How I Met Your Father Cancelled After 2 Seasons at Hulu
How I Met Your Father‘s titular mystery will go unsolved.
Hulu has cancelled the How I Met Your Mother sequel series after two seasons, TVLine has learned. The news comes less than two months after the Season 2 finale.
HIMYF picked up eight years after the events of the HIMYM finale, and focused on a new friend group consisting of Sophie (Younger‘s Hilary Duff), Jesse (Veronica Mars‘ Chris Lowell), Valentina (grown-ish‘s Francia Raisa), Charlie (The Royals‘ Tom Ainsley), Ellen (Space Force‘s Tien Tran) and Sid (God Friended Me‘s Suraj Sharma). The story was told from the perspective of a 58-year-old Sophie (played by Sex and the City‘s Kim Cattrall) — and unlike the original, the pilot established that our protagonist had already met the dad.
In the Season 2 finale, which will now have to serve as a series finale, Sophie got together with potential baby daddy Jesse, while Sid, another potential baby daddy, saw his marriage to Hannah implode. Additionally, the last scene set up a secondary mystery, revealing that Val and Charlie — who broke up in Season 1 because Charlie never wanted to have kids — eventually have a son named Alex.
Though largely a standalone series, HIMYF existed in the HIMYM universe, and featured cameos by original series stars Cobie Smulders (as Robin Scherbatsky) and Neil Patrick Harris (as Barney Stinson). A complete rundown of cameos, Easter eggs and future reveals can be found here.
HIMYF‘s cancellation caps the series’ run at 30 episodes. TVLine’s Streaming Scorecard has been updated.
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The writers better reveal the father. Don’t leave us hanging.
Some of the S1 writers were fired before season 2 and they spoiled a long time ago that the father was **spoiler alert** … Sid.
You could sort of pick that from about the third episode.
How so? I want to go back and watch it tonsee what I missed
What?! Well, maybe I don’t care then, lol
I feel like it’s Sid because we don’t see the son, and he and Hilary had chemistry. AND that marriage was never gonna last.`
I looked that up. I think you’ve fallen for trolling unless there’s something else I’m missing.
The only source I could find was that Dan Levy (The other one – Not from Schit’s Creek), was an opening act for John Mulaney and there was a part where said he worked on that show and said it was the Indian guy and joked that what could they do, fire him?
However, it seems that other people noted that in later shows, he kept the joke but was changing who it was. Sometimes people say he said “the Korean guy” and other variations.
So… Either it was planned to be Sid and he changed his mind (or forced) to start saying different things or he was just trolling people.
To be honest, reading up after the first season ended, my impression was that they never had any plan what so ever and were basically doing everything to make sure all the possibilities are open.
When did they reveal THAT?!
That’s exactly who I thought that it would be. Glad to know.
It’s a shame, but not a surprise! I thought Hilary Duff really came her own as an actress, and showed that she could carry a show!
She was great on Younger which I think now should go ahead with her spinoff.
She already did carry a show… Lizzie McGuire!
Not only carried it on screen but as a cartoon voice too! Twice the work.
What the hell?! So disappointing!
And I thought it did pretty well in streaming.
This is probably more about Hulu. It is probably going to be folded into Disney +. I’d assume this is either outside the content parameters of Disney, or there is a financial accelerator if it moves, or it has a different profit sharing model by the producers/creators etc.
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Point being, unless the show in question is a monster hit (ratings wise or awards wise), most of Hulu will probably get shuttered before the merger.
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Also, this is a way for the streaming services to punish the strikers. As the strike goes on, more and more shows will be cancelled. Anything that is a monster hit is safe, but anything short of that will get cut.
Exactly. The streamers are clearing the decks before the start of the new contract. (Whenever that is) This way no old show will have to pay the new rates. Peak Tv has certainly had an ugly end.
2nd season hasn’t received the same amount of buzz as the first no offence I love this show but s2 was awful wasn’t funny , the stories where basic , it was coming to and end anyway hence the happy endings at the end
It was one of the most watched original series across all streaming platforms during season 2, as well as season 1.
