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The Good Mom

  • Episode aired Feb 8, 2022
  • TV-14
  • 25m
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6.4/10
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Paget Brewster in How I Met Your Father (2022)
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An unexpected visit from Sophie's mom heightens Val's concern for her friend. Charlie helps Jesse and Sid face past traumas. A culinary quest leads Ellen to someone new.An unexpected visit from Sophie's mom heightens Val's concern for her friend. Charlie helps Jesse and Sid face past traumas. A culinary quest leads Ellen to someone new.An unexpected visit from Sophie's mom heightens Val's concern for her friend. Charlie helps Jesse and Sid face past traumas. A culinary quest leads Ellen to someone new.

  • Director
    • Morenike Joela Evans
  • Writers
    • Isaac Aptaker
    • Elizabeth Berger
    • Christopher Encell
  • Stars
    • Hilary Duff
    • Christopher Lowell
    • Francia Raisa
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    6.4/10
    1.1K
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    • Director
      • Morenike Joela Evans
    • Writers
      • Isaac Aptaker
      • Elizabeth Berger
      • Christopher Encell
    • Stars
      • Hilary Duff
      • Christopher Lowell
      • Francia Raisa
    • 6User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    Hilary Duff
    Hilary Duff
    • Sophie
    Christopher Lowell
    Christopher Lowell
    • Jesse
    Francia Raisa
    Francia Raisa
    • Valentina
    • (as Francia Raísa)
    Suraj Sharma
    Suraj Sharma
    • Sid
    Tom Ainsley
    Tom Ainsley
    • Charlie
    Tien Tran
    Tien Tran
    • Ellen
    Kim Cattrall
    Kim Cattrall
    • Sophie (Future)
    Josh Peck
    Josh Peck
    • Drew
    Paget Brewster
    Paget Brewster
    • Lori
    Leighton Meester
    Leighton Meester
    • Meredith
    Mason Gooding
    Mason Gooding
    • Ash
    Aby James
    Aby James
    • Rachel
    Stony Blyden
    Stony Blyden
    • Jasper
    Nick Atkinson
    Nick Atkinson
    • Brad
    Pressly Coker
    Pressly Coker
    • Bar Guy
    Danielle Macatantan
    • Waitress
    Nischal Nara
    Nischal Nara
    • Young Sid
    Brandon Papo
    Brandon Papo
    • Guy Recording Jesse
    • Director
      • Morenike Joela Evans
    • Writers
      • Isaac Aptaker
      • Elizabeth Berger
      • Christopher Encell
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    10vinaykaushik15

    Best episode of the series so far!

    Finally the characters are coming together. There is an emotional motive of an episode. The laughing track may not be the best choice. But it's cool to try new stuff and stick with the one that works well. The show isn't quite as smooth or has the same pace as HIMYM, but maybe that isn't a bad thing. It might find it's own pace and character development. I have slight hope after this episode. The mother in the beginning of every show sitting alone on the sofa and talking slowly in a sitcom that's very time limited isn't probably the optimal way. Ignoring that fact, rest 18 minutes were pretty good.
    6ashishaggarwal-44812

    Laughing Track is the last resort ?

    The best thing about How I metr your mother was that the show didn't have unnecessary laughing track for every single thing in the show. The first 5 minutes were totally intolerable due to extensive fake laugh track. Ending with Music was great. Instead of trying to introduce new characters, the show should focus on building story around the existing ones.
    1mfcrites

    Seriously, how's it so bad?!

    Because I loved HIMYM so much I'm willing to try to make it through the first season, hoping it'll some how improve; but it seems to only be getting worse. It truly is everything bad about sitcoms. All the general criticisms of sitcoms are compiled into this one show. So, I guess that's pretty impressive.
    4Laqshayaroraofficial

    Are the jokes for the laughter track only?

    The starting of every episode is so unbelievably bad, the middle part is comparatively better, in the end they try to make it emotional, I mean where is the comedy? They have planned good story for every episode but if you are making a situational comedy show like how I met your mother, friends,etc there should be really good one liners, jokes and stuff in every scene but it's not the case with this show. Even Hilary looks bored in every episode because the writers are so boring!

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    • Trivia
      Paget Brewster who plays Sophie's mom Lori previously played Josh Pecks mom on the short lived TV show Grandfathered.
    • Connections
      References Sex and the City (1998)

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    • Release date
      • February 8, 2022 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • 20th Television
      • Bays Thomas Productions
      • CBS
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      25 minutes
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    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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