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The joy of seeing

Kim Cattrall

in the first episode of

How I Met Your Father

is pure TV magic.

A luminous actress immune to the gossip and rumors that have haunted her ever since she decided to leave

Sex and the City

.

In the new series, Cattrall is apparently still in Manhattan, but has been speaking

since 2050.

She is the narrator of the inevitable spin-off of

How I Met Your Mother.

Kim is the narrator... and the best of the series.

And that's not good.

There was no doubt that

How I Met Your Mother

would continue to be

exploited

in some way.

Like

Sex and the City

, the success of the Carter Bays and Craig Thomas comedy is easily convertible into a recipe, since its elements were always very clear.

Also, unlike

Sex,

Bays and Thomas's was a

sitcom

to use: its plot progressed as the seasons went by (nine, no less) but it was the stability of the characters and their interactions that generated the

chemistry.

Clearly influenced by

Friends

,

How I Met Your Mother

soon it flew alone, turning its actors into stars and its creators into millionaires.

The series finale, anticipated in the premise, is still relevant.

And this is good.

I wonder if many viewers will make it to the final episode of

How I Met Your Father.

I imagine that it will be then that we will know which of the characters we have met in the initial is the father of the son to whom the Sophie of 2050 (Kim Cattrall) tells her story.

In 2022 Sophie is

Hilary Duff, a former Disney girl

who became a phenomenon at age 14 with

Lizzie McGuire

.

Ten years later, with a bubbly supporting character in

Younger,

Duff demonstrated her ability to tackle adult characters.

In

How I Met Your Father

he combines both registers,

innocence Disney

and the awareness of no longer being a girl.

A little bit of Lizzie McGuire and a little bit of Carrie Bradshaw.

And a little

How I Met Your Mother, of

course.

How I Met Your Father

is visually very old-fashioned: a lifelong set sitcom.

Conceptually, no matter how many

lesbian friends

she includes, her proposal differs little from something we could have seen in the 90s. Talking about

Tinder

all the time (at times it seems that the series is a promo for the

dating

app

) does not make modern to no series.

It's not that she wants to be either, to be fair.

Surprising (or not) that behind

How I Met Your Father

there are two inexperienced screenwriters on

How I Met Your Mother

.

Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger are responsible for the new series.

It is unsettling (or not), that both have worked on

With love, Victor

or

This is Us,

series that have been

revolutionary in their own way.

This indicates that the orders they received "from above" made it very clear how the series of Hillary Duff finding love and becoming Kim Cattrall had to be.

"

It's more of the same"

isn't exactly the best thing to say about a series, except if its creators have been asked to do exactly that.

In that case, a round of applause.

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