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Lena Dunham’s Charming Netflix Rom-Com ‘Too Much’ Is a Worthy Follow-Up to ‘Girls’: TV Review
Lena Dunham's Netflix rom-com 'Too Much', her most involved TV effort since 'Girls', is a worthy follow-up to the seminal HBO show.
Jessica meets Felix (Will Sharpe of Season 2 of “The White Lotus”) mere months after the collapse of her long-term relationship with Zev (Michael Zegen of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” who’s developing quite the CV of TV heroines’ awful exes), the nice Jewish boy she thought she’d settle down with. Though “Too Much” makes explicit reference to the likes of “Pride & Prejudice” and “Love Actually,” it’s really part of a different tradition entirely: television series, rather than films, that use the medium’s expanded canvas to explore a relationship in all its length and complexity. Jessica’s coworkers, especially her boss (Richard E. Grant) and a fellow transplant played by director Janicza Bravo, are delightful, but subplots about their love lives that could complement the primary romance aren’t given enough room to resonate.
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