Lena Dunham’s new Netflix show “Too Much” is officially for the loud, messy, complicated Jewesses! At a recent panel for the Tribeca Film Festival, the “Girls” creator said of “Too Much,” “I have wanted to make a romantic comedy about what happens when a loud, messy, complicated Jewess descends on a city of deeply repressed people.”
Lena, respectfully, what have you been waiting for?!
Ever since “Too Much” was first announced back in January, we’ve known that the show would be semi-autobiographical; it focuses on a 30-something woman named Jess (Meg Stalter) moving to London after a big break-up and immediately meeting and falling for a chaotic musician named Felix (Will Sharpe). But this is the first official confirmation that Jewishness would play a role in the show. (Jess is lightly based on Dunham and Dunham is Jewish.)
Based on Rhea Perlman’s performance in the trailer as main character Jess’s grandma, however, we definitely had our suspicions…
Plus, Netflix released more in-depth character descriptions yesterday which confirm that Jess’s ex Zev (Michael Zegen) is also Jewish. “Zev was Jess’ partner for seven years until he dumped her for a knitwear influencer named Wendy Jones,” Brookie McIlvaine writes for Tudum. “Zev is the platonic ideal of the nice guy who talks about generational Jewish trauma and wears his feminism like a badge.” Sounds like a classic NJB if we’ve ever heard of one.
So… knowing that this show is about a loud, messy, complicated Jewess… does that mean that “Too Much” is the successor to “Broad City”? And, like “Broad City,” is part of the same TV genre as “The Nanny”?
Kein yehi ratzon, may it be so.
