Hal & Harper

Hal & Harper
Genre	Comedy-drama
Created by	Cooper Raiff
Written by	Cooper Raiff
Directed by	Cooper Raiff
Starring	Cooper Raiff Lili Reinhart Betty Gilpin Mark Ruffalo
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Executive producers	Lili Reinhart Cooper Raiff Daniel Lewis Addison Timlin Clementine Quittner
Producer	Thomas Hartmann
Cinematography	Doug Emmett
Editor	McKinley Carlin
Running time	25–43 minutes
Production companies	Bad Bangs LLC Small Ideas Lionsgate Television
Original release
Network	Stan
Release	June 26, 2025 (2025-06-26)
Network	Mubi
Release	October 19 (2025-10-19) – November 30, 2025 (2025-11-30)

Hal & Harper is an American comedy-drama television series created, written, and directed by Cooper Raiff and starring Raiff, Lili Reinhart, Betty Gilpin, and Mark Ruffalo.

The series had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2025.¹² All episodes were released in Australia on Stan on June 26.³ The series then began streaming on Mubi in the United States, Latin America, and France on October 19.⁴⁵⁶

Speaking in 2020, Raiff described the plot as following two siblings and their single father who is making them grow up too fast. With that in mind, the 7-year old and 9-year-old characters would be cast with adult actors.⁷

• Cooper Raiff as Hal
• Lili Reinhart as Harper
• Mark Ruffalo as Dad, Hal and Harper's father
• Betty Gilpin as Kate, Dad's girlfriend
• Addison Timlin as Audrey, Harper's co-worker
• Havana Rose Liu as Abby Jossos, Hal's on-and-off girlfriend
• Alyah Chanelle Scott as Jesse, Harper's longtime girlfriend

Speaking in 2020 to Screen Daily, Cooper Raiff said he had been writing the script for Hal & Harper for "a long time".⁸ The series was initially set up at FX, however, Raiff opted to produce the series independently after creative differences, with Lionsgate Television providing financing.⁹¹⁰ In August 2023, Mark Ruffalo and Lili Reinhart were cast, with Ruffalo expected to play the father and Reinhart and Raiff expected to play the siblings. Also joining the cast were Addison Timlin and Havana Rose Liu.¹¹

Filming started in Los Angeles in August 2023.¹² An interim agreement was obtained to continue production during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike.¹³ In January 2024, lead actress Lili Reinhart shared photographs from filming on her private Instagram account.¹⁴

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 92% of 24 critics' reviews are positive. The website's critics consensus reads, "Naturalistic and peppered with relatable insight, Hal & Harper is a moving family dramedy enlivened by superb performances across the board."¹⁵ Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the show a score of 81 out of 100, based on 11 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".¹⁶