Hilary Duff is tired of Tinder dates in the first How I Met Your Father trailer
The highly anticipated series hits Hulu on January 18
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The first trailer for Hulu’s How I Met Your Father is here. The comedy series, which will premiere on Hulu on January 18, stars Hilary Duff as a single woman in New York City who’s tired of terrible dates and ready for love.
Structured the same way as CBS’ longtime hit How I Met Your Mother, the series features Kim Cattrall as an older version of Duff’s Sophie, telling her children how she met their father. Cattrall reveals in voiceover that the show picks up in 2022, where it’s “hard to live in the moment.” Sophie has a large gang of friends and complains to them about the 87 Tinder dates she’s been on. The trailer shows the friends getting into all sorts of thirty-something hijinks.
The series also stars Christopher Lowell, Francia Raisa, Tom Ainsley, Tien Tran, and Suraj Sharma, and features recurring stars Daniel Augustin, Ashley Reyes and Josh Peck.
Duff was available for the show partially because Disney+ canceled its own attempt at a show about a young blonde woman in New York City dealing with life and love—the Lizzie McGuire reboot. Duff hinted that Disney decided to pull the plug on the revival because it would have “adult themes.”
How I Met Your Mother ended in 2014 with an extremely controversial final season, and it took years to get a sequel series off the ground. At the time, CBS produced a pilot for How I Met Your Dad, which starred a pre-Lady Bird Greta Gerwig. The project was shelved indefinitely.
Another spin-off attempt was made in 2017, but ultimately fell-through. The new rendition of How I Met Your Father was ordered straight to series earlier in 2021. It’s not clear if HIMYF’s characters will have any connection to the HIMYM gang.
How I Met Your Father is written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, who also co-showrun This Is Us and Love, Victor. They also executive produce the show alongside HIMYM creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and Pam Fryman and Adam Londy. Duff is also a producer.
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The header image says it all, really. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but all I need is one: nope!
Is there something wrong with that particular picture that she looks like she just got back from vacation on the sun?
It’s like the cast got the instruction, “Hey, do something funny for a still shot! Like, not actually funny, but like it could pass for funny on a misty day.”
I was thinking it looked like everyone in the picture was at a different party.
It was okay until I realized that the silvery thing near her right hand was just some unidentifiable shiny item in the background rather than a bottle of vodka she was carrying around by the neck, as if to say “hanging around with these people requires periodic mouth-to-Goose resuscitation.”Also, bobbing for apples seemed like a vaguely disgusting activity even before the pandemic.
“The highly anticipated series hits Hulu on January 18″“Highly anticipated” is pushing it. I’d say “cautiously anticipated” at best, “actively dreaded” at worst.
Seriously. I read this headline and thought, Are we really doing this, society?
I give it one season.
They failed at it once already.
I mean, I can see myself being adequately entertained by it.Although I’m definitely fearing it will run for 9 fucking seasons and keep me marginally hooked (in spite of very diminishing returns) with the promise of some satisfying conclusion and then… well, we all know what happened.
To save time, can we kill off all the characters at the end of season one? Because this looks wretched.
And, as my grindingly pedantic parents would point out, that only works if you use the recent definition of “anticipated”, which has replaced the older meaning of “to do something before its appointed time”.
“Anticipation” has meant “looking forward to” for at least 50 years. I question your parent’s definition of “recent”.That said, I respect the pedantry.
I think my parents would be quite happy if the world were more like it was fifty years ago. They’re not exactly hip, forward thinkers.
not a fan of the darkies are they?
On the lifespan of words, 50 years is often still considered ‘recent’
Are they going to kill the dad during the series finale?
Oh Kim Cattrall, you can read the phonebook to me and I’ll be happy.
Hi, Crow!
Want a shirt? I can’t give these damn things away.
The best sex, in the city!
they should have just made Chris Lowell Piz
I wonder if this iteration of the show will be just as misogynistic and slut-shamey as HIMYM.
Yes, the 20 years later and gender swapped one will be designed with things that have aged poorly on purpose, because that is very smart.
