Greta Gerwig will be the one to tell you How I Met Your Dad
Lending an unexpected art-house aura to a spinoff of a CBS sitcom, Greta Gerwig has signed on to star in the How I Met Your Mother offshoot, How I Met Your Dad. We already knew the series would be a spinoff in name and concept only, borrowing HIMYM’s flashback structure and applying it to a new set of characters, whose tangential lives prolong one woman’s story of how she met your dad. (“Father” is far too formal; we don’t stand on ceremony here in this house of soliloquies.)