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Dear Hilary Duff, you really don't know how Greta Gerwig fared? In 2014 she was to take on a leading role in "How I Met Your Dad", a planned follow-up series to the long-running mega-hit "How I Met Your Mother". Then the pilot episode, which had already been filmed, was shown to test viewers, which were equipped with a rotary knob. If they didn't like something, they should turn it to the left, they were asked, a bit like Tinder. And that's what they did - every time they saw Greta Gerwig. At least that's how she told Stephen Colbert.

Seven years later, as you announced in an Instagram video, give it a try: “How I Met Your Father”, ten episodes, written by the writers who came up with the original series and then “This Is Us”, the Action set in our present, so with special consideration of stupidities like Tinder.

Everyone was happy, as people do when their hunger for nostalgia is satisfied: Finally watching a clique of very best friends again as they try to cope with growing up, loving, falling out of love, getting engaged and so on, as they do in one Sitting in the pub, teasing each other, telling anecdotes from the office and about catastrophic dates - life as it is, only with significantly better punchlines.

Disney and Hulu are pulling this off

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What can go wrong?

Nothing.

“How I Met Your Father” will in all probability be a blast, if only because this time nobody will make the mistake of waiting for the wrong judgment of a test audience.

Ten episodes are commissioned that you don't throw in the garbage without being sent.

In addition, the streaming provider Hulu, where "How I Met Your Father" is supposed to be shown, belongs to Disney, and Disney is doing something like that.

But that's when your problems will start.

Because of course everyone will compare “How I Met Your Father” with “How I Met Your Mother”.

This can't turn out well for you.

The original was lovely, for a while, but most of all it was new.

The reprint, however good it may be, reminds you that you've gotten pretty old in the meantime.

Carrie Bradshaw as a warning

And if you liked something very much, you don't want to trade it for something that pretends to be the same.

So you probably won't be allowed to spend nine seasons explaining to your son how you met his father.

And therefore remain an actress who tried, but then didn't quite make it.

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It would only be even worse if you did manage to be loved for “How I Met Your Father”, which you can be trusted to do.

Then you will be trapped in that role for the rest of your life.

There aren't that many who have managed to survive a series hit - Jennifer Aniston and George Clooney, of course, but what else?

Sarah Jessica Parker will always be Carrie Bradshaw from "Sex and the City" and Matt LeBlanc will never be able to shake off the "Friends" -Joey, no matter how hard the two try to get noticed for something other than their biggest hit.

You too will have to try.

And most people will just think: She was really great in "How I Met Your Father".

Greta Gerwig, on the other hand, who failed at the time, has been nominated for an Oscar three times since then.

Your Peter Praschl