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How I Met Your Father

How I Met Your Father season 1

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Kristin Smith

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Sophie is just your average, 29-year-old love-story-obsessed girl next door. 

You’d think that for a woman who fantasizes about her perfect soulmate, she would have drawn some inspiration from her parents. Not so. Her mom is still bouncing around from boyfriend to boyfriend and her dad has never been in the picture. But just because her relational role models weren’t that great, that doesn’t mean Sophie’s given up on love. Sure, she might spend most of her evenings scrolling through texts from old love interests while singing Train’s “Drops of Jupiter.” But that’s just a way to pass the lonely hours in The Big Apple. 

And there have been plenty of lonely hours. So many, in fact, that Sophie is officially done with Tinder dates. She’s done with the lame men who are more interested in sex than in an honest conversation. 

And then she meets Ian. Perfect, marine biologist Ian. Soon, Sophie and Ian have shared hours upon hours of text messages, phone calls and FaceTime dates, but now it’s finally time to meet in person. 

So, Sophie hops in an Uber to meet her soulmate. But when she meets Ian for dinner, he tells her that he’s moving to Australia. That night. Crushed, Sophie is left right where she started. Love-less, hopeless and now, phone-less. 

Yeah, she sort of accidentally swapped phones with her overly opinionated Uber driver, Jesse. But that one fateful mishap turns into the greatest accident of Sophie’s life. And that is where her real story begins. 

Let Me Tell You A Story 

How I Met Your Father is Hulu’s standalone sequel to the long-running award-winning sitcom, How I Met Your Mother. This time around, the story begins in 2055, where an older Sophie calls her son to tell him about the story of how she met his father back in 2022. Though her son might protest the many sexual stories Sophie shares, she doesn’t want to leave out a single detail in the greatest love story of her life. 

Just like the 2005 original, the identity of the father isn’t given right away. Instead, the “suspense” is doled out episode by episode. And, along the way, viewers learn about Sophie and the people who become her best friends. 

Jesse–that awkward, opinionated and highly pessimistic Uber driver–becomes a prime player in Sophie’s story, and soon becomes one of her closest pals. Valentina is Sophie’s sexually promiscuous best friend and roommate who spends her time living it up as a stylist assistant. Charlie, Valentina’s British boyfriend, is just trying to acclimate to life in New York after he leaves his posh life in Europe. Sid, Jesse’s best friend, is the owner of Pemberton bar and is engaged to a doctor while trying to make their long-distance relationship work. And Ellen is Jesse’s lesbian sister who has just moved from Iowa to New York City to recover from her divorce. 

Each episode features these friends as they grow, bond and figure out what love really means. And in doing so, this series earns its TV-14 rating. Sex, while not explicit in this first episode, is both discussed and implied between hetero- and homosexual couples. Sexual jokes make up the majority of most every discussion and profane language is scattered throughout. 

This new series takes notes from its predecessor all while adding some “inclusive” sex obsessed touches of its own.

Episode Reviews

Jan.18, 2022: “Pilot”

In the present, an aged Sophie tells her son the story of the first day she met his father in 2022; In the past, Sophie thinks she’s found the love of her life but is deterred from confessing her love when she realizes she’s been a part of an accidental phone swap.

A man tells a woman he just had sex with another woman, right as he’s showing up for their date. Men and women alike make plenty of jokes about sex and sexual activites, such as masturbation, pornography, prostitution, phone sex and male genitalia. A few women sport cleavage-baring tops and crop tops. A man walks out of his room completely naked, although his genital region is covered. A woman jokes about her divorce to her lesbian wife and says she wants to now flirt with more women.

Valentina makes a joke about seeing three separate men on the subway urinate, defecate and drop dead. A man makes a crude joke about the hopelessness of marriage and the probability of divorce. 

God’s name is misused once. People use words like “dn,” “h,” “dmit,” “bch” and “p-ss.” Men and women alike consume beer, hard liquor, wine and champagne.

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Kristin Smith

Kristin Smith joined the Plugged In team in 2017. Formerly a Spanish and English teacher, Kristin loves reading literature and eating authentic Mexican tacos. She and her husband, Eddy, love raising their children Judah and Selah. Kristin also has a deep affection for coffee, music, her dog (Cali) and cat (Aslan).

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