TV Romance
‘Too Much’ Trailer, Guest Stars & More Updates About Lena Dunham’s Netflix Rom-Com Series
We’re of the opinion that there aren’t nearly enough rom-coms in the TV format, but Lena Dunham is rectifying that with her upcoming Netflix show.
The actress-director-writer-producer’s Girls was a defining show of the 2010s, and over eight years later, we’ll finally get to watch (and obsess over) her next project, Too Much. Naturally, the Megan Stalter-led rom-com has already generated a ton of buzz, even though many details are still being kept under wraps ahead of its premiere.
Dunham said she set out “to create a romantic comedy that makes us root for love, brings joy but also has the jagged edges of life,” and that’s more than enough to entice us. Seriously, Too Much can’t hit our screens fast enough. While we wait (im)patiently for its release later this summer, check out everything we know so far about the show.
When is Too Much coming out?
Too Much will premiere Thursday, July 10, on Netflix. The first season will consist of 10 episodes.
Who is in the cast of Too Much?
Hacks star Meg Stalter leads the comedy as Jessica, and The White Lotus breakout Will Sharpe stars as her love interest, Felix.
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Appearing alongside the main pair are Michael Zegen, Naomi Watts, Emily Ratajkowski, Rita Wilson, Richard E. Grant, Stephen Fry, Rhea Perlman, Andrew Rannells, Dean-Charles Chapman, Adele Exarchopoulos, Michael Zegen, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Adwoa Aboah, Daisy Bevan, Janicza Bravo, Kaori Momoi, and Leo Reich.
Though their exact roles have yet to be revealed, Dunham did tell Netflix, “There were so many actors that I respect that I was like, ‘Even if the characters in one episode or four episodes, I want to give them something to grab onto.’” Dunham’s also worked with a good portion of the cast before on past projects.
Netflix has since announced additional guest stars: Andrew Scott, Jennifer Saunders, Kit Harington, Rita Ora and Jessica Alba.
What is Lena Dunham’s Too Much about?
In the wake of a devastating breakup, 30-something Jessica decides to pack up and leave New York, where she feels isolated from everyone she knows and every block “tells a story of her own bad behavior.” The workaholic takes a new job in London, seeing it as a chance to reinvent herself.
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She resolves to stay single forever, but once overseas, she meets indie musician Felix, who’s described as “less Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and more Hugh Grant’s drunken roommate.” As they get closer, their connection makes her rethink her crisis — though it also “creates more problems than it fixes.”
Is there a Too Much trailer?
Netflix released the official Too Much trailer on June 10, which you can watch in full above. The footage gives a glimpse at Jessica’s adventures in London as she seeks to find her “English dream.” Her budding romance with Felix soon takes focus. At one point, he even spits in her mouth while they’re in bed together.
Is Too Much inspired by Lena Dunham’s life?
Yes, like Girls, Dunham’s series is confirmed to be loosely semi-autobiographical. After moving to London in 2021, Dunham found a husband in Luis Felber — who’s a co-creator of the show — and a new circle of friends. In an essay penned for British Vogue, the 39-year-old talks about her “last affair” in the dating world before she left the States. There’s a chance we’ll some parallels on screen in Too Much.
She describes a mid-pandemic encounter with a man named Craig in Los Angeles, which came after “benching” herself from the dating world 18 months earlier. Before the events she describes in the essay, Dunham was in a relationship with music producer Jack Antonoff from 2012 to 2018. “And I knew, in a matter of seconds, that I was going to throw all that hard-earned peace away to make bad choices – sober, self-aware, full-throated bad choices – with this f**king guy,” Dunham wrote about Craig.
The whirlwind romance came to a tearful end when Dunham relocated, but later on, she was set up with Felber by a friend. “Equally chastened and enlightened by the Craig of it all, I would ask this man hard questions, and I would really hear him when he answered, slowly and deliberately, sometimes telling me things he knew I wouldn’t want to hear, but doing it anyway (which I’ve come to think is love.),” she said in the essay.
Too Much, Season 1, July 10, Netflix