All streaming platforms? Isn’t it a Hulu original and only available on Hulu? It may be available on other platforms in other countries. But, I think it’s only on Hulu in the US.
Ok, I should not reply before I have more than 5 seconds to process what I read. I realize you meant when comparing HIMYF to other originals across other platforms. I originally interpreted it to mean HIMYF was one of the most watched shows on all platforms. Nevermind!
Noooooo. Season two wasn’t as good as season one, but it was still really enjoyable! *sigh*
I’m sorry about this, because I liked the characters and actors, and fun sitcoms are few and far between these days. But the writing was nowhere near as sharp and funny as on the original “HIMYM.” (Or as engaging as on Hilary Duff’s previous show, “Younger.”) Let’s hope everyone goes on to success in the future.
the problem with this show is that this friendship group always felt incompatible imo, but I still watched it through because Hilary is such a great actress. I did dislike that she was a photographer because you could that character wasn’t a photographer..poor writing and directing. Hopefully Lizzie McGuire can get back on track.
I don’t think that the issue was anything with Hilary Duff’s availability. She wanted it to be more grown up and Disney didn’t. They couldn’t reach a deal and so the reboot was scrapped. Unless that changes, I don’t think the reboot will happen.
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I do not like how you couldn’t keep this racist opinion to yourself
Yikes. Ok, racist..
You’re #$&%ing disgusting, James. Cancel yourself immediately, please.
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Please shut up.
…you’re kidding with that last comment. Please tell me you’re kidding.
Wow, guess I missed a really horrible comment before it was removed. Good work by the moderators.
Nooooooooo!!!! Ugh, this show got really good in season 2.
Ugh it’s so hard to invest in shows these days. You have to come out swinging and can’t have slow burns anymore. If shows like Schitt’s Creek came out on platforms like Hulu, it would have been cancelled after 2 seasons. It feels like traditional comedies are on a death bed nowadays…
I don’t think that is necessarily true. I just think HIMYM fans had a quality expectation for HIMYF. That expectation sadly came up short. Had the show stood on its own it might have struggled to build the initial audience, but might have retained its audience better.
Great point. The easter eggs alluding to the OG HIMYM seems to have been what really drove fan interest, and that is unsustainable.
Personally I never welcomed those easter eggs because they never gave this show the chance to become its own. Even though from the beginning it was stated that it has nothing to do with HIMYM the creators themselves kept pushing those old characters upon us and that obviously pulled focus from the new story and kept throwing all of the viewers back into the HIMYM times which was a disservice to HYMYF.
That was ridiculous that they said it had nothing to do with the original when characters live in the same apartment from HIMYM as revealed in the pilot. They wanted to be different and the same at the same time and it never fully clicked.
I also love how it is “inspired by” in the credits , but it is in the same timeline as Mother so it should be “based upon” but I think accounting didn’t want to pay the original creators that much. It always drove me crazy why they credited it that way.
Honestly, the show should of been told by Tracy, how she met ted, with Easter eggs being old footage. Could of even went as far as showing her living her life with ted and her younger children, Ala cobra kia
If you saw the end of HIMYM it wouldn’t really work since Tracy…. Spoiler alert (fair game)… dies. Which is why it’s one of the most hated series finales ever.
Master K, I think it could have worked. Tracy died when the kids were young. We could have seen what she was doing before she met Ted, when she met Ted, and then…you know, some of their actual relationship. They had two kids. So, there would have been some time we could have seen that actually showed their time together before she died. That’s part of the reason I hated the finale. We never got to see much of Ted with “the mother.” If the point of the show was how Ted met his kids’ mother, we should have had more of a payoff to actually get to see them together. I’m not sure how much interest there would have been in this concept as so many fans were annoyed at the ending. But, I would have been less mad at the HIMYM finale when the mother died had the audience actually gotten to see some of their time together. In fact, her death is a good reason for Ted to be telling his children how he met their mother. But, if we had seen more of their relationship in the last season, instead of that pointless season about Robin and Barney’s wedding, I would have actually thought it was good storytelling. But, their life together was relegated to a few voiceover scenes and we saw that Ted really just wanted to go ask out Robin. Ridiculous.
