Lena Dunham Co-Creates Netflix Series ‘Too Much’ Starring Will Sharpe and Megan Stalter
“Girls” creator Lena Dunham is back on TV, this time behind a new Netflix series, “Too Much.”
Dunham, who also created HBO’s “Camping” in 2018, co-created “Too Much” alongside husband Luis Felber. The 10-episode rom-com series stars “Hacks” breakout Megan Stalter as New York workaholic Jessica who is reeling from a breakup. Jessica opts to instead uproot her life to London, where she plans on being alone forever. She soon meets Felix, played by “The White Lotus” star Will Sharpe, who dismantles her own objections to finding love again.
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Dunham writes and directs the series, with Felber providing original music. The duo executive produce, along with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Michael Cohen, Surian Fletcher-Jones and Bruce Eric Kaplan; Camilla Bray produces. The series comes from Dunham’s Good Thing Going banner and Universal International Studios’ Working Title Television.
Variety first announced the new series, with Netflix confirming to IndieWire.
“This is a show that is very close to my heart — created with my husband Luis, cast with my favourite actors — the geniuses that are Meg and Will, along with a bevy of friends – and partnering again with Working Title, who are behind the romantic comedies that formed me,” Dunham said in a press statement. “Netflix has been so deeply supportive of the vision, which is to create a romantic comedy that makes us root for love, brings joy but also has the jagged edges of life.”
According to Netflix, the official character descriptions of Stalter’s Jessica and Sharpe’s Felix read: “If you’d met Jessica 10 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.”
The series is billed as being about “an ex-pat rom-com for the disillusioned who wonder if true love is still possible, but sincerely hope that it is.”
The episodes will be 30 minutes long, with production starting in the UK in 2024.
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