How I Met Your Father

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Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 18, 2022
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
3.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 22
  3. Negative: 14 out of 22
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  1. CPD98
    Jan 18, 2022
    0
    Hey look at us, we are in 2022!: the show
    You'll laugh more in a funeral. Just skip this woke crap.
  2. bpmckenna
    Jan 21, 2022
    1
    Boring - and Hilary Duff is miscast here. None of the cast is particularly relatable and their acting is hammy like it's a Broadway (show instead of real life).
  3. bigpapa
    Mar 29, 2022
    3
    This was disappointing. You'd think that with big shoes to fill that they would change it up a little. Nup. I gave it a fairly good go and I understand that some shows need time to settle to shine but with so much great media available and with my time on this planet ever shortening ... nup. The location could have been moved, should have been moved. Chicago? New Orleans? I mean, SanThis was disappointing. You'd think that with big shoes to fill that they would change it up a little. Nup. I gave it a fairly good go and I understand that some shows need time to settle to shine but with so much great media available and with my time on this planet ever shortening ... nup. The location could have been moved, should have been moved. Chicago? New Orleans? I mean, San Francisco would have been great. But, nup. Let the world seen fake New York again. But it's deeper than just that.
    The casting is weird and, well, not relatable or that likeable. Chris Lowell, Francia Raisa and Suraj Sharma are good enough though Hilary Duff and Tom Ainsley are not. Whether it's their hammy performances or formulaic writing, who knows? I'm putting a fiver each way and saying it's both.
    Because I wanted it to be at least good, I'm probably just being sore. Kind of like the kid who on his birthday gets a "Super Exploring Soldier Guy" who's arms and legs don't bend instead of the Action Man he wanted.    … Expand

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Metascore
49

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 19
  3. Negative: 3 out of 19
  1. i
    Reviewed by: Ed Power
    May 11, 2022
    60
    The zingers are often gag-inducing and none of the characters remotely plausible. Yet the show sparkles with such exuberance and lack of cynicism that I found myself laughing at the inanity of it all. Twenty five minutes flew by and, while I didn’t love this creaking comedy, I can’t quite say I hated it either.
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  2. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Ciara Wardlow
    Jan 19, 2022
    40
    “How I Met Your Father” misses all of that spark and 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.
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  3. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jan 19, 2022
    40
    We've seen this story before and better versions of it since life moved on, making the writers' choice to retrace its dated habits so odd.
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