Of one spin off from How I Met Your Mother feminine declined was already spoken in 2014, when the original series closed its doors, leaving the public with the bitterness of an ending that did not live up to expectations. To carry out the project it took, however, seven years: it was necessary to cool the imagination of the screenwriters to search for new ideas and, above all, it was necessary to find a protagonist capable of embodying the sympathetic clumsiness of which that softie of Ted Mosby. The planets, as the sorcerers say, have, however, finally aligned, and have led to the birth of How I Met Your Father, the series written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berge is available on Disney + which starts from the same premise from which it started How I Met Your Motherthat is the tale of Sophie that, one fine day of 2050, tells his son how he met his father.
Sophie is portrayed by Hilary Duff which, after the shipwreck of revival from Lizzie McGuire ordered by Disney and aborted after the first promotional photos, find again in How I Met Your Father his freshness and his sympathy, ready to catapult us into 2021 to tell us about his group of friends, the search fortwin soul through the dating app and romantic adventures which, even after many years, deserve to be remembered. It goes without saying that the main reason that leads the viewer to give a chance to How I Met Your Father it is related to the infamous nostalgia effect of the original series, which, without a shadow of a doubt, was for the generation of the 2000s what Friends it was for the generation of Ninety. The references to the sit-com starring Ted, Robin, Barney, Marshall and Lily are, in fact, many, but everything is updated to the present day, including apps such as Tinder it’s a’inclusiveness – in the group of friends there are, among others, a black guy, an Asian girl and a gay girl – who was missing before.
The result is a series light but which, on several occasions, seems to rest a little too much on the laurels of How I Met Your Mother, choosing not to dare as he could. Beyond the presence of Kim Cattrall that, once and for all discarded the role of Samantha Jones of Sex and the Citylends her face to the mature Sophie who tells her son how she met her father, teverything moves on the track of the recognizability of the characters: from Sophie, a 29-year-old photographer who lives in Queens, to Charlie (Tom Ainsley), an elegant and naive Englishman who looks like a cartoon. In addition to the scarce references to the New York reality – the series is shot in Los Angeles – and the absence of a charismatic character like Barney Stinson – if there was anyone who deserved a spin-off, that was him -, it is clear that How I Met Your Father everything is based on the skill of Hilary Duff, an actress we forgot too soon and who brings out her brilliant talent here, reminding us why twenty years ago all producers competed to get her in the most disparate films. The result, we said, is an enjoyable story but which, perhaps, would have shone more if the writers had forgotten the original script by choosing to start completely from scratch.
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