Not sure if we have any fans of How I Met Your Mother here. I loved that show. The first seven seasons were mostly gold. It started going downhill with season 8, and season 9 might be the worst final season of any sitcom ever (capped off with an awful ending).
They have now produced a show called How I Met Your Father, and the first two episodes are now available on Hulu. It's set in the same universe as HIMYM and follows the same basic concept (a parent telling his/her child(ren) how he/she met the other parent), but it's otherwise unrelated (i.e., this is NOT the story of how Tracy McConnell met Ted Mosby). Hilary Duff (as the main character) is likable, and a few of the other main characters seem ok. They didn't just put together a mirror image of the HIMYM main characters. However, the casting and dialog was pandering and awkward. We've got the white girl, the black guy, a Mexican girl, a gay Chinese girl, a white guy and an Indian guy (not entirely sure who the main characters are exactly). It's as if someone just sat there with a checklist. Also, I was pretty sure we were going to get a message at the end saying, "produced with major funding from Tinder."
Not so bad that I won't give it another chance or two, but not much more than that.