Lena Dunham’s “Too Much” Is Exactly Enough
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Lena Dunham brings nuance, depth to new show ‘Too Much’
If you loved HBO’s iconic series, “Girls,” you will absolutely adore writer/director Lena Dunham’s new romantic comedy, “Too Much.” In the Netflix series, the lead character, Jessica — brilliantly played by bisexual comedian Megan Stalter — leaves New York to take a job in London, after a heartbreaking breakup. She stumbles onto an indie musician named Felix, charmingly portrayed in the series by actor/musician Will Sharpe (who you may remember …
Lena Dunham’s “Too Much” Is Exactly Enough
What even was Girls? One of the features that notoriously distinguishes online writing about art and culture is its speed. In comparison to the kinds of slow, roiling debates among public intellectuals of previous eras, today’s discourse explodes in enlivening and exhausting near-simultaneous waves of point and counterpoint. There’s no better example of this kind of breakneck colloquy than the reception, in spring 2012, of the very first episode…
The parallels between the life of the director and that of the protagonist of the series have caused rivers of ink to run. Barbara Arena reflects on how we relate, as spectators, to the autofiction
Long-awaited, but not good enough now? With her new series "Too Much", Lena Dunham can't build on the success of "Girls", but our author thinks: There are good reasons to watch the Netflix show. Just under ten years after her big breakthrough with the successful series "Girls", Lena Dunham brings her long-awaited series project "Too Much" to the screen. While "Girls" was celebrated as an unbeautiful counter-design for "Sex and the City", and was…
Lena Dunham was hanged the label of “the voice of a generation” thanks to Girls, who wrote, directed, starred and produced after having premiered in the cinema with an independent film called Tiny Furniture, which had aroused the curiosity of HBO directors. She was the vedette of the cultural conversation thanks to the impact of her series, which was seen, analyzed and discussed between the specialized press and the millennial generation that at…
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