HIMYM wouldn’t have survived today. They were on the bubble for a couple of seasons and were saved by a Britney Spears guest spot. Most classic comedies, like Seinfeld, Friends or The Office, did not start out big hits. They grew into it. Now you have to be a hit show immediately or you are out and that is why we barely have any comedies anymore and the series nominated for “comedy” are half hour dramas. The Bear and Barry are comedies now.
Will be so annoyed if The Bear wins. It is more drama than comedy.
Pretty much every drama these days are slow burns.
No shopping it around?
Hulu always felt like an odd fit given it the original was always branded CBS/paramount.
Paramount lately has had a horrible habit of licensing its most recognizably cbs/paramount associated brands to rival companies.
Not that odd, the Original was owned by 20th Century Fox ,
Just because a show aired on CBS doesn’t mean Paramount own it.
Yeah, other than being a 3 camera show it was honestly a surprise to be a cbs sitcom
So sad… I enjoyed the show.
One of Hulu’s few shows to actually hit the Neilsen top 10 and they cancel it.
That’s too bad. I actually enjoyed the show.
Any chance they shop it?
Hulu are really taking all the wrong decisions lately. First they axed a show like The Great that had talent such as Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult and was a TV series that recieved 7 Emmy nominations earlier this week. And now they also go and cancel HIMYF? Do they want to push away their customers or what? Lemme guess: this is more colateral damage because of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes right? The ones Hulu could help a little bit if, geez I don’t know, if they actually payed the writers and actors a fair deal? Gross.
I also wonder if this is really because of the strikes and they can’t keep people under contract or they can’t work in other capacities in order to pay their bills.
I think its a combo of streaming services realising that that streaming isn’t going to be the big money earner that they hoped it would and the Strikes.
They need too much content to keep it appealing to subscribers so they signup and stay signed up and the production quality of originals has taken a step up across the board this increasing cost, not to mention that originals largely now have weaker secondary revenue streams, previously the outlet could pay a fraction of the production costs as the studio would make it back on reruns, international and home media but those are largely now gone. Cutting originals that aren’t monster hits hence makes sense as they aren’t really ever green content, even if its a weekly release you get maybe a month or two of it driving subs from most originals.
And then with the Strike, if they renew it they will need to take up the actors and writers options which means paying them while they strike. There are also other people who will have to be paid and other costs keeping a production going while they can’t film. Cancelling it removes these costs.
It’s why while Stephen Amell got stick he is kind of right. The strike damages a lot of shows, shows which provide a living for many people in the kind of income range that they claim they are trying to help. If you can’t promote shows then getting a show off the bubble is tough and when shows can’t produce more content but have a cost the bubble gets wider dragging more shows into it. We will see many more shows, especially on streaming cancelled because the strike and we are unlikely to see the same level of new content being commissioned because that was likely to reduce anyway. So they may get a better deal coming out of the strikes, especially for the big names already making big money but I’m not sure they will see net gains made for people at the lower end of both professions.
Sorry for the fans who enjoyed it. I had personally decided to jump off after season 2, but it still sucks when people lose a show they like. I am curious if they release a wrap up event or statement to resolve the shows underlying mystery.
Pretty disappointed. I know shows cannot last forever, but in some cases, the networks and streamers need to give earlier notice to the writers/ producers, so they can give proper closure to the stories.
In this case, we don’t get to ever find out who the actual father is.
There are some spoilers out there if you want to know it. But I’m sure there will also be a formal interview with the writers once the strike ends where they’ll disclose it.
I didn’t watch it after the first episode but I hope they at least tell their fans who the father is.
Still a more satisfying ending than the original.
It wasnt as good as HIMYM but it was a decent background watch. The comedy was meh but the characters kept me watching (well 4 out of 6). Really think its a mistake to cancel this and not give it a resolution.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I even loved it more than the original! 😭
i’m truly disappointed because it is my favorite show and i do believe that Hulu was wrong for cancelling it because there are still unresolved storylines and this show deserves another season or two
Can I say a bad word?
I would advise against it. If you have to ask, you probably shouldn’t.
WHAT!? Cancelling Star+. No respect. And no shows, really…