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Premiere date and first look at Netflix's Lena Dunham's Too Much

Call Your Girlfriends (And All Your Other Friends) – Lena Dunham is Returning to Television.

Lena Dunham’s upcoming project is Too Much, a romantic comedy series she’s co-creating, fittingly enough, with her husband Luis Felber. The 10-episode series follows Jessica, played by comedienne Megan Stalter (Hacks), a New Yorker who moves to London after a painful breakup. There, she meets Felix, played by Will Sharpe (The White Lotus). The pair develop a bond that surprises Jessica…but is impossible to ignore.

Too Much

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“This is a show that is very close to my heart — created with my husband Luis, cast with my favorite 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.”

For Stalter, the project was also personal, considering how much she saw herself in the character. “Jessica and I both wear our hearts on our sleeve,” says the series’ star. “We’re emotional, we’re dramatic, we’re weird, and remain that way as adults.”

We know who else will be joining Dunham, Felber, Stalter and Sharpe on their Too Much adventure. Andrew Rannells, who starred in Dunham’s Emmy-nominated series Girls, Janicza Bravo, who worked with Dunham on the comedy Sharp Stick, Heartstopper principal Stephen Fry and many more are also in supporting roles.

New York workaholic Jessica is left reeling after the relationship she thought would last forever shatters. “Every block in New York tells a story of her own bad behavior,” the synopsis reads, and she’s left isolated from everyone she knows. Her solution is to shake things up and take a job in jolly old London. While she plans to live a solitary life like a Brontë sister, everything changes when she meets Felix. He’s “less Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and more Hugh Grant’s drunken roommate.”

Jessica and Felix's impossible-to-ignore bond creates more problems than it solves. They soon have to wonder if Americans and Brits speak the same language - especially when it comes to the mysteries of the heart.

Too Much is available to stream on Netflix from Thursday, July 10. Check out more first photos below.