“How I Met Your Father”: this was the surprise cameo in the last episode of the spin-off

Eight years after How I Met Your Mother stopped airing on the small screen, a spin-off came that reviews a similar story from a perspective feminine and in a more modern context under the title of How I Met Your Father. Actress Hilary Duff brings to life Sophie Tompkins, a young woman about to enter adulthood who explores love in the age of dating apps. Meanwhile, in 2050, the older version of the protagonist (Kim Cattrall) tells her son this experience.

A few days ago, Star+ released the season finale and an unexpected appearance blew up social media. The series debuted on March 9 on the digital platform and before ending with this first installment it was confirmed that a continuation is on the way. That is, in the same style as Ted Mosby, there is still much more to know about the story of Sophie and the father of her child.

Whose cameo was it in the last episode?

After a long time, Cobie Smulders returned to her role as Robin Scherbatsky in the final chapter of the first season. When Sophie (Duff) goes to a new place to forget about her problems and have a drink, she coincidentally arrives at MacLaren's, the bar we knew in the original history. As expected, this script decision was more than intentional to connect the two productions through a scene of both sharing an enjoyable talk about love and a whisky.

“Don't waste time being afraid. Fear can make you run away from things that could be good, even... great! Even things that are supposed to be part of your story. I have been married, single and everything else, and the only decisions I regret having made are the ones I made out of fear,” the remembered Canadian reporter is heard saying from her vast experience with romantic relationships.

Notably, this scene confirmed that How I Met Your Father occurs eight years before Ted and Robin are back together, as it has been six years since she divorced Barney. As you remember, the spin-off series takes place in 2022 and it would still be a while before some of the original characters solve their lives as they always wanted. Why was only Smulders brought back and not the other actors who made up the original cast?

“Robin is between romances right now, she doesn't seem sad, she doesn't seem depressed,” director Pamela Fryman and co-creator Elizabeth Berger commented in conversation with TVLine. “Most of all, I think when she walks into that bar, there are ghosts of her past. She's sitting at the bar, and she takes a look at that booth... and she talks about how someone said they loved her on their first date.”

And they add: “It's all that. We all go into places where we have been at different times in our lives and say, 'What if I go this way? What if I left that way? Should I call that person? ' That's life, and that's what's so special about it for me. We can see Sophie on this new journey and we can see someone we've known and loved for so long reflecting on hers, and she's not done yet.”

All episodes of How I Met Your Father, the spin-off of the hit comedy How I Met Your Mother, can be seen on Star+.

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