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Anyone who says Lena Dunham also has to say “girls”. In this twisted romantic sex comedy, the film author caught the self-image of the millennials with an outrageous sobriety and intimacy.
The series that ran from 2012 to 2017 was also a autumn-sweet counter-draft to “Sex and the City” by telling a few friends who more or less tried to get their life in New York City under control, but can not afford an apartment in West Village, but only a shared apartment in Greenpoint.
Dunham’s new series “Too Much” can now be interpreted as an unofficial sequel. In any case, everyone who already had the feeling of being dealing with a kind of autofictional series will think the same thing at “Too Much”.
Lena Dunham tells (again) of herself
Lena Dunham moved to London four years ago and married the British-Peruvian musician Luis Felber. And this also tells this series, which Dunham came up with with Felber: The New Yorker Jessica (Megan Stalter, “Hacks”) flees after a disastrous separation to London and falls in love with the musician Felix (Will Sharpe, “The White Lotus”).
But you also want to find this series well because you loved “girls” – “Too Much” makes it very difficult. There is nothing left of the brittle charm of the generation portrait, which was “girls”, of do-it-yourself aesthetics in the tradition of the Mumblecore films, with which Dunham’s strange protagonist: there was no more mandrel by improvised dialogues.
Instead, uncomfortably intrusive figures declare zeitgeist slogans. In addition, the mini series still has a awkward dramaturge and poorly timed comedy. That is actually a bit too much.