2 h. 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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2 h. 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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13 h. 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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24 h. 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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25 h. 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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25 h. 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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26 h. 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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28 h. 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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30 h. 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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42 h. ago Too Much: Lena Dunham’s love letter to London, romance and the messiness of being a woman

Too Much: Lena Dunham’s love letter to London, romance and the messiness of being a woman  The Conversation

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42 h. ago Small screen, big investment: TV episodes have become way too long

Episodes of The Bear, Stranger Things and Lena Dunham’s new show Too Much are stretching the limits of television and reducing our enjoyment in the processThe big debate over The Bear – apart from the one about whether it’s still any good or not, which is another matter entirely – regards its genre. Once the darling of the Emmys, The Bear initially called itself a comedy, despite not really having any jokes or levity or fun in it. And this was down to some bad maths about its duration. The Bear was a half-hour show, and sitcoms are half-hour shows, therefore The Bear must be a sitcom.However, in its fourth season, The Bear was no longer a half-hour show. Of its 10 new episodes, none are less than 30 minutes long. True, one is 31 minutes and three more scrape in under 35 minutes. But one is 38 minutes long, two more stretch on for 40 or more, and one somehow manages to be one hour and 11 minutes long. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Rita Wilson and Rhea Perlman reveal their experience working with Lena Dunham on Too Much

Megan Stalter leads Dunham’s new romcom series alongside Will Sharpe

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44 h. ago Small talk with strangers is actually really good for us as we feel 'valued'

Sussex University experts studied 200 people having small talk conversations every day for a week and found surprising results - including better moods

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54 h. ago Fantasy v reality: Lena Dunham's Too Much is a new spin on the London romcom

Fantasy v reality: Lena Dunham's Too Much is a new spin on the London romcom  Sky News

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69 h. ago Why Lena Dunham 'broke up with New York' and made London her home

Why Lena Dunham 'broke up with New York' and made London her home  Yahoo

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3 d. ago Billie Eilish review – pop’s sharpest commentator plays with fame’s power dynamics

OVO Hydro, GlasgowThere’s nowhere for Eilish to hide as she balances intimacy and spectacle, filming her screaming fans as she paces a stage akin to a boxing ringBillie Eilish’s face is blown up across a four-sided, NBA-style jumbotron. Below, tracked by camera crews, she prowls a bare stage akin to a boxing ring – a rectangle slapped in the middle of the arena, fans everywhere she turns. Such media-heavy, mega-watt staging is immediately at odds with ambiguous opener Chihiro: “You won’t forget my name, not today, not tomorrow, kinda strange, feelin’ sorrow,” she murmurs, featherlight, over distant, rumbling subwoofer and watery electric guitar.The challenge for Eilish’s arena tours has always been to balance her talent for intimacy with her clear interest in spectacle. It’s unfortunate but perhaps inevitable that the intricate production quirks of tracks such as Lunch and Wildflower get lost in the mix tonight, with just the drums pounding through, but she compensates with astute t...

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4 d. ago This week’s TV: Lena Dunham’s ‘Too Much,’ Bono and Sting look back at Live Aid, and more

This week’s TV: Lena Dunham’s ‘Too Much,’ Bono and Sting look back at Live Aid, and more  The Boston Globe

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4 d. ago Lena Dunham on fatphobia, dating advice and her new London rom

Lena Dunham on fatphobia, dating advice and her new London rom-com  Yahoo

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4 d. ago Too Much star Megan Stalter reveals she was terrified when Lena Dunham first messaged her

‘Panic set in,’ actor said

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5 d. ago ‘We’re told to be polite and small and dainty. But that’s not me!’: Megan Stalter on starring in Lena Dunham’s new romcom, Too Much

Her kooky online skits brought her viral fame and a breakout role in HBO’s Hacks. Then Lena Dunham came calling with the job of a lifetime. Is the actor ready to take centre stage?When Lena Dunham messaged, Megan Stalter lost it. “Like d’uhh,” Stalter is explaining – delighting, really. “Who wouldn’t? I was at home: this really bad apartment in Laurel Canyon [in the Hollywood Hills]. The area is haunted, and it was actually a really scary building, and nothing ever got fixed because apparently in the lease I signed they didn’t have to repair anything! I don’t actually live there now ” Stalter, 34, has a tendency to wander off on tangents. So Dunham?“OK yes, so we were just about to start filming Hacks again.” The wildly popular, 48-times-Emmy-nominated HBO comedy in which Stalter plays nepo-baby Kayla, a chaotic and kind-hearted talent agent, her total-commitment-to-the-bit characterisation making her a breakout star. “And there Lena was in my DMs.” Stalter opene...

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