Too Much

Matt Roush says...

Bound to be polarizing, this raw and raunchy twist on the romcom from writer-director Lena Dunham (Girls) stars Hacks standout Megan Stalter as Jessica, a brokenhearted New Yorker who flees to London after a bad breakup (with Michael Zegen, who also played an ex on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) with only a weird hairless Chinese Crested dog as companion, hoping to find her own Mr. Darcy. What she gets is Felix (Will Sharpe from Season 2 of The White Lotus), a scruffy iconoclast of an indie musician who, like Jessica, doesn’t fit the mold of a conventional romantic hero. As their relationship evolves, her insecurities and his aimlessness create obstacles, but who ever said the course of true love — if only he could say the word—ran smoothly? With Rita Wilson, Rhea Perlman and Dunham as Jessica’s fractious family, Richard E. Grant as her new boss and appearances by the likes of Naomi Watts and Ripley’s Andrew Scott (as the mercurial director of Jessica’s commercial shoot).

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