Netflix Announces New Romantic Comedy Series 'Too Much' From Award-Winning Writer, Director, Producer and Actor Lena Dunham

Netflix has announced Too Much, a new rom-com series created by talented power couple Lena Dunham and Attawalpa. Too Much will be produced by Working Title Television and Lena Dunham’s Good Thing Going. Featuring original music by Attawalpa, Luis Felber’s band with musical collaborator Matt Allchin.

The ten-episode show follows Jessica, portrayed by comedian Megan Stalter, a New Yorker who heads to London in the wake of a painful breakup. There, she meets Felix, played by White Lotus’ Will Sharpe. The pair build a connection that surprises Jessica… but is impossible to ignore.

“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 told Netflix in December 2023. “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.”

Stalter and Sharpe lead as Too Much’s romantic heroes. The rest of the cast includes:
• Adèle Exarchopoulos (Passages)
• Adwoa Aboah (Top Boy)
• Andrew Rannells (GIRLS5EVA)
• Daisy Bevan (The Alienist)
• Dean-Charles Chapman (1917)
• Emily Ratajkowski (Gone Girl)
• Janicza Bravo (Sharp Stick)
• Kaori Momoi (The Brightest Roof in the Universe)
• Leo Reich (Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!)
• Michael Zegen (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
• Prasanna Puwanarajah (The Crown)
• Rhea Perlman (Cheers)
• Richard E. Grant (Saltburn)
• Rita Wilson (Sleepless in Seattle)
• Stephen Fry (The Dropout)

About the Show

Jessica is a New York workaholic in her mid-thirties, reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows. When every block in New York tells a story of her own bad behaviour, the only solution is to take a job in London, where she plans to live a life of solitude like a Bronte sister. But when she meets Felix – who is less Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and more Hugh Grant’s drunken roommate – she finds that their unusual connection is impossible to ignore, even as it creates more problems than it solves. Now they have to ask themselves: do Americans and Brits actually speak the same language? From the creator of Girls and the producers of Love Actually, Too Much is an ex-pat rom-com for the disillusioned who wonder if true love is still possible, but sincerely hope that it is.

Read more on Netflix here.