HIMYF: Who We Think The Father Is
Warning: Contains spoilers for How I Met Your Father episode 1.
With the arrival of How I Met Your Father, the long-awaited How I Met Your Mother spin-off, one obvious question stands out: who is the father in How I Met Your Father? In How I Met Your Mother, the mother, Tracy McConnell (Cristin Milioti) was not seen on screen until the season 8 finale and precipitated the controversial How I Met Your Mother series finale. How I Met Your Father, however, is taking a different approach to the mysterious titular identity.
In How I Met Your Father episode 1, the show introduces a large cast of characters centering around Sophie (Hilary Duff) across one evening. In the final moments of the episode, the version of Sophie in 2050 (Kim Cattrall) explains that she met the father that night. While How I Met Your Father does not clarify who the father is in that opening episode, flashes of four specific men she met that night appear on screen as she speaks. The four are Sid (Suraj Sharma), Jesse (Christopher Lowell), Ian (Daniel Augustin), and Charlie (Tom Ainsley).
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It seems safe to assume that one of the four will be the eventual father as for it to be someone else would be unfair to the viewer. While any of them could eventually come to be How I Met Your Father’s father, Christopher Lowell’s Jesse is the most likely choice. Within the first episode, he is the most clearly defined character, has a deeper connection with Sophie, and is shown to be working through his own cynicism about love after a previous breakup that will leave room for interesting storytelling. The other three possibilities all have properties that make them seem unlikely as the father’s
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