The original show only ended eight years ago, not twenty, and was gross up until the end. I knew better eight years ago, and the showmakers should have as well. So you can take your sarcasm and shove it.
I mean the show did always have some pretty problematic views on women. Robin and Lily were always considered “not like other girls”, especially Robin, and Lily was considered more of a “girls girl” so she ended up being a shopaholic who put her husband in debt because WOMEN, am I right?The hot/crazy scale, the women of the week, Barney…It’s just…it will be interesting to see how they write a show centered on a female character. Will she and her friends be “not like other girls”. The “cool girls” that the showrunners seemed to think were the only girls worthwhile?
I for one hope it is, except when Kim is describing it the kids keep butting in with how problematic and disturbing her stories are
So a spin-off to a 2005 show that isn’t that fondly remembered and whose “breakout character” aged horrifically (or rather people just noticed that the charismatic misogynist is still just a misogynist) that really tries to look exactly the same as the 2005 show in the weird slightly out of focus, too high contrast look except for the really obvious lack of a soundtrack.Yeah, this is going to go super well…
HiMYM is a great example of a show that should have ended much sooner than it did.
Like, after the first episode.
I think that it had a charming few seasons. But the last few reminded me of every other sitcom that has run out of gas but continues to make cash.
Still remember how it would have a new love interest every seasons simply because they never expected to be renewed so had no arcs outside each woman would’ve been “The Mother” if it got cancelled and then in the end they completely ballsed up the landing to reveal you’d just watched nine seasons of Ted wanting to bang his kid’s pseudo-aunt with their permission.
“Kids, you’ve listened to me go on about why I can’t bone your aunt for 9 years now, so…. How’s that sound now?”
“Sure, Dad, but can we circle back to how weirdly similar Mom and Aunt Lily looked?”
They kinda shot themselves in the foot with having Victoria introduced so early, and then so unsuccessfully brought back later in the show. That said, Cristin Milioti is so winning in the final season that she at least works.
My recollection is that when they brought Victoria back in the last episode of season seven, they believed they had one season left, and my guess was it was going to turn out all along that Victoria had been the mother. But then they got a surprise renewal for one additional season (which also meant Smulders couldn’t be a regular on Agents of SHIELD as planned), so they had to do something else.
Good god. And then they still saddled themselves with that ending.
As long as they could have kept Cristin Milioti’s run in. It was the middle seasons that really dragged, but when she showed up it was briefly excellent again (before the sucky final episode).
I never really warmed to her, and I think it’s because the series dragged on for so long. By the time they got to whatever season she showed up in, my attitude was: “Why should I care about this one? What makes this MPDG more special than all the others he’s dated?”I’ve seen her in other things, though, and she’s a great actress, so it makes me think that if she were introduced in season 4 I may have been more receptive.
But only her scenes here excellent. Every other storyline/scene in that season was awful. So the lesson is just put Milioti in everything and it will be better.
It’s worked for everything she’s been in so far.
The Big Bang Theory would like a word…
I was a big fan of the show during its run (I am a sucker for an ensemble comedy of young adults living in the big city — see: Friends, Happy Endings, and any number of similar shows), but even when new episodes were airing, I found myself more excited to rewatch the DVDs of the first few seasons than I was to watch new episodes. All of the characters just became very unlikable as the seasons went on.It really was a victim of its own success. It kept getting renewed, even after they were out of ideas, so it all just became filler.
The series definitely had some really beautiful moments, and some of the pairings had real chemistry (Ted and Robin in S2 were fantastic, and Ted and Tracy/The Mother lived up to all of the hype, tragic as it ended). I’m an outlier in that I didn’t mind the ending of the show. I thought it all made sense considering the story they were actually telling throughout the series, but the last season was structurally a mess (2 days over 20+ episodes, then ~15 years in 1); just awful pacing. A lot of it’s jokes have aged pretty poorly too, and the less Barney Stinsons we have on TV the better.
