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Too Much Series-Premiere Recap: New Girl in Town
Lena Dunham’s new Netflix series is a send-up of classic British rom-coms like Bridget Jones’s Diary and Notting Hill.
A woman in England, she tells Wendy Jones, her ex-boyfriend’s fiancée and the person to whom her narration is addressed, can be anything, whether that’s “a strong-willed police sergeant who uses her trauma to solve grisly crimes,” “a sex worker with a heart of gold,” or “a carefree party girl with her whole life ahead of her.” What’s in store for Jessica to learn (it’s obvious from the start) is that timeless lesson: You take yourself wherever you go. All of that said, how does Jessica find herself in London in the throes of her breakup with “Zev Jeremiah Goldstein,” who dumped her because he “wasn’t ready to be a husband and a father” and then got quickly engaged to Wendy Jones, a social-media influencer played by — this is important — Emily Ratajkowski? Since breaking up, Jessica has moved back to Long Island with her fitness-obsessed mother (the always-excellent Rita Wilson); grandmother (Rhea Perlman); recently divorced sister, Nora (Dunham); and nephew, whose quippy eccentricity feels like a continuation of the women’s.
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