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Too Much Recap: Complex Female Character
Jessica forms a fast connection with Felix, but her new co-workers aren’t as quick to embrace her quirkiness.
Consider Bridget Jones, who is a kind of foil for Too Much ’s Jessica and a contemporary adaptation of Lizzy Bennet: She goes on a journey of self-renewal, resolving to quit smoking, lose weight, and get her life together in hopes of proving Mark Darcy wrong, a path that leads her to finding her true self, etc. Her new boss (the phenomenal Richard E. Grant) leads a meeting trying to figure out the “populist and pure” vibe of the Christmas commercial, which will star Rita Ora in a Stella McCartney–designed Santa bikini (there is still no one as sharp as Dunham when it comes to stringing this sort of absurdist referential sentence together). So while Felix decides to follow his heart and go to Linnea’s house to break up with her — the beautiful, moody woman we saw “leave the pub in a huff” in the pilot — Jess lets her co-workers adjust her outfit.
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