I miss the rhythms of a good multi-cam sitcom, and am kind of hoping for another hangout sitcom like Friends or HIMYM with good romantic elements, but I don’t know if we’re ever really going to get a show that captures the peaks of those shows ever again.
I was recently on a plane and didn’t want to pay THIRTY FIVE BUCKS for wifi (United!) so I binged season 3 of HIMYM, and man, the run of five eps that I watched was just a murderers row of a quality sitcom. From Spoiler Alert through Slapsgiving and a few more, it was basically a 100% hit rate.I will say while season 5 was the nadir for me, I feel like season 8, when the home stretch was in sight, that the quality picked up considerably. And I didn’t hate the last season either.But man, talk about not aging well… It wasn’t THAT long ago, but if any writer pitched “The Naked Man” now they would be immediately cancelled.
It’s very fondly remembered outside of Rose Twitter.
Lol did you dismiss a non-grey reply that wasn’t trolling? What a fucking loser.
The problem was there was no way they were ever going to top Victoria/Ashley Williams’ line read on “Oh thank god!” when Ted figured out where she worked. It was a spectacular television moment, and as soon as it was broadcast, no resolution that wasn’t “Ted and Buttercup, happily ever after” was going to be satisfying.Also, the chemistry between Smulders and Harris was off the charts. And not just the chemistry, but the characters as developed in the first couple seasons were much more sympatico than Robin ever could be with Ted. The writers kept trying to break them up and kept failing. They learned the wrong lesson from Moonlighting and BSG — they figured they must at all costs stick to the plan, because they saw what happened when people made it up as they went along. But no plan survives contact with the enemy. (The enemy, in this case, being the audience.)
Ironically I think it would’ve been fondly remembered, it just had one of the worst endings to a series ever and turned everybody against it. It’s kind of amazing in a sense. As I was typing this comment I was trying to think of another show where the finale tainted the whole show’s history/legacy like HIMYM did and I’m really coming up with nothing.
Game of Thrones…an ending so bad you blocked the whole thing out.
Dexter.
I thought of that one but I think the difference is that (if I remember right) a lot of people were already pretty sick of Dexter before the finale, whereas with HIMYM I think a lot of people the consensus was that it had gone on a bit too long but was still pretty good overall before the finale. But again, maybe my recollection is off
That’s definitely how I felt about HIMYM! I was never into Dexter myself so couldn’t tell you for sure if that was as hard a turn in the final episode vs a general decline, but my memory of the time was that folks were sufficiently upset at where he ended up that they were saying it made the journey not worth it, which seems analogous, if less extreme than the way that the last 20 minutes of HIMYM’s run utterly annihilated its goodwill.Similarly, we also have Game of Thrones and Battlestar Galactica, though these were more a “final season decline” than a “final episode” one.
(I actually liked the BSG ending fine, but some folks felt really betrayed that they had tuned in for years to see the promised-in-every-opening-credits-sequence Cylon “Plan” — those robots might have had one, but the showrunners’ plan ended up more like “this imagery is cool, retrofit it into something before we wrap the series”)
Game of Thrones
But look at that trailer! It was filled with vaguely joke-shaped items.
I think HIMYM worked as well as it did because the rest of the cast was great.
Sure why not.
Counterpoint: Not sure! Why???
No, money down!
Counter-counterpoint: Oh God, Why?!
Tonight on Crossfire!
Crossfire. Is that the new reality show on FOX about school shootings or is that the one that follows a Klan member around as he burns crosses on people’s lawns, also on FOX.
Yes!!!
Spoiler alert: It’s Pete Davidson.
I think it would be a ballsy move to do a whole bunch of series (How I Met Your Father, How Dad and I Met, The Day Your Father and I First Got Together, etc.), each with a different protagonist/friend group in a different city… and all of them end with Pete Davidson as the father.
Nah, the twist will be that Pete Davidson is married to the Kim Cattrell version of the main character as this version’s “Aunt Robin”.
Thanks, I just threw up a little.
Just trying to help.
“And that’s how I met your father, kids… the rest of this story is a harrowing and gritty drama about my meth addiction.”
