Dunham’s female characters are disappointed by sex because they are looking for love, and frightened of love because they only have the language for sex.

Too Much
NETFLIX

It’s been nearly 15 years since Lena Dunham’s Girls hit the small screen: its funny, shocking depiction of sexual exploits among American friends in their early twenties was radical in 2012 but now seems almost quaint. Dunham had only just graduated when she wrote Girls, basing it on her own friends and putting herself in the touching if maddening lead role.

Dunham has moved to London and now returns with a new series, Too Much, set in the city. What could possibly be “too much” for the creator of Girls? The answer is more of the same – but with pubs and unconvincing cockney accents.

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