With Netflix's "Too Much," Lena Dunham makes a successful romcom comeback

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In 2012, Lena Dunham entered the feminist fiction world with Girls , a bold, vaguely autobiographical and, above all, resolutely political portrait of eighty-somethings in New York, which aired on HBO until spring 2017, a few months before the Weinstein affair and the #MeToo wave broke. Today, the young woman is collaborating with Netflix, after a few media setbacks and several coolly received projects. One might be tempted to draw conclusions about the reluctance of broadcasters who were once Eldorados of creativity, but it has been several years since HBO no longer has the monopoly on radicalism.

In the absence of reconnecting with the channel that made her successful, Lena Dunham has the opportunity here to reconnect with her audience, who should not remain indifferent to the charm of this romantic comedy that draws on the worlds of Girls , Notting Hill (1999) and Jane Austen (1775-1817). It begins, like all romantic comedies, with a breakup that goes badly. Abandoned by her lover in favor of an influencer, Jessica (Megan Stalter), in her thirties, leaves New York for London, with only a particularly ugly dog ​​for company and the feeling of having sabotaged her career as a director.

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