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‘Too Much’ Is The Right Amount, Plus A Little More
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‘Too Much’ Is The Right Amount, Plus A Little More

Almost a decade after “Girls,” Lena Dunham hasn’t lost her edge — but her new series adds a mellow sweetness.
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Titling your new Netflix rom-com series “Too Much” is the sort of move that comes off as either a provocation or an easy set-up. It’s as if co-creator Lena Dunham is inviting critics to assess whether her show and her heroine are, indeed, too much. And given the decade-plus of fevered discourse around her last semi-autobiographical TV series, “Girls,” it makes sense that Dunham would not only be prepared for outsized reactions, but ready to take them head-on. But ultimately, “Too Much” isn’t a defiant, confrontational show; it’s an intimate exploration of how falling in love can seem to heal us, but also expose how we’re broken.

The show opens with Jessica (the hilarious, if sometimes overly schticky, Meg Stalter) moving to London for a work project in hopes of getting over a devastating breakup with her live-in boyfriend, Zev (Michael Zegen). He has quickly moved on with a stunning knitwear influencer named Wendy (Emily Ratajkowski), and Jessica has becom…

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