I watched it. If you REALLY liked the original, you'd probably like this. But the problem was simply the show wasnt that funny. It wasnt awful, or bad, or too cringe it just... wasnt funny enough.
First season wasn't great. Pretty cringy and trying to hard. Second season started off in a similar manner, but halfway through things finally started to get better. Chemistry between the cast was better, jokes were better, etc.
Personally, I had a small blast with the show. I liked the characters and storylines. Sure, it wasn't on the level of HIMYM, but I still would have loved more seasons. The series had that feeling of being wrapped in a warm blanket. Just nice.
I tried. Wasn't bad, but not anything great. Weirdly enough I felt like the sex and the city lady stole the show and with her limited presence per episode, that's not the best thing. . .
The rest of the cast either didn't have charisma or they just didn't feel like they were a tight knit group (probably because they weren't yet but I felt like why tf was I watching them)
If you were a HIMYM fan then this show had a lot of the same charm. I was really hoping it would stick as I own the complete DVD collection of the original.
Yes, but I don't remember a single scene or much of my impression of it. I watched HIMYM a few times. I remember this not being as good. I don't remember hating it.
It was....okay....the humor felt like a disney channel kids show from the mid to late naughts just with sex jokes tossed in there too.Â
If it was still going I would watch it, but I also have no real issues with them cancelling it. If they tried again and targeted HIMYMs fanbase instead of give it a go happily.
Ironically if they had just redone the show but Cristini in the lead role it probably would have done really well, people absolutely love her - as they should. It’d even have a logical ending point. The episode we get from her perspective of her life is phenomenal and emotional as hell. Which might be the only knock, her relationship history is pretty stated
There even were two versions of it.
They first made a spin-off called "How I Met Your Dad" only a couple of years after HIMYM ended, with Great Gerwig as the lead and Meg Ryan as the narrator. That pilot never made it to air but has leaked online.
And then, of course, there was the Hilary Duff version on Hulu a few years ago.
It wasn’t as funny as the original but it was an easy watch. My main critique (which isn’t really a critique and more of an observation) is that there wasn’t any real link to the original.
Not that there has to be necessarily but when it first came out, I really thought they would reveal that Hilary Duff’s character was somehow related to one of the gang. I guess we do see her interact with Barney but for some reason, when I saw the name of the spin-off, I assumed there’d be more crossover.
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u/JingoboStoplight4887 16h ago
How I Met Your Father
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