Lena Dunham's Too Much Is One Of Netflix's Best Shows To Binge

Everyone is talking about Lena Dunham right now. The creator of Girls, HBO's iconic 2010s millennial comedy series, is back in the spotlight after publishing her second memoir. Published on April 14, 2026, Famesick explores Dunham's meteoric rise to fame while living with chronic illness, and the punishing tolls this took on her mind and body.

Famesick was an instant success and remains high on the New York Times bestseller list nearly a month after its publication. Unsurprisingly, millennials are the primary demographic driving the sales, as they are the generation that grew up with Dunham and Girls. Given Dunham's in-depth behind-the-scenes revelations and allegations about the show, including toxic relationships with co-star Adam Driver and showrunner Jenni Konner, this has naturally led to a trend of Girls rewatches.

However, fans may also be curious about Dunham's other projects. In Famesick, Dunham is explicit about her post-Girls career difficulties. Though her second TV series, an HBO comedy called Camping, was canceled after one season following abysmal critical reception and low viewership, Dunham found her footing again when she directed the pilot of HBO's acclaimed finance drama, Industry.

However, arguably Dunham's best work after Girls is the underrated Netflix series Too Much. Premiering July 2025, Hacks' Megan Stalter leads the Too Much cast as Jessica Salmon, a struggling thirtysomething who impulsively moves to London following a traumatic breakup. Across the pond, Jessica finds love again with Felix Remen (The White Lotus's Will Sharpe), a musician who's arguably just as much of a mess as she is. The series has Girls' fingerprints all over it, but is its own unique entity that only could have come from Lena Dunham.

Too Much Has The Messiness Of Girls With The Perfect Amount Of Whimsy

Girls was such a polarizing show because of the "unlikable" main characters, but for diehard fans, that was the point. There are myriad series with cookie-cutter, flattering portrayals of millennials, but Lena Dunham's show was a warts-and-all depiction of being a twentysomething in the 2010s struggling to establish a career in the midst of an economic downturn.

Struggling is key here because when we're struggling, we're at our messiest, which often leads to bad decisions and questionable behavior. This is what Too Much is all about.

In many ways, Jessica Salmon is a sympathetic protagonist. Many of us can relate to a treasured ex moving on with someone we deem more attractive and successful than we are. However, what isn't so relatable is breaking and entering into said ex's apartment in the middle of the night to berate him and his new girlfriend.

Yes, Jessica is a "work in progress" defined by her "too much" behavior. However, she is refreshingly self-aware about it. She isn't quiet and apologetic about her flaws, and to those who call her out, she makes excellent points about men rarely being judged for the same behavior. If Girls picked up a decade after the series finale, it's easy to imagine Hannah Horvath expressing a similar sentiment.

However, whereas Girls is defined by its gritty cynicism, Too Much is whimsical and hopeful. Though she may stumble more than she triumphs, Jessica gets the romantic London adventure she desires — and deserves. This is what makes Too Much work. Girls is an honest portrayal of what complicated millennial adulthood is like, but we also want to believe that a happily ever after is possible too. Jessica tells us it is.

Why Too Much Ended After One Season

Too Much may not share Girls' pop culture icon status, but it still performed well with critics, earning a perfectly respectable 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. However, despite Too Much being Lena Dunham's most acclaimed project since her original HBO series, Too Much was not renewed for a season 2. Variety reported that Too Much was always intended to be a limited series, with Dunham saying, "It was meant to feel like a classic transatlantic love story, but with time to really dig into the complexities that a film doesn’t have the space for."

Besides, even if Dunham had wanted to make more seasons of Too Much, there's every chance Netflix would have canceled it anyway. Upon its premiere, Too Much only lasted for a single week in Netflix's global top 10 streaming chart of English-language TV shows. Though it performed better in some individual countries, these aren't heavy enough numbers for the series to compete on the streaming platform.

Fortunately, without spoiling Too Much's ending, the final episode indeed ends on a definitive note, so viewers can safely invest time in the series without the fear of being stuck on a cliffhanger. At just 10 episodes, this makes Too Much the perfect binge — especially for those who just finished Famesick and want more Lena Dunham in their lives.