How I Met Your Father Falls Short But Still Deserves A Shot
How I Met Your Mother ran from late 2005 to 2013, and it goes without saying that the world has changed quite a lot since Ted Mosby finished telling his kids the story of how fate made him cross paths with their mom. Since then, not only has society moved at a blazingly fast pace, but the sitcom landscape has also evolved to leave behind many of the tropes that were present during that time in television.
While glorified comedic works such as Friends and Seinfeld still hold enough cultural significance so that their signings are huge wins for HBO Max and Netflix, respectively, the truth is that most successful sitcoms nowadays are rather different. Those contrasts go far beyond the ever-present laugh tracks of old, but in the age of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Schitt’s Creek, and Ted Lasso, what does How I Met Your Father really bring to the table that makes it worth watching?
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The setup for HIMYF takes after the original, with the caveat that future Sophie (Kim Catrall) is the one sitting on the couch talking to her (seemingly) only son instead of the late Bob Saget’s disembodied voice telling the story to his children. This could arguably be seen as an improvement, as the two teenagers rarely added much in the form of entertainment to HIMYM, whereas 2050’s Sophie could offer a better glimpse at how the character has grown since her romantic mishaps circa 2022.
Although these kinds of rules might be shaky, the pilot episode (co-written by HIMYM creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas) makes it clear that is the night Sophie meets her son’s dad. This statement then cuts to flashes of the show’s now truly diverse cast, which might explain why Catrall’s on-screen
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