‘How I Met Your Father’ Brings Back Barney Stinson

The first episode of the second season of ‘How I Met Your Father’ has given us a major surprise by bring back one of the most beloved characters from the original series, ‘How I Met Your Mother’: Barney Stinson.

The character played by Neil Patrick Harris makes an appearance at the end of the chapter when Sophie (Hilary Duff), the protagonist of the series, accidentally hits her vehicle. Barney then gets out of his car, revealing his identity and stunning all the ‘HIMYM’ fans..

In the first season we already had the return of Robin (Cobie Smulders)and the role of Barney in the second seems to be important and go beyond the cameo, as they say series creators Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger in an interview for TV line. “Just like Robin last year, we’ll find out a bit more about where and how Barney is, but also will have a huge impact on the trajectory and main narrative of our new season.”

Does that mean that he will become a recurring character in this second season of ‘How I Met Your Father? “We’ll have to wait and see. That car accident becomes a major turning point in Sophie’s life and her season-long arc. Once we catch up with that, I think people will be pleasantly surprised at how his story spins through Barney.”.

His return to the franchise was created thanks to the good relationship of the actor with Pamela Frymanexecutive producer of both series, and comes after the news broke that ‘Unpaired’, the Neil Patrick Harris series on Netflix, has been canceled and will not have a second season.

The new chapters of ‘How I Met Your Father’ have been released in the US through the Hulu platform, so They should arrive in Spain on dates close to the Disney + catalog.