A new romantic comedy series is headed to Netflix from creator Lena Dunham (Girls) and her husband and co-creator, Luis Felber. The series is titled Too Much, and it will star Megan Stalter (Hacks) and Will Sharpe (The White Lotus) in the lead roles.
The show “follows Jessica (Stalter), a New York workaholic in her mid-30s who is reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows. When every block in New York tells a story of her own bad behavior, the only solution is to take a job in London, where she plans to live a life of solitude like a Brontë sister. But when she meets Felix (Sharpe) — who is less Hugh Grant in ‘Notting Hill’ and more Hugh Grant’s drunken roommate — she finds that their unusual connection is impossible to ignore, even as it creates more problems than it solves. Now they have to ask themselves: Do Americans and Brits actually speak the same language? The series is an ex-pat rom-com for the disillusioned who wonder if true love is still possible, but sincerely hope that it is.”
Per the official character descriptions, “If you’d met Jessica ten years ago, you would have been blinded by her inner light — but life has taken her on a walkabout, when she thought she was just taking a quick jog. Felix upends all her expectations, but it turns out that trusting someone is scarier than trusting no one. Felix is a very different kind of 35 – acting eternally 18, dressed like a punk elf, running as fast as he can from a trauma he can’t name, sleeping with every woman who stays in the bar past closing time and waking up wondering why he can’t just enjoy a night alone. Born in the U.K. and raised between English boarding schools and his extended family in Japan, he feels neither here nor there. Making music is his only consolation — music that no one listens to.”
Dunham writes and directs Too Much, which features original music from Felber. The pair are producing the ten-episode first season, which is her first series since the one-season HBO show Camping, which aired in 2018.
via: Variety
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