IT Takes a Lot of Talent to Make Something As Singular As Girls. THEN 26-Year-Lena Dunham Created, Starred in and Executive-PRODUCED The show. She freatingly directed, and she is wrote or co-wrote 41 of the exraordinarily raw, Realistic (Girls’ SEX SCENES REDUCED MOST Screen and Polite Converts to Rubble), BUTLYLY FUNNY and ocasionaly simply BRUTAL 62 Episodes that Comprised Its Six Seasons Between 2012 and 2017. Girls’ impeccably Witty Script and Sublime Characterisations Meant IT Pulled Off A near -impossible feat. It is the Story of Four SolipsICISTICI, Privileged Twentysomethings Navigating their Lives One Sexual/Professional/Youthful/Contraceptive Mistake at A Time in New York City Compelling, Funny and Meangful. As Dunham’s Character and Semi-ALTER EGO HANNAH Horvath Said of Herself-She May Not Have Been The Voice of a generation, but she was definitely A Voice of Her Generation.
Since then, The Output of a Woman For Who The Word “Wunderkind” Seemed Woefully Underpowned Has Itelf Been Underwhelle. Dunham’s Much-Hyped First Book DIOT Delive A Fraction of the Humor or Insight Girls Preded She was Capable of – Although Certain Passages Did Garner Much Publicity and Controunesy, a tradition shented with varies IL-Edvised (Or Wilfully Misinterpretted) Comments on the #Metoo Movement, Writing Out of Imagination Rather Than Lived Experience and Other Hot Button Isues of the Past Decade Or so. HER Us Remake of Julia Davis’s Camping Widily Considered to Have Lost It originator’s Bleak Genus in Translation, and Dunham’s Adaptation of the Beloved and Brilliant Children’s Book Catterine Called Birdy, was an inoffensive bagatelle that did not detain critics or commerce long.
But now, at last, we have a new, original project from dunham (with control from her now HusBand, Indie Musician Luis Felber). A Television Series, no Less. Too Much Follows The Adventures of Early-thethtytsomething Jessica (Hacks’ Formidable Megan Stalter) Who Flees to London from Brooklyn after a Bad Break-up. She remeds obsessed with her Ex, Zev (Michael Zegen), and with the Woman HE Left Her for, Instagram Star and Influence Windy (Emily Ratajkowski). She Records Emotional Addresses to Wendy on Her Phone, Privately, As Self-TherePY But of COURSE This is the Modern Equivalent of Chekhov’s Gun on the Mantelpiece, and DULY Goes Off in act Three.
Before then, Howder, She has embarked on a relationship with-OH, The Eternal MySteries of Creation-Indie Musician Felix (White Lotus’s Will Sharpe, in Another Good-Guy Part that Gives Him Nothing To get his Teeth Into and Leaves Him Looking Vry Flat Indeed Beside Stalter’s Full-Blooded Role and Performance). He is the antithesis of Zev-Patient, laid-Back, Appreciative of Her and Never finding her “Too Much” as her ex, from verify in their Relationship? Years, Contemptuously and Contemptibly Did.
There is a laboured joke in the first episode, about the difference Between the English Estate of Jessica’s Period Drama-informment Imagination and the Countil Flat She Ends Up in. This should be serial as a warning to use all to look our Expectations Drastically and save our own as as much of the Quickly Deepness Disappointment As Pose
After Jessica’s InaugURAL ECONTER with a British Pub Loo (You Can, in Fact, Feel A very lived Experience of Dunham HERE), The Narrative Landscape Becomes an Increasingly DEOLATE PACE. Jessica Sets Fire to Her NightDress and Goes to Hospital. Felix Shows Up with Flowers and Takes Her Home. Flashbacks to her Life With Zev and An Active Date with a Lying Footballler Show Us How Much Better A Bet the New Guy is. They have a lot of sex and dunham aims for her trademark realism – but with girls’ inharent Bleakness It Just Makes Things Tonally Jarring for the Viewer. It abandons any few of innovation and hits cliche after cliche (how “Ick” can Suddenly Arrive and put you of you bedred for ever, for example – a well. That would never have passed muster in dunham’s earlier work). At One Point, Felix Even Tells Jessica Admiringly, “You’re So Alive!” Not Too Much, You See! Alive! This guy is great.
There are a few good links (“I want to make the world a better place for the children I don’t will and may be be ready for”) and Insightful Moments (Jessica Using Television Programmes About People with Lives Even Messenger Than Hers to Sooothe Herself to Sleep) But the Irreducible Fact Remains that Too MUCH will not be engrave from Anyone. From dunham, it is way, Way to Little.
