot in a traditional sitcom format, the audience laughter frequently sounds more appreciative than the jokes deserve"	NEG

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