Let ${B^{H}}$ be a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index $\frac{1}{2}\lt H\lt 1$. In this paper, we consider the time fractional functional differential equation of the form
where $\frac{3}{2}-H\lt \gamma \lt 1$, ${^{C}}{D_{t}^{\gamma }}$ denotes the Caputo derivative, and ${x_{t}}\in {\mathcal{C}_{r}}=\mathcal{C}([-r,0],\mathbb{R})$ with ${x_{t}}(u)=x(t+u)$, $u\in [-r,0]$. We prove the global existence and uniqueness of the solution of the equation and study its viability. As an application, we also discuss the existence of positive solutions.