00:00If you've ever romanticized moving abroad and finding the perfect English gentleman,
00:03Lena Dunham's new show, Too Much, is here to give you a much-needed wake-up call.
00:07While rom-coms have historically shown fun-loving women falling for high-flying,
00:10respectable British boyfriends, the girl's creator is painting a more realistic picture
00:14of British men with all their messiness on full display.
00:16While the main character, Jessica, says she's searching for her Hugh Grant,
00:19she instead ends up with Felix, a struggling indie musician she meets in a pub toilet.
00:23He stays up all night and sleeps in all day, he jumps from entanglement to entanglement,
00:26and he doesn't know the difference between polyamory and monogamy.
00:29But he's also interesting and kind to her and likes her weird dog.
00:32In a society that is currently pushing tradwife conservatism onto women
00:35and hustle culture red pill content onto men, Too Much subverts online messaging about relationships
00:40by presenting a realistic story of two flawed 30-somethings just trying to find their way through.
00:44Most importantly, it finally shows us the frazzled English man
00:47after years of women being written as the only ones without their shit together.
00:50Chaotic, heartfelt, and cringecore at times, this is a series for anyone who has ever fallen for the myth
00:55of the upstanding English gentleman or simply enjoys a show with a stacked transatlantic cast.
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