Megan Stalter and Will Sharpe to Star in Rom-Com Series ‘Too Much’ on Netflix

A new rom-com series is coming to Netflix.

The streaming service announced Megan Stalter (Hacks) and Will Sharpe (The White Lotus) Too Much.

Writer, director, producer, and actor Lena Dunham and husband Luis Felber created the 10-part series set in London.

Dunham will write and direct all ten 30-minute episodes. The series follows Jessica, “a New York workaholic in her mid-thirties, reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows.” She meets Felix when she takes a job in London.

Stalter will play the lead role of Jessica Salmon, with Sharpe starring as Felix Remen.

The synopsis for Too Much reads as follows:

Jessica is a New York workaholic in her mid-thirties, reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows. When every block in New York tells a story of her own bad behaviour, the only solution is to take a job in London, where she plans to live a life of solitude like a Bronte sister.

But when she meets Felix – who is less Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and more Hugh Grant’s drunken roommate – she finds that their unusual connection is impossible to ignore, even as it creates more problems than it solves. Now they have to ask themselves: do Americans and Brits actually speak the same language?

From the creator of Girls and the producers of Love Actually, Too Much is an ex-pat rom-com for the disillusioned who wonder if true love is still possible, but sincerely hope that it is.

The character description says, “If you’d met Jessica ten years ago, you would have been blinded by her inner light.” 

“But life has taken her on a walkabout, when she thought she was just taking a quick jog. Felix upends all her expectations, but it turns out that trusting someone is scarier than trusting no one.” 

Meanwhile, Felix is described as “a very different kind of 35.” He acts “eternally 18, dressed like a punk elf, running as fast as he can from a trauma he can’t name, sleeping with every woman who stays in the bar past closing time and waking up wondering why he can’t just enjoy a night alone.”

The male lead was born in the UK and raised in various English boarding schools and with his extended family in Japan. So “he feels neither here nor there. Making music is his only consolation – music that no one listens to,” per Felix’s description.

Too Much will begin production in the UK in 2024.

“This is a show that is very close to my heart – created with my husband Luis, cast with my favourite actors – the geniuses that are Meg and Will, along with a bevy of friends – and partnering again with Working Title, who are behind the romantic comedies that formed me,” co-creator, writer, and director Lena Dunham said.

“Netflix has been so deeply supportive of the vision, which is to create a romantic comedy that makes us root for love, brings joy but also has the jagged edges of life,” Dunham added.

Working Title Television, which is part of Universal International Studios, and Lena Dunham’s Good Thing Going produces Too Much. Camilla Bray produces and Lena Dunham, Luis Felber, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Michael P. Cohen, Surian Fletcher-Jones, and Bruce Eric Kaplan executive produce.

Too Much will also feature original music from Felber.

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Too Much will stream on Netflix.

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