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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Too Much

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.510.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When your long-term boyfriend leaves you for an Instagram influencer, what can you do? In the new Netflix romantic comedy series Too Much, the answer is to go to London for work, and meet a struggling musician who happens to be very, very handsome with a life almost as messy as yours. Starring Meg Stalter and Will Sharpe, and co-created by Lena Dunham, it features a cast full of comedy MVPs, a meet-cute, and a very unusual dog.

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When your long-term boyfriend leaves you for an Instagram influencer, what can you do?

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In the new romantic comedy series Too Much, the answer is to go to London for work and meet a struggling musician who happens to be very, very handsome with a life almost as messy as yours.

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The Netflix show was created by Lena Dunham and her composer husband, loosely inspired

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by their own story. Too Much features a cast full of comedy MVP's, a meat cute, and a very

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unusual dog. I'm Aisha Harris. And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about Too Much

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on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

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