So he has a bit part in the Machine Gun Kelly biopic?
Somehow I feel like this version of the show won’t have the main character telling kids about the endless number of people they banged.
Alright alright, I’ll date you Hilary Duff.
Take one for the team, buddy!
I was a sporadic HIMYM watcher, meaning that I watched a fair amount of episodes out of order in syndication. So, when the finale rolled around I was up-to-date enough on the show. The finale was terrible. My wife and I discussed watching the show as a pandemic watch (comedy, 30 min episodes, 9 seasons – should be perfect), but we each keep finding something else to watch. I suspect that is because the show did not age well.That being said, an update could be good, especially if its not just a gender-swapped new coat of paint. I am not sure this is it and I am not sure how “highly anticipated” it is, but righting some wrongs could be a good move.
Hilary Duff grew up to be Kim Cattrall? Who do they expect to believe this stuff?
It’s pretty funny to think that Greta Gerwig nearly ended up starring on a CBS sitcom, and it was CBS that said no.
One of the things that’s aged the worst about HIMYM (besides the flip phones, clothes, and casual misogyny) is when they reference “current” technology, like MySpace pages. I still enjoy rewatching the early seasons, but kinda wish they’d future proofed it a little more with their tech choices. In five years, if anyone’s watching How I Met Your Father, will Tinder seem hilariously outdated?
What IS cool is that any time anyone on HIMYM mentioned a website, that URL actually existed and as far as I can tell the pages are still up.
I remember HIMYM bashing online dating as something only desperate people did in its first few seasons
“It was hard to make a connection in 2022. It was a confusing time. The Pandemic had suddenly disappeared completely, leading people to stop wearing masks and social distancing immediately.”(Realistically, I’m happy to watch TV that doesn’t mention COVID at all, but it’s funny to hear them specifically tie this show to a year that will be in the middle of a continuing global health crisis.)
That trailer feels like something from an alternate universe. Tinder dates are this girl’s biggest problem?
Based on the trailer it doesn’t look like there’s anything in this show that elevates it beyond all the other shows/movies about young people trying to find love in New York. This seems like something that’s been sitting on the shelf for at least five years.
SURE Hillary Duff. Try to make her work. The most talented actors are the ones famous only for a show named after them.
As someone not familiar with the How I Met universe, I’m questioning if the show is supposed to look like it takes place in an overlit, artificial nightmare version of New York? Like, I assume the premise is: Kim Cattrall hits her head, and this show is some kind of surreal, dying vision?
and then the camera pulls back to reveal, it’s a snow globe.
As someone not familiar with the How I Met universe, I’m questioning if the show is supposed to look like it takes place in an overlit, artificial nightmare version of New York? Like, I assume the premise is: Kim Cattrall hits her head, and this show is some kind of surreal, dying vision?
Because so many elements of How I Met Your Mother aged as poorly as they did—with Barney Stinson being far from the only major culprit—and with the finale as miscalculated as it was, I think it’s easy to forget how inventive and how funny and how affecting that show could be. If there is the same creative energy behind this new show, then it could be really special.Plus, as a person of a certain age, I’m pulling for Hillary Duff.
Double entendre noted.Yeah, it really rode the line between heart and laughs better than any other sitcom I can think of. (Taxi, maybe.)
That picture is trying way too hard.
Oh wow. Even the trailer is painful to watch. So much cringe.
Duff was available for the show partially because Disney+ canceled its own attempt at a show about a young blonde woman in New York City dealing with life and love—the Lizzie McGuire reboot. Duff hinted that Disney decided to pull the plug on the revival because it would have “adult themes.”Seriously, Disney? One of the biggest media companies in history is still scared to make entertainment that doesn’t cater to children? Nobody’s asking for an HBO-type ADULT series, just that you allow things like “30-something Lizzie McGuire deals with age-appropriate issues” to exist.
How I Met Your Mother had a stacked cast (NPH, Allison Hanigan, Jason Segel). This cast seems pretty weak in comparison, in terms of name recognition, hopefully if it’s good it finds an audience.