Country of origin United States Original network CBS | No. of episodes 24 | |
Original release September 19, 2011 (2011-09-19) –
May 14, 2012 (2012-05-14) | ||
The seventh season of the American television comedy series How I Met Your Mother was announced in March 2011, along with confirmation of an eighth season. The seventh season premiered on CBS on September 19, 2011, with two episodes airing back to back, and concluded on May 14, 2012.
Contents
Main cast
Recurring cast
Guest cast
Ratings
As of December 21, 2011, the 7th season was averaging a 5.3 rating / 14% share among adults 18-49, ranking as the 5th highest rated comedy series among adults 18-49.
On April 8, 2012, the New York Times stated that the 7th season ratings had reached a series high, marking a 20% increase in ratings among adults 18-49.
Reception
Season seven of How I Met Your Mother received mixed reviews from critics. Alan Sepinwall gave the season a mixed review and criticized the flash-forwards throughout the season saying, "the show is just much, much stronger when its stories dwell on matters of the present or the past, and where the writers don't have to act like magicians trying to keep the audience from figuring out how the trick works. And the finale affirmed that belief for me. The parts that had little or nothing to do with things to come were quite good; the parts that were all about the future made me roll my eyes and ask, for the umpteenth time, 'Really? This is where you're going with this?'". Ethan Alter of Television Without Pitty, gave the season a lukewarm response. In his review of the season finale, he criticized the Robin-Barney story-line throughout the season, writing:"So after an entire season, we're basically right back where we started, with the writers having taken 24 episodes to stage a reveal that could have happened in the first five minutes of the premiere and had the exact same impact."