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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Frankly not all that surprising in the current environment. The show would never have lasted half as long as HIMYM. No streaming series is going to last that long. The strikes just preemptively finished the job.
I’m so disappointed in this. I was so sure it was going to get at least 1 more season. But of course they have to take a show away that was actually doing well.
Honestly, as much as I liked Hilary Duff and some of the other actors (Chris Lowell and Francia Raisa) the show was just eh. HIMYM may have gone on for too long but at the beginning it was new and exciting and it was really trying to build off some of the structural and formal approaches that shows like Coupling (the British one) had done. This felt oddly nostalgic where the original felt new and exciting. In a way that I don’t think could have pleased anyone. The writing not as sharp as the original for people like me old enough to watch the original when it came out, and not doing its own different thing and trying to be new for younger viewers. Not horrible, but overall, disappointing. Not a surprise to see it go.
A comment said this was a great background show and sadly I have to agree. As much as I liked the OG series and wanted this new one to work… it just felt like a super generic sitcom with really bland jokes. Ellen and Sid felt like outliers the whole time and the group lacked chemistry.
So frustrating, every streaming show getting cancelled after a couple of seasons. Won’t get anybody to watch new shows like this.
Please, someone pick this up at least for a final few episodes to wrap up the story
Tired of every streaming show I watch getting cancelled
Whaaaaaaaaat why????
This is exactly the reason that people are just going to stop even bothering wasted time and energy on serialized shows like this until they’re over and we can trust they wont get cancelled like so many others. Its not fair to the viewers or the people that put so much into creating the shows at all.
I hope the ending is revealed but I’m not surprised, it never had the magic and chemistry of himym, biggest issue was the characters/writing/chemistry of Valentina, Ellen, Charlie, and Hannah were bad it just didn’t work.
Sophie, Sid, and Jesse were the only main characters with chemistry that felt organic and simply worked, unfortunately the entire cast has to work in order for a show like this to survive. Also the lol moments were not there at all!
Hulu sucks.. I can’t believe they canceled this awesome show with no closure.. hike has no idea what its fans wants… cancelling my subscription.. hope other fans do the same .. shame on Hulu. Was a great show.
As much as I enjoyed this show, I am not surprised. While I really loved the show it was no where near as good as HIMYM. I mean this show has the exact opposite problem of the original! While the original had a lead actor that got outshined by his supporting cast, this series had a lead actress that outshined her supporting cast. What they should have done was cast comedians and character actors like the original.
At least, Charles and Valentina got their happy ending at the finale with that flash forward family pic with their kid.
As someone who loved HIMYM I was really hoping that this show would work but I couldn’t get into it. The chemistry with the original group felt real – Ted, Marshal and Lily had a history so the addition of Barney and Robin was really an issue. This group just seemed forced together with no connection. Had the chemistry worked everything else might have been a non-issue. Also seeing Kim Cattrall took me out of the present day story. Just hearing the voiceover made it feel like that was just a mature Ted. Shame it didn’t work but the magic just wasn’t there.
Well, that’s another reason not to renew Disney+ when the price rises…
Hulu… you messed up. That was a FANTASTIC show with a very promising future. Great job on screwing up. 😡
Well I have yet to give this show a go. I did enjoy how I met your mother so though originally not fo d of the idea I would of given this show a try. I am not a fan to be left hanging though. Due to that fact it is sad to see the show cancelled already
Man, come on, this was a good show
That’s horrible
This is what happens they start cancelling our enjoyable shows they probably didnt want to extend their contracts until the strike is over ! So easier to cancel and save bank:(
I watched with a straight face thru season 2 episode 2, not even a smile. Hilary should’ve never signed onto this unfunny mess, now her consecutive shows being hits is ruined.
Hagan la 3° temporada!!
I have been obsessed with how I met your father since it came out and they cancelled it? That breaks my heart. I really enjoyed all the actors and the show! Bring it back!!
I love How I Met Your Father. I am sad that it was canceled. Hoping and praying that another network picks it up! Love the cast and feel they were just getting into some good storyline.