In case you haven’t noticed, we’re stuck in reboot hell. Over the past year alone, viewers have been subjected to a near-constant influx of announcements for new iterations of Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, Saved by the Bell, iCarly, Dexter, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Degrassi. In this nostalgic, cynical era of entertainment, nothing, not even a show as beloved as How I Met Your Mother, is sacred. So it should bode well that, according to its creators, How I Met Your Father isn’t exactly a reboot—it’s a sequel. How I Met Your Father, premiering on Hulu January 18, isn’t the first HIMYM spin-off. Back in 2014, HIMYM’s creators took their first stab at a gender-swapped version of the hit show, set to star Greta Gerwig and Meg Ryan, but its pilot was never picked up. This latest attempt is helmed by This Is Us showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, with HIMYM’s creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas as executive producers, and stars Houston-born Hilary Duff as thirtyish Sophie—a photographer and hopeless romantic on a streak of bad Tinder dates. While it may be a sequel, the distinction isn’t enough to save HIMYF from falling victim to plenty of reboot pitfalls. The show exists in the same universe as its predecessor, with a few fun references to the original sprinkled in early on. But sometimes, the callbacks and jokes feel like nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. When the scales are tipped too far, you end up with plot lines and dialogue that border on cheesy and saccharine. Still, the four episodes made available to critics add up to an easy watch that shows promise. In the pilot, we’re introduced to Sophie as she gears up for her eighty-eighth Tinder date of 2022. (The show takes place in a pandemic-free fall.) In her rideshare, she meets Jesse (Chris Lowell), a cynical musician and Uber driver recovering from an embarrassing breakup, and his best friend Sid (Suraj Sharma), a bar owner who’s planning on proposing to his long-distance girlfriend. Sophie’s roommate and best friend, Valentina (Francia Raisa), is an assistant stylist who’s figuring things out with her new fling, Charlie (Tom Ainsley), a recently disowned British aristocrat who followed her to New York. Rounding out the group is Ellen (Tien Tran), Jesse’s estranged adopted sister who’s looking for a fresh start after divorcing her wife. Viewers also meet Kim Cattrall as future Sophie, who’s regaling her off-screen son with the tale of how she met his father. It’s a welcome switch-up from HIMYM, in which we never actually see Bob Saget as the voice of older Ted. Recreating the magic that made the original the perfect mix of funny, endearing, and sentimental is a tall order. When HIMYM began its final season in 2013, it was dominating the sitcom world, raking in roughly 10.5 million viewers per episode.


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