12 h. ago Girls gone bad: Lena Dunham’s Too Much is just not good enough

The creator of the seminal HBO hit has followed up with an underbaked Netflix background watch, a crushing disappointment for her ardent fanbaseThere is one TV show that has been enjoyed most often, and most reliably, among my cohort in New York: Girls, the seminal HBO dramedy about Brooklyn’s downwardly mobile and highly self-important creative class of the 2010s. Though a cultural lightning rod when it aired from 2012 until 2017 – its whiteness, convincing narcissism, frank sexuality and frequent nudity all catnip for the cresting blogosphere and cyclical moral panic – Girls has rightfully settled into its status as one of the best television series of the 21st century, a foundational text for millennials as well as a biting satire of solipsistic, Obama-era striving. (Although viewers too young to remember it as anything other than canon now see the girls’ flailing – their freedom to wear terrible prints, listen to Vampire Weekend and be earnest – as something to be envied rather ...

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20 h. ago Last of Us star's 'exquisite' period film everyone is watching

Lena Dunham's period film Catherine Called Birdy is taking the world by storm, with viewers flocking to watch the comedy as the budding actor takes centre stage

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21 h. ago Where Was 'Too Much' Filmed? Behind the Scenes of Lena Dunham's London Show

Where Was 'Too Much' Filmed? Behind the Scenes of Lena Dunham's London Show  Condé Nast Traveler

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45 h. ago Lena Dunham's Arrival at London Signals Celebrity Émigrés Are Losing Their Glam

Lena Dunham's Arrival at London Signals Celebrity Émigrés Are Losing Their Glam  The New York Sun

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4 d. ago ‘This summer’s story’: sitcom Too Much gives nighties a starring role

Nightdresses are set to follow pyjamas out of the bedroom as daywear, with sales up on the UK high streetIn the first episode of Lena Dunham’s new Netflix sitcom Too Much, viewers might be taken with cameos from Dunham, Jessica Alba and the model Emily Ratajkowski, or the burgeoning romance between Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe. But – as far as fashion is concerned – it’s nighties that have a starring role.Early in the episode, Stalter wears a short frilled red nightie, with her dog in a matching design. Later, she wears a white frilled floor-length design, and it’s clear the item is something of a signature. If it’s a cute quirk for a character, it’s also in line with wider trends. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Carlos Alcaraz too 'distracted' by 'girls' to win Wimbledon, says tennis bad boy

Australian hellraiser Nick Kyrgios says Wimbledon star Carlos Alcaraz could 'party too much' and may be 'distracted' in his final with rival Jannik Sinner

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5 d. ago Too Much filming locations: All the London spots in Lena Dunham's new Netflix series

Too Much filming locations: All the London spots in Lena Dunham's new Netflix series  London Evening Standard

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5 d. ago Too Much filming locations: All the London spots in the Lena Dunham Netflix series

Too Much on Netflix is heavily inspired by Lena Dunham’s London love story. But which of the capital’s hotspots made the cut?

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5 d. ago Our Yorkshire Farm's Reuben faces 'really bad' setback with girlfriend Jess

Reuben Owen, star of Our Yorkshire Farm, was back on our screens as he continued to oversee the expansion of his heavy plant machinery business in the secluded Yorkshire Dales

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5 d. ago Netflix fans 'binge the hell out of' Lena Dunham's new romcom series

The series stars Megan Stalter, 34, (Jessica) as a workaholic New Yorker who, after a devastating breakup, decides to leave the country for London.

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5 d. ago Lena Dunham reveals she received ‘incredibly conservative’ backlash for her HBO series Girls

The writer, director and actress says she wasn't surprised by the rise of MAGA

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5 d. ago London has had the Lena Dunham treatment. I’m relieved to say it’s a triumph | Barbara Speed

Once you get past the Mr Darcy fantasies, her new show Too Much is an affectionate sendup of the capital in all its variety and strangenessI have watched all six series of Girls at least four times. I watched it as it was castigated for its unlikable characters, lack of diversity, supposed misogyny and sex that wasn’t “fun” enough, and I’ve watched it during its recent gen Z-fuelled renaissance. I never thought Lena Dunham’s show was perfect, or a window on to all of humanity. But as an arch portrait of a handful of upper-middle-class twentysomething women in New York, thousands of miles away from my reality, I’ve always believed that it couldn’t be bettered.Then Dunham moved to London and released a new show, this time about me? Too Much’s protagonists are thirtysomethings living in London: Jessica (played by Megan Stalter) moves over from New York after a breakup; her love interest Felix (Will Sharpe) is a Londoner jaded by years of struggling as a session guitarist. The stakes fe...

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5 d. ago I loved Girls – but could I trust Lena Dunham to write about London? | Barbara Speed

The risk of cringe British stereotypes felt high. But Mr Darcy fantasies aside, her new series Too Much is an affectionate sendup of the capitalI have watched all six series of Girls at least four times. I watched it as it was castigated for its unlikable characters, lack of diversity, supposed misogyny and sex that wasn’t “fun” enough, and I’ve watched it during its recent gen Z-fuelled renaissance. I never thought Lena Dunham’s show was perfect, or a window on to all of humanity. But as an arch portrait of a handful of upper-middle-class twentysomething women in New York, thousands of miles away from my reality, I’ve always believed that it couldn’t be bettered.Then Dunham moved to London and released a new show, this time about me? Too Much’s protagonists are thirtysomethings living in London: Jessica (played by Megan Stalter) moves over from New York after a breakup; her love interest Felix (Will Sharpe) is a Londoner jaded by years of struggling as a session guitarist. The stak...

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6 d. ago Netflix's Too Much star Daisy Bevan is spitting image of BBC star mum and iconic British family

Lena Dunham's new comedy-drama Too Much arrived on Netflix today - but one particular star has made fans do a double take over her resemblance to her BBC star mum

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6 d. ago Adwoa Aboah: 'I'm now more adamant about how superior women are'

The supermodel talks to Olive Pometsey about her role in Lena Dunham’s wildly anticipated new rom-com, getting sober, and becoming a mother

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6 d. ago Girls Was Sensational. Lena Dunham’s New Netflix Show May Be Its Long

Girls Was Sensational. Lena Dunham’s New Netflix Show May Be Its Long-Awaited Successor.  Slate Magazine

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6 d. ago Lena Dunham’s Netflix Show Is About an American in London. As a Brit, I Have Thoughts.

Lena Dunham’s Netflix Show Is About an American in London. As a Brit, I Have Thoughts.  Slate Magazine

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6 d. ago Too Much on Netflix review: Lena Dunham loses her generation

Lena Dunham’s first major semi-autobiographical project since HBO’s Girls is hotly anticipated. But does it live up to the hype?

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6 d. ago It’s great to have Lena Dunham’s inimitable voice back on TV, but Too Much feels strangely limited

Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe are terrific in this London-set romcom. If only it were allowed to be a bit messier

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7 d. ago ‘We were speaking English, but not the same language’: What happens when an American falls in love with a Brit

Lena Dunham’s Netflix romcom ‘Too Much’ centres on a New Yorker who gets together with a British musician, and all the cultural and linguistic differences that come with that. US writer Amanda Whiting, who met her husband at university in the UK, opens up about the experience of falling for someone in (British